Biography:Shlