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
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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
Contact me at first_name.last_name @ gmail.com
News
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ICAPS 2023 is coming! I'm honored to be one of the Program Chairs, together with Mauro Vallati and Sven Koenig. See details here.
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The paper on "Learning Safe Numeric Action Models" was accepted and presented in AAAI 2023. Joint work with Argaman Mordoch and Brendan Juba.
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The paper on "Distributed Spectrum-based Fault Localization" was accepted and presented in AAAI 2023. Joint work with Avraham Natan and Meir Kalech.
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The paper on "Multi Agent Path Finding Under Obstacle Uncertainty" was accepted to ICAPS 2023. Joint work with Bar Shofer and Guy Shani.
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The paper on "Heuristic Search For Physics-Based Problems: Angry Birds in PDDL+" was accepted to ICAPS 2023. Joint work with Wiktor Piotrowski, Yoni Sher, Sachin Grover, and Shiwali Mohan.

A picture from the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) 2019 at Napa, CA.