GUNI SHARON EDUCATION APPOINTMENTS

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1 GUNI SHARON EDUCATION PhD. Information Systems Engineering Advisor: Professor Ariel Felner Thesis title Novel Search Techniques for Path Finding in Complex Environment "Darom" Graduate Research Scholarship MSc. Information Systems Engineering; graduation with honors Advisor: Professor Ariel Felner Thesis title Optimally Solving Multiagent Pathfinding The Harbor Foundation Graduate Research Scholarship BSc. Information Systems Engineering; graduation with honors The South African Zionist Federation Scholarship November-2015 March-2013 August-2011 APPOINTMENTS Texas A&M University Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Develop and implement innovative instructional methods. Develop professional logistics to improvise student performance. Guide, lead and mentor students in research projects. Evaluate, monitor and mentor student academic progress. Create, innovate and implement career-enhancement programs and activities. Supervise and support teaching assistants. Participate in departmental and college activities. Serve and support functional activities of departmental committees. Assess, review and evaluate student activities and progress. Post-Doctoral Researcher, Computer Science Developed, implemented, and analyzed mechanisms and protocols for traffic optimization, including, intersection management protocols and micro-tolling mechanisms for optimized network flow. College Station, TX Aug present Aug present University of Denver Denver, CO Visiting Scholar Jul Sep Developed, implemented, and analyzed a novel algorithm for solving the real-time agent-centered search problem.

2 LEADERSHIP NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Entrepreneurial leader for the CubeIT team Jan Feb Leader of the Traffic optimization research group (under TxDOT Project 6838) 6838 project title - Bringing smart transport to Texans: ensuring the benefits of a connected and autonomous transport system in Texas. Leading a research group that is focused on traffic flow optimization including 4 faculty members, 2 post-docs and 4 PhD students spanning the computer science and civil engineer departments. Provide monthly and quarterly progress reports. Aug present Co-leader of the Transportation subtheme within a UT Bridging Barriers Initiative Writing and editing research grant proposals. Recruit and manage an interdisciplinary research team. Nov present Researcher under contract for Toyota, InfoTechnology Center Co., Ltd. Aug Sep Providing quarterly progress reports including a literature review on Adaptive Traffic Signal Control Systems. Led the development of a new intersection management protocol for mixed human operated and autonomous vehicles. SELECTED AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Outstanding paper award, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Feb Dean award (Faculty of Engineering) for outstanding PhD student, BGU. May 2015 Best paper award, International Symposium on Combinatorial Search Jul TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE Texas A&M University Lecturer, Computer Science & Engineering AI-based autonomous traffic management (CSCE ) The Post-doctoral researcher Supervising undergraduate students in a research course (CS-370) College Station, TX Aug present Aug present Teaching fellow Aug Aug TA for: Introduction to Operation Systems, Operations Research, Introduction to A.I., Automata and computability Theory. 2

3 Israeli Defense Force, military service Nov Nov Head of the operations department of an artillery brigade supervising 2 soldiers PROFFESIONAL SERVICE Organizer a special session at the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM-2018) on Flow Optimization in Traffic Networks, January 2018, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Journal Reviewer IEEE Intelligent Systems (2015), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2016, 2017, 2018), Artificial Intelligence Journal (2017), Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (2018) Program Committee Member International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (2018), International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (2015,2016), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2016, 2019), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2016, 2017), AAMAS Doctoral Consortium (2018) PUBLICATIONS Google scholar h-index: 12 Number of citations: 689 Book chapters (3) Smart Transport for Cities & Nations: The Rise of Self-Driving & Connected Vehicles, Publisher: The (August 24, 2018), ISBN-10: , ISBN-13: Chapter 9: Michael W. Levin, Guni Sharon, Stephen D. Boyles, Michael Albert, Josiah P. Hanna, Peter Stone, Rahul Patel, Hagen Fritz, Tianxin Lee, Jun Liu, Aqshems Nichols, Kara Kockelman. Chapter 11: Michael W. Levin, Guni Sharon, Stephen D. Boyles, Michael Albert, Josiah P. Hanna, Peter Stone, Rahul Patel, Hagen Fritz, Tianxin Lee, Jun Liu, Aqshems Nichols, Kara Kockelman. Chapter 12: Michael W. Levin, Guni Sharon, Stephen D. Boyles, Michael Albert, Josiah P. Hanna, Peter Stone, Rahul Patel, Hagen Fritz, Tianxin Lee. Refereed Articles in Journals (5) Network-wide Adaptive Tolling for Connected and Automated Vehicles. Guni Sharon, Michael W. Levin, Josiah P. Hanna, Tarun Rambha, Stephen D. Boyles and Peter Stone. In Transportation Research Part C, September, MM: A Bidirectional Search Algorithm That Is Guaranteed to Meet in the Middle. Robert C. Holte, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon, Nathan R. Sturtevant and Jingwei Chen. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 252 (2017) ,

