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)
Contact me at first_name.last_name @ gmail.com
News
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The paper "Multi-Agent Pathfinding with Continuous Time" has been accepted to the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)! joint work with Konstantin Yakovlev, Anton Andreychuk, and Dor Atzmon
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The paper "Migrating Techniques from Search-based Multi-Agent Path Finding Solvers to SAT-based Approach" has been accepted to the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)! joint work with Pavel Surynek, Eli Boyarski, and Ariel Felner
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The paper ""Privacy Preserving Planning in Stochastic Environments" has been accepted to the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems journal (JAAMAS)! joint work with Tommy Heffner and Guy Shani.
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The paper "An Impact-Driven Approach to Predict User Stories Instability" has been accepted to the Requirements Engineering (RE) journal! joint work with Arnon Sturm, Yuval Bitan, Argaman Mordoch Aloni, and Yarden Levy
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The paper "Learning Probably Approximately Complete and Safe Action Models for Stochastic Worlds" has been accepted to AAAI '22! joint work with Brendan Juba.
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Excited and honored to take the role of Associate Editor for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).

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!)