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Higher Education

• Ph.D. in computer science at Ben-Gurion University, under the guidance of Prof. Eyal Shimony.
• M.Sc. (summa cum laude) in Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, supervised by Prof. Eyal Solomon Shimony.
• B.Sc. (summa cum laude) in Software Engineering, Ben-Gurion University.

Work experience

• 2021-Today: Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin.
• 2015-2021: Research student and Lecturer/TA at the CS Department of Ben-Gurion University

• 2014-2015: Software Developer at Applied Materials Israel

• 2017-2021: Ph.D candidate in Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, supervised by Prof. Eyal Solomon Shimony. Dissertation topic: “Meta-level techniques for planning, search, and scheduling”.

• 2016-2017: M.Sc. (summa cum laude) in Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, supervised by Prof. Eyal Solomon Shimony.

• 2012-2016: B.Sc. (summa cum laude) in Software Engineering, Ben-Gurion University.

Awards and Honors

• Ph.D
  • Award on behalf of the Rector of Ben-Gurion University for excellence in study and research (2020).
  • Friedman award for outstanding achievements in research (2019).
  • Best paper and best student paper awards, SoCS 2019.
  • NEGEV Scholarship for Outstanding PhD students, Ben Gurion University (2017).
• M.Sc
  • Graduated with highest honors (summa cum laude).
  • Zabey award for an excellent master’s thesis in: Physics, Computer Science, and Math (2019).
  • Friedman award for outstanding achievements in research (2017).
  • Award on behalf the Dean of the faculty of Natural Sciences (Ben-Gurion University) for excellence in study and research (2016).
• B.Sc
  • Graduated with highest honors (summa cum laude).
  • Award on behalf of the Rector of Ben-Gurion University for excellence in study (2016).
  • Award on behalf of the Software Engineering program chair for excellence in study (2015).
  • 1st place winner in HackIDC 2016, Israel’s leading student Hackathon. Winning project: betYOURwish (2016).
  • 1st place winner in Innovate2Educate Hackathon. Winning project: 3D AnatoMe (2015).

Noteworthy Activities and Skills

• Proficient software developer with experience in many programing languages, programming paradigm and technologies.
• Reviewing for the AI research community:
  • Conferences Program Committee (PC):
    • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • Journal Reviews:
    • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
    • Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)
    • WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Academia-Industry Collaboration

• Multi-Dimensional Metrology (MDM) consortium (2017 – 2020):
  • Developing approaches for both hyperparameter optimization, and for learning Bayesian network structures using privileged information.
  • Collaborating with Applied Materials and Nova.

Teaching (CS Department of Ben-Gurion University)

Introduction to Computer Science

Compiler Principles

Computer Architecture and System Programming Laboratory

Introduction to Artificial Intelligent

Workshop on Software Engineering Project

Publications

Monte-Carlo Tree Search using Batch Value of Perfect Information

Shahaf Shperberg, Solomon Shimony, Ariel Felner, "Monte-Carlo Tree Search using Batch Value of Perfect Information." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2017, Sydney, Australia, August 11-15, 2017, 2017.

Some Properties of Batch Value of Information in the Selection Problem (Extended Abstract)

Shahaf Shperberg, Solomon Shimony, "Some Properties of Batch Value of Information in the Selection Problem (Extended Abstract)." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017, Melbourne, Australia, August 19-25, 2017, 2017.

Some Properties of Batch Value of Information in the Selection Problem

Shahaf Shperberg, Solomon Shimony, "Some Properties of Batch Value of Information in the Selection Problem." J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2017.

Algorithm Selection in Optimization and Application to Angry Birds

Shahaf Shperberg, Solomon Shimony, Avinoam Yehezkel, "Algorithm Selection in Optimization and Application to Angry Birds." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2018, Berkeley, CA, USA, July 11-15, 2019, 2019.

Allocating Planning Effort When Actions Expire

Shahaf Shperberg, Andrew Coles, Bence Cserna, Erez Karpas, Wheeler Ruml, Solomon Shimony, "Allocating Planning Effort When Actions Expire." In the proceedings of The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2019, The Thirty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2019, The Ninth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 27 - February 1, 2019, 2019.

