Alumni Ph.D. Students

Roi Yehoshua (2018)

Roi worked on adversarial robot coverage. Thesis title: Robotic Adversarial Coverage. Co-advised by Noa Agmon. Now a faculty member at Northeastern University, USA.

Mor Vered (2018)

Mor worked on plan recognition and goal recognition algorithms using mirroring, an approach inspired by the mirror neuron system in primate brains. Thesis title: Mirroring: A General Approach to Plan and Goal Recognition. Winner of Israeli Association for AI (IAAI) Best Dissertation Award 2018. Now a faculty member at Monash University, Melbourne.

Sharon Yalov-Handzel (2016)

Sharon worked on stable humanoid whole-body motion planning using novel algorithms for constrained inverse kinematics. Thesis title: Stable Humanoid Whole Body Motion Generation. Now faculty at Afeka Tel-Aviv College of Engineering.

Natalie Fridman (2013)

Natalie worked on agent-based and qualitative approaches to modeling, simulating, and predicting human crowd behavior. PhD thesis title: Modeling Crowd Behavior. M.Sc. thesis title (2007): Modeling Crowd Behavior Based On Social Comparison Theory. Now VP Research and Innovation at ImageSat International.

Elisheva Bonchek-Dokow (2012)

Elisheva has worked on modeling human intention recognition. Thesis title: Cognitive Modeling of Human Intention Recognition. Now faculty at Ashkelon Academic College.

Ariella Richardson (2011)

Ariella has worked on mining and classifying sequential data. Thesis title: Mining and Classification of Multivariate Sequential Data. Now faculty at Machon Lev/Tal at Jerusalem College of Technology. Co-advised by Sarit Kraus.

Yehuda Elmaliach (2009)

Yehuda worked on multi-robot frequency-based patrolling and surveillance, as well as single operator control of multiple robots. PhD thesis title: Multi-Robot Frequency-Based Patrolling. MSc thesis title (2006): Single Operator Control of Coordinated Robot Teams. Now the School of Computer Science at the College of Management Academic Studies. Also co-founder of Cogniteam, a startup building autonomy control software for single and multiple robots.

Dorit Avrahami-Zilberbrand (2009)

Dorit worked on extremely efficient plan recognition for detecting suspicious and anomalous behavior. PhD thesis title: Efficient Hybrid Algorithms for Plan Recognition and Detection of Suspicious and Anomalous Behavior. M.Sc. thesis title (2004): Symbolic Behavior Recognition. Now at StuccoMedia.

Noa Agmon (2009)

Noa worked on algorithms for multi-robot patrolling in adversarial settings, and on other algorithms for multi-robot systems. Thesis title: Multi-Robot Patrolling and Other Multi-Robot Cooperative Tasks: An Algorithmic Approach. Noa’s dissertation was a runner-up to the 2010 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. Now a faculty member at the Computer Science department, at Bar Ilan University. Co-advised by Sarit Kraus.

Avi Rosenfeld (2007)

Avi worked on adaptive coordination for multi-robot and multi-agent systems. Thesis title: A Study of Dynamic Coordination Mechanisms. Now faculty at Machon Lev/Tal at Jerusalem College of Technology. Co-advised by Sarit Kraus.

Yael Termin (2007)

Yael worked on color stereo perception in humans from color and black-and-white images. Thesis title: Perception of a 3D Colored Image from One Colored and One Gray-Scale Images. Now at Elisra. co-advised with Ari Z. Zivotofsky.

Meir Kalech (2007)

Meir worked on model-based diagnosis in multi-agent and multi-robot systems. Thesis title: Diagnosing Coordination Faults in Multi-Agent Systems. Now faculty at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Gery Gutnik (2006)

Gery worked on formal models and algorithms for overhearing multi-agent conversations in large-scale settings. Thesis title: Monitoring large-scale multi-agent systems using overhearing.

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