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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 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 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. 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. 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. Roni Stern, Ariel Felner and Robert Holte: Probably Approximately Correct Heuristic Search, in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2011. 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. 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. 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. 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) 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) 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: 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. Roni Stern and Meir Kalech: MBD Techn iques for Internet Delay Diagnosis, in the International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), 2010 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 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: 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). 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). PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER IN REFEREED CONFERENCES 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.