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 improved patient-provider communication and for better Software Engineering.
Current Roles
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Faculty member at the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, in Ben Gurion University
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Principal Scientist in Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
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Associate Editor for 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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Multi-agent planning (funded by ISF)
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Safe model-free planning (funded by NSF-BSF)
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Hierarchical adversarial multi-agent planning (funded by DARPA)
News
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The paper "Playing Angry Birds with a Domain-Independent PDDL+ Planner" has been accepted to ICAPS 2021 demo track! joint work with Wiktor Piotrowski, Roni Stern, Matthew Klenk, Shiwali Mohan, Jacob Le and Johan de Kleer.
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The paper "Safe Learning of Lifted Action Models" has been accepted to KR 2021! joint work with Brendan Juba and Hai Le.
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The paper "Minimal Cardinality Diagnosis in Problems with Multiple Observations" has been accepted to the Diagnostics journal! joint work with Meir Kalech and Ester Lazebnik.
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Excited and honored to take the role of Associate Editor for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
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The paper "Analysis of Classical Multi Agent Path Finding Algorithms" has been accepted to SoCS 2021! joint work with Omri Kaduri and Eli Boyarski
A picture from the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) 2019 at Napa, CA. I hope we will be able to meet in person in SoCS 2021 (although the virtual SoCS was also great!)