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Roni Stern
Date: 12/03/2012
CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date and place of birth
Military service
Address and telephone number
7/10/1980, Israel
2001-2009, last military rank: Captain
58 Tchelet st., Modi’in, Israel
+972-578577637
Email
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ben Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, Israel
Ph.D. student, ISE department
Research field: Artificial Intelligence
Advisors: Dr. Ariel Felner and Dr. Meir Kalech
Title of dissertation: “New settings for heuristic search”.
Submitted for review at October 2011.
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
M.Sc. in Computer Science
Thesis: “Finding the shortest path in physical unknown graphs”
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Cum Laude
2007-2011
2000-2001
1998-2001
AWARDS
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Kreitman post-doctoral scholarship, Ben Gurion University
Negev scholarship for Ph.D students, Ben Gurion University
Intelligence branch technological unit award for a software
project.
Ministry of Internal Security award for a research project.
IAF (Israeli Air Force) award of excellence.
IAF (Israeli Air Force) software unit award of excellence.
2011 – Today
2007 – 2011
2009
2006
2005
2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Ben Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, Israel
Instructor of the lab for the course "Introduction to Programming"
2011
Lecturer in the course “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”
2011
Teaching assistant in the following courses:
- “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”
lecturer: Dr. Ariel Felner
- “Computational Models and Algorithms”
lecturer: Dr. Ariel Felner
- “Model-Based Diagnosis”
lecturer: Dr. Meir Kalech
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
2010-2011
Teaching Assistant in the following courses:
- “Advanced Programming”, lecturer: Prof. Uri Schild
- “Programming Languages”, lecturer: Prof. Uri Schild
- “Data Structures”, lecturer: Dr. Gideon Ehrlich
- “Introduction to Object Oriented Programming”
2000-2001
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Ben Gurion University
Research project manager
Managing a research project on “Reconstruction of Hidden or
Non-existent Identities Through Automatic Social Networks’
Crawling”. The position includes managing the research and the
project budget, as well as participating in writing the grant
application. Principal Investigators: Prof. Yuval Elovici, Dr. Lior
Rokach, Dr. Ariel Felner and Dr. Rami Puzis. This research
project is funded by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce,
collaboration with Verint Inc.
IDF, Intelligence branch, technological unit
Research team leader
Leading a team of 2-4 researchers, working on technological
research in computer networks and the internet. The position
included developing algorithms in data communications,
focusing on Layer 2 and 3, developing framework for
experiments in Matlab, Python and C. The work included
collaboration with industry and academy. Also served as acting
department head for several months, which included managing
14 researchers and developers.
Israeli Air Force, software unit
2012-Now
2007-2009
Software team leader
Leading a team of 6-12 developers, developing mission critical
information system projects. Leading a complete software
development life cycle, including functional and technical design
using UML, development with various J2EE technologies and
integration with proprietary hardware.
2005-2007
Israeli Air Force, software unit
2002-2005
Software engineer
Developing several projects with J2EE technologies. The position
included algorithms and infrastructure development.
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Research assistant
Developing a decision-support system for judges. The project
was led by Prof. Uri Schild and Prof. Ruth Kannai.
2001-2004
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
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Asher Stern, Roni Stern, Ido Dagan and Ariel Felner: Efficient Search for
Transformation-based Inference, to appear in the proceedings of the Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012.
Jordan Thayer, Roni Stern, Wheeler Ruml and Ariel Felner: Faster Bounded-Cost
Search Using Inadmissible Estimates , to appear in the proceedings of the
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 201 2.
Levi Lelis, Roni Stern, Sandra Zilles, Rob Holte and Ariel Felner: Predicting Optimal
Solution Cost with Bidirectional Stratified Sampling , to appear in the proceedings of
the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 201 2.
Roni Stern, Meir Kalech and Ariel Felner: Finding Patterns in an Unknown Graph,
accepted to AI Communications journal, 2012.
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Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Meir Goldenberg and Ariel Felner: The Increasing Cost
Tree Search for Optimal Multi-agent Pathfinding, in the proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2011.
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Roni Stern, Rami Puzis and Ariel Felner: Potential search: a bounded -cost search
algorithm, in the proceedings of the International Conference on Automated
Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2011.
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Roni Stern, Ariel Felner and Robert Holte: Probably Approximately Correct Heuristic
Search, in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
(SoCS), 2011.
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Levi Lelis, Roni Stern and Shahab Jabbar i Arfaee: Predicting Solution Cost with
Conditional Probabilities, in the proceedings of the International Symposium on
Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2011.
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Roni Stern, Tamar Kulberis, Ariel Felner, Robert Holte: Using Lookaheads with
Optimal Best-First Search, in proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2010.
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Roni Stern, Meir Kalech and Ariel Felner: Searching for a k -clique in unknown
graphs, in proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
(SoCS), 2010.
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Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Alex Pomeransky: Searching for
close alternative plans. Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(JAAMAS) 14(3): 211-237 (2007)
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Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Sarit Kraus, Asaph Ben-Yair, Nathan S. Netanyahu: PHA*:
Finding the Shortest Path wit h A* in An Unknown Physical Environment. Journal of
Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 21 : 631-670 (2004)
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Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Sarit Kraus: PHA*: Performing A* in unknown physical
environments, in proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2002: 240-247
Posters and extended abstracts:
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Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Meir Goldenberg and Ariel Felner: Pruning Techniques for
the The Increasing Cost Tree Search for Optimal Multi -agent Pathfinding, in the
proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2011.
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Roni Stern and Meir Kalech: MBD Techn iques for Internet Delay Diagnosis, in the
International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), 2010
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Roni Stern, Meir Kalech and Ariel Felner: Searching for a k -clique in unknown
graphs, in proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents
Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2010
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Roni Stern, Rami Puzis and Ariel Felner: Potential Search: A New Greedy Anytime
Heuristic Search, in proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial
Search (SoCS), 2010.
Journals in preparation:
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Roni Stern, Jur van den Berg, Rami Puzis, Rajat Shah, Ariel Felner and Ken
Goldberg: On the Relation Between Non-Parametric Anytime A* and Potential-based
Bounded-Cost Search, to be submitted to Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ).
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Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Meir Goldenberg and Ariel Felner: The Increasing Cost Tree
Search for Optimal Multi-agent Pathfinding, submitted to Artificial Intelligence
Journal (AIJ).
Levi Lelis, Roni Stern, Sandra Zilles, Rob Holte and Ariel Felner: Predicting Optimal
Solution Cost with Conditional Probabilities, to be submitted to Arti ficial Intelligence
Journal (AIJ).
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER IN REFEREED CONFERENCES
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The twenty-sixth conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , 2012.
The eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS), 2012
The twenty-second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI),
2011.