4 Conflict-based search for optimal multi-agent pathfinding. Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, and Nathan R. Sturtevant. In Artificial Intelligence 219 (2015): , Enhanced Partial Expansion A*. Meir Goldenberg, Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Guni Sharon, Nathan R Sturtevant, Robert C Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 50 (2014) , The Increasing Cost Tree Search for Optimal Multiagent Pathfinding. Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Meir Goldenberg and Ariel Felner. In Artificial Intelligence 195 (2013): , Peer-reviewed conference proceedings (18) DyETC: Dynamic Electronic Toll Collection for Traffic Congestion Alleviation. Haipeng Chen, Bo An, Guni Sharon, Josiah P. Hanna and Peter Stone. The 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), Traffic Optimization for a Mixture of Self-interested and Compliant Agents. Guni Sharon, Michael Albert, Tarun Rambha, Stephen Boyles and Peter Stone. The 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), Real-time Adaptive Tolling Scheme for Optimized Social Welfare in Traffic Networks. Guni Sharon, Josiah P. Hanna, Tarun Rambha, Michael W. Levin, Michael Albert, Stephen D. Boyles and Peter Stone. In the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017), Multirobot symbolic planning under temporal uncertainty. Shiqi Zhang, Yuqian Jiang, Guni Sharon and Peter Stone. In the Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 17), Search-Based Optimal Solvers for the Multi-Agent Pathfinding Problem: Summary and Challenges. Ariel Felner, Stern Roni, Eyal Shimony, Eli Boyarski, Meir Goldenerg, Guni Sharon, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Glenn Wagner, and Pavel Surynek. In the Proceedings of the 10th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS 17), 2017 Bidirectional Search That Is Guaranteed to Meet in the Middle Robert Holte, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon and Nathan Sturtevant. In the Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), This paper won the "outstanding paper award" out of 2200 submissions. Multi-Agent Path Finding with Payload Transfers and the Package-Exchange Robot-Routing Problem. 4

5 Hang Ma, Craig Tovey, Guni Sharon, T. K. Satish Kumar and Sven Koenig. In the Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), ICBS Improved Conflict-based Search algorithm for Multi-Agent Pathfinding. Eli Boyarski, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon and Roni Stern. In the Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference (IJCAI 15), Multi-Agent Pathfinding as a Combinatorial Auction. Ofra Amir, Guni Sharon and Roni Stern. In the Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), Don't Split, try to Work It Out: Bypassing Conflicts in Multi-Agent Pathfinding. Eli Boyarski, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon and Roni Stern. In the Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 15), Exponential deepening A* for real-time agent-centered search. Guni Sharon, Ariel Felner and Nathan Sturtevant. In the Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14), Suboptimal variants of the conflict-based search algorithm for the multi-agent pathfinding problem. Max Barer, Guni Sharon, Roni Stern and Ariel Felner. In the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS 14), Online Detection of Dead States in Real-Time Agent- Centered Search. Guni Sharon, Ariel Felner, Nathan Sturtevant. In the Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS 13), Conflict-based search for multi-agent path finding. Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner and Nathan Sturtevant. In the Proceedings of the 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Meta-Agent Conflict-Based Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding. Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, Nathan Sturtevant. In the Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS 12), 2012 Best paper award for SOCS Partial-Expansion A* with Selective Node Generation. Ariel Felner, Meir Goldenberg, Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Tal Beja, Nathan R Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer, Robert Holte. In the Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Pruning Techniques for the Increasing Cost Tree Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Pathfinding. Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Meir Goldenberg and Ariel Felner. In the Proceedings of the 3ed Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS 11),

6 The Increasing Cost Tree Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Pathfinding. Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Meir Goldenberg and Ariel Felner. In the Proceedings of the 22th International Joint Conference (IJCAI 11), Technical reports, workshop papers, and short papers in conferences (6) An Assessment of Autonomous Vehicles: Traffic Impacts and Infrastructure Needs. Dr. Kara Kockelman, Dr. Stephen Boyles, Dr. Peter Stone, Dr. Dan Fagnant, Rahul Patel, Michael W. Levin, Dr. Guni Sharon, Michele Simoni, Dr. Michael Albert, Hagen Fritz, Rebecca Hutchinson, Prateek Bansal, Gleb Domnenko, Pavle Bujanovic, Bumsik Kim, Elham Pourrahmani, Sudesh Agrawal, Tianxin Li, Josiah Hanna, Aqshems Nichols and Dr. Jia Li. Technical Report , The Center for Transportation Research., Bringing Smart Transport to Texans: Ensuring the Benefits of a Connected and Autonomous Transport System in Texas. Dr. Kara Kockelman, Dr. Stephen Boyles, Paul Avery, Dr. Christian Claudel, Lisa Loftus-Otway, Dr. Daniel Fagnant, Prateek Bansal, Michael W. Levin, Dr. Yong Zhao, Dr. Jun Liu, Lewis Clements, Wendy Wagner, Dr. Duncan Stewart, Dr. Guni Sharon, Dr. Michael Albert, Dr. Peter Stone, Josiah Hanna, Rahul Patel, Hagen Fritz, Tejas Choudhary, Tianxin Li, Aqshems Nichols, Kapil Sharma and Michele Simoni. The Center for Transportation Research., A Protocol for Mixed Autonomous and Human-Operated Vehicles at Intersections. Guni Sharon and Peter Stone. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Agent-based modeling of urban systems (ABMUS- 2017), May Awarded best paper for ABMUS-17 Delta-Tolling: Adaptive Tolling for Optimizing Traffic Throughput. Guni Sharon, Josiah Hanna, Tarun Rambha, Michael Albert, Peter Stone, Stephan Boyles. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2016). Partial Domain Search Tree for Constraint-Satisfaction Problems. Guni Sharon. Proceeding of the 6th In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, short paper, SoCS Partial Domain Search Tree for Constraint-Satisfaction Problems. Guni Sharon, Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Nathan Sturtevant, In Proceedings of the late-breaking paper track of AAAI