Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Robots
Plan & Goal Recognition
Multi-Robot Systems
Cognitive Modeling
Molecular Robots (Nanobots)

Projects
Chairing BISFAI 2019: The oldest AI conference in Israel(June 2-3, 2019)
ISF Smart Swarms Center
Plan recognition by mirroring
The Rivendell search engine
The Tolkien Project: Programmable nano-robots

I Chair the Bar Ilan University Robotics Consortium. In the MAVERICK research group, where we seek to understand artificial social intelligence - multi-agent and multi-robot systems, teamwork and coordination, behavior and plan recognition, and modeling social behavior. We investigate artificial mechanisms that allow the robot mind to perceive, reason about, and interact with other minds. This leads us through research in plan-, intent- and goal- recognition, multi-robot teams and swarms, molecular robots (nanobots), and recently, hybrid swarms of robots and locust.

I am a co-founder and former CTO of Bladeranger (TASE:BLRN), which manufactures robots for cleaning rooftop solar panels. I serve on the advisory boards of Intuition Robotics, and Carbyne.

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I was awarded an IBM faculty award and top places at international robotics competitions. I served as the program chair of the 2008 Israeli Conference on Robotics, and the program co-chair of the 2010 International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), and the 2016 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). I have served on the international executive bodies of IFAAMAS (International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) and AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence). I am the author or co-author of over 150 publications and 6 patents. I am the 2013 recipient of the Israeli national Landau Prize in exact sciences.