Roni Stern
Systems Sciences Lab (SSL),
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Dept. of Software and Inf. Sys. Eng.
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Research Interests
I enjoy almost anything that has to do with Artificial Intelligence, but mostly work on heuristic search, multi-agent planning, automated diagnosis, learning model for planning, and using AI for better Software Engineering.
Current Roles
News
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The paper "An Impact-Driven Approach to Predict User Stories Instability" was accepted to the journal first track of Requirement Engineering (RE) 2023. Joint work with Arnon Sturm and Maxim Bragilovski.
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The paper on "Synthesizing Priority Planning Formulae for Multi-Agent Pathfinding" was accepted to Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2023. Joint work with Shway Wang, Vadim Bulitko, Taoan Huang, and Sven Koenig.
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Faculty member at the Dept. of Software and Information Systems Engineering, in Ben Gurion University (BGU)
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Vice Head of the Software Engineering program in BGU
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Associate Editor and Chair of the Award-Winning Papers track in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
Open positions
I am currently looking for motivated Ph.D. students and Post-doctoral researchers to work with me on funded projects in the following topics:
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Safe model-free planning (funded by NSF-BSF)
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Applicable, lifelong, Multi-Agent Pathfinding
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Automated generation of software requirements
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Learning action models for planning
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Contact me at first_name.last_name @ gmail.com

A picture from the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) 2019 at Napa, CA.
The Online Hebrew Intro to AI Course
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I'm delighted to invite everyone to the first online "Introduction to AI" course in Hebrew! covering the basics of classical AI, and features a team of top AI researchers including Prof. Ariel Felner, Prof. Ronen Brafman, Prof. Kobi Gal, Prof. Guy Shani, Dr. Nadav Rappapot, Dr. Dor Atzmon, and Argaman Mordoch.
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You can watch the course as part of the campus.il platform via this link or directly in YouTube via this link.