Research

My research interests lie in the interaction between humans and intelligent agents, where I work to incorporate lessons and inspirations from cognitive science, neuroscience and biology.
I am a firm believer that only by focusing on interdisciplinary studies can we achieve results that can strongly impact human life.
My PhD research focused on the field of intention recognition where I have been modeling Mirroring processes in agents in order to perform efficient, human inspired plan recognition.
I have since then begun working on Explainable AI, generating explanations built on cognitive theories, considering that these explanations need to be consumed by people and therefore
taking into account human situation awareness models. My research interests further include social human agent interaction, cognitive modeling and psychology.

Honors and Awards

• Winner of the GM Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) Outstanding Dissertation Award for the PhD Thesis, 2018.
  Winner chosen among all candidates that have submitted their dissertation between 1/1/2015 - 1/3/2018

• Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Award for Women in Mathematicaland Computing Sciences, 2018.
  Only 10 recipients competitively selected each year.
• Hanasi (the president of the university) scholarship for the PhD, 2013-2017

Outreach

• Vered, M. and Miller, T. "What Were You Thinking ?" Pursuit article, 2018.
• Pitch It Clever, 2019.

Publications

1. Pereira, R. F.,Vered, M.,, Meneguzzi, F. and Ramirez, M. "Online Probabilistic Goal Recognition over Nominal Model." To appear in the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019.
2. Vered, M., Howe, P., Miller, T., Sonenberg, L. and Velloso, E. "Demand-Driven Transparency For Monitoring Intelligent Agent." Submitted to IEEE THMS special issue on Agent and System Transparency (under review)
3. Vered, M., Pereira, R. F., Magnaguagno, M. C., Kaminka, G. A., and Meneguzzi, F. "Towards Online Goal Recognition Combining Goal Mirroring and Landmarks : Extended Abstract." In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2018
4. Kaminka, Gal A., Vered, M., and Agmon, N. "Plan Recognition in Continuous Domains." In Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018.
5. Vered, M., and Kaminka, Gal A. "Heuristic Online Goal Recognition in Continuous Domains." In Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017.
6. Vered, M., and Kaminka, Gal A. "Online Recognition of Navigation Goals through Goal Mirroring : Extended Abstract." In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2017.
7. Vered, M., Kaminka, Gal A. and Biham S. "Online Goal Recognition through Mirroring: Humans and Agents." In Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), 2016.
8. Vered, M., Kaminka, Gal A. and Biham S. "Online Goal Recognition by Mirroring in Continuous Domains." In The Fourth Workshop on Goal Reasoning (IJCAI), 2016.
9. Vered, M., and Kaminka, Gal A. "Towards Sketch Recognition By Mirroring : Extended Abstract." In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2015.
10. Vered, M., and Kaminka, Gal A. "A Computational Cognitive Model of Mirroring Processes : A Position Statement." In The AAAI Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition (AAAI), 2013.

Workshops

1. Vered, M., Pereira, R. F., Magnaguagno, M. C., Kaminka, G. A., and Meneguzzi, F. "Towards Online Goal Recognition Combining Goal Mirroring and Landmarks." PAIR workshop AAMAS-18
2. Kaminka, Gal A., Vered, M., and Agmon, N. "Plan-Recognition as Planning in Continuous and Discrete Domains." Goal Reasoning workshop IJCAI-17
3. Vered, M. "Intent Recognition Through Goal Mirroring (Doctoral Consortium)." Doctoral Consortium AAMAS-17
4. Vered, M., and Kaminka, Gal A. "Online Recognition of Navigation Goals through Goal Mirroring." ARMS workshop AAMAS-17