Roni Stern
Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Research Interests
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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.
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Three papers accepted to AAMAS 2026! "Online Learning of Numeric Action Models for Planning" with Argaman Mordoch, Yarin Benyamin, Shahaf Shperberg, and Brendan Juba; "The Reachability Objective in Multi-Agent Path Finding" with Noy Gabay, Jonathan Morag, and Ariel Felner; and "Privacy Preserving Multi Agent Path Finding" with Rotem Lev Lehman and Guy Shani.
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Gave a tutorial on "Learning Domain Models for Planning" at AAAI 2026 with Leonardo Lamanna and Christian Muise. See the website here. It was fun!
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Two papers accepted to AAAI 2026! "Blue-Sky: Multi-Agent Path Finding with Unassigned Agents (MAPFUA)" with Ariel Felner, and "Robust Multiagent Combinatorial Path Finding" with Yehonatan Kidushim, Avi Natan, and Meir Kalech.
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Honored to have been elected as the ECAI 2027 Co-Program Chair.
Current Roles
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Faculty member at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences in Ben Gurion University (BGU)
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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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Learning action models for planning in a multi-agent system. Funded by the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF). ​
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AI methods for improving Software Quality. Funded by the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
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Automated diagnosis of computer networks. Funded by the Israeli Ministry of Innovation, in collaboration with Ceragon Inc.
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Multi-Agent Path Finding on Dense Environments with Unassigned Agents, funded by the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
Contact me at sternron@bgu.ac.il
Two former students recieving their Ph.D.: Dr. Dor Atzmon and Dr. Ilya Leybovitch. Dor is current af faculty member in Bar-Ilan University and Ilya is teaching courses at Ben Gurion University while holding a researcher position at a tech company.
The Online Hebrew Intro to AI Course
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Everyone is invited 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.
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For educators: feel free to use this resource in your class.