Gal A. Kaminka is a professor at the computer science department, and a member of the Gonda brain research center, and the Institute for Nanotechnology, at Bar Ilan University (Israel), where he leads the MAVERICK research group. His research expertise includes multi-agent and multi-robot systems working in teams or swarms, behavior and plan recognition, and molecular robotics for medical applications.

Prof. Kaminka received his PhD at the University of Southern California (2000), and spent time as a post-doctorate fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, before joining Bar Ilan University’s computer science department in 2002. He had also spent a year as a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2011-2012).

Prof. Kaminka is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), and a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He is the 2013 recipient of the Israeli national Landau Prize in exact sciences, and author or co-author of over 200 publications and 7 patents. He co-founded Bladeranger, a company (now publicly traded) developing robots and drones for solar panel cleaning. Prof. Kaminka served as its CTO until 2022, before going back to academia. He remains active in commercializing technologies for real-world impact.

Service highlights: Chair of BISFAI 2019: The oldest AI conference in Israel (June 2-3, 2019) , Program co-chair ECAI 2016 , Program co-chair AAMAS 2010 , Associate editor for AMAI JAAMAS JAIR Commmunications of the ACM , Board of Intl. Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2008–2014) , Executive Council Association for Advancement of AI (2008–2011) ,