Awards & Honors

Academic Awards and Scholarships

  •  1996-1999 Eshkol Fellowship for Doctorate Studies, Israeli Ministry of Science.
  •  1996 Best Paper Nomination, 1st Conference on Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, London, UK, 1996 (invited to Journal of Applied AI, special issue).
  •  1998 Intel-Dean Prize, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
  •  2000, 2001 IBM Research Scholarship, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
  •  2003 Best Paper Award, 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Melbourne, Australia.
  •  2007 Best Paper Award, 11th International Workshop Cooperative Information Agents, Delft, The Netherlands.


Industrial Awards

  •  2013 Popular Mechanics Breakthroughs, General Motors Super Cruise. Popular Mechanics


Research Grants

  •  2003 -2006 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), “The Value of Communication in Decentralized Planning and Control” (with Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein), $350K
  •  2014 – 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF), “Computational Models, Interaction Mechanisms, and Planning Algorithms for Semi-Autonomous Systems” (with Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein and Prof. Donald L. Fisher), $1.2M