Researcher

Subbarao Kambhampati

Subbarao Kambhampati earned a Maryland doctorate in 1989 and moved to Arizona State in 1991. His research interests include planning, machine learning and case-based reasoning. Kambhampati coauthored The Emerging Landscape of Explainable AI Planning and Decision Making with Tathagata Chakraborti and Sarath Sreedharan. The paper organizes research on explaining planning systems by techniques, users and delivery methods. His paper Can Large Language Models Reason and Plan? examines the planning and reasoning capabilities of large language models. It extends a documented career in planning into the evaluation of generative AI systems.

Works
571
Citations
10,293
h-index
50

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 1989–1991

    Doctorate and ASU

    Subbarao Kambhampati earned a Maryland doctorate in 1989 and moved to Arizona State in 1991. His research interests include planning, machine learning and case-based reasoning.

  2. 2020

    Explaining AI plans

    Kambhampati coauthored The Emerging Landscape of Explainable AI Planning and Decision Making with Tathagata Chakraborti and Sarath Sreedharan. The paper organizes research on explaining planning systems by techniques, users and delivery methods.

  3. 2024

    Language models and planning

    His paper Can Large Language Models Reason and Plan? examines the planning and reasoning capabilities of large language models. It extends his planning research into the evaluation of generative AI systems.

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  1. Subbarao Kambhampati — ASU professional biography rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu. Checked 13 October 2026.
  2. [2002.11697] The Emerging Landscape of Explainable AI Planning and Decision Making arxiv.org. Checked 13 October 2026.
  3. [2403.04121] Can Large Language Models Reason and Plan? arxiv.org. Checked 13 October 2026.