Enriching Non-Parametric Bidirectional Search Algorithms - Extended Abstract

Shahaf Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan Sturtevant, Solomon Shimony, Avi Hayoun, "Enriching Non-Parametric Bidirectional Search Algorithms - Extended Abstract." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SOCS 2019, Napa, California, 16-17 July 2019, 2019.

Enriching Non-Parametric Bidirectional Search Algorithms

Shahaf Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan Sturtevant, Solomon Shimony, Avi Hayoun, "Enriching Non-Parametric Bidirectional Search Algorithms." In the proceedings of The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2019, The Thirty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2019, The Ninth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 27 - February 1, 2019, 2019.

Improving Bidirectional Heuristic Search by Bounds Propagation

Shahaf Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Solomon Shimony, Nathan Sturtevant, Avi Hayoun, "Improving Bidirectional Heuristic Search by Bounds Propagation." In the proceedings of SOCS, 2019.

Bidirectional Heuristic Search: Expanding Nodes by a Lower Bound

Shahaf Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan Sturtevant, Solomon Shimony, Avi Hayoun, "Bidirectional Heuristic Search: Expanding Nodes by a Lower Bound." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020, 2020.

Multi-Directional Heuristic Search

Dor Atzmon, Jiaoyang Li, Ariel Felner, Eliran Nachmani, Shahaf Shperberg, Nathan Sturtevant, Sven Koenig, "Multi-Directional Heuristic Search." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020, 2020.

Multi-Directional Search

Dor Atzmon, Jiaoyang Li, Ariel Felner, Eliran Nachmani, Shahaf Shperberg, Nathan Sturtevant, Sven Koenig, "Multi-Directional Search." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SOCS 2020, Online Conference [Vienna, Austria], 26-28 May 2020, 2020.

On the Differences and Similarities of fMM and GBFHS

Shahaf Shperberg, Ariel Felner, "On the Differences and Similarities of fMM and GBFHS." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SOCS 2020, Online Conference [Vienna, Austria], 26-28 May 2020, 2020.

Predicting the Effectiveness of Bidirectional Heuristic Search

Nathan Sturtevant, Shahaf Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Jingwei Chen, "Predicting the Effectiveness of Bidirectional Heuristic Search." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Nancy, France, October 26-30, 2020, 2020.

Trading Plan Cost for Timeliness in Situated Temporal Planning

Shahaf Shperberg, Andrew Coles, Erez Karpas, Solomon Shimony, Wheeler Ruml, "Trading Plan Cost for Timeliness in Situated Temporal Planning." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020, 2020.

Iterative-Deepening Bidirectional Heuristic Search with Restricted Memory

Shahaf Shperberg, Steven Danishevski, Ariel Felner, Nathan Sturtevant, "Iterative-Deepening Bidirectional Heuristic Search with Restricted Memory." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SOCS 2021, Virtual Conference [Jinan, China], July 26-30, 2021, 2021.

Meta-level Techniques for Planning, Search, and Scheduling

Shahaf Shperberg, "Meta-level Techniques for Planning, Search, and Scheduling." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SOCS 2021, Virtual Conference [Jinan, China], July 26-30, 2021, 2021.

Metareasoning for Interleaved Planning and Execution

Amihay Elboher, Shahaf Shperberg, Solomon Shimony, "Metareasoning for Interleaved Planning and Execution." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SOCS 2021, Virtual Conference [Jinan, China], July 26-30, 2021, 2021.

Situated Temporal Planning Using Deadline-aware Metareasoning

Shahaf Shperberg, Andrew Coles, Erez Karpas, Wheeler Ruml, Solomon Shimony, "Situated Temporal Planning Using Deadline-aware Metareasoning." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2021, Guangzhou, China (virtual), August 2-13, 2021, 2021.

The Closed List is an Obstacle Too

Ariel Felner, Shahaf Shperberg, Hadar Buzhish, "The Closed List is an Obstacle Too." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SOCS 2021, Virtual Conference [Jinan, China], July 26-30, 2021, 2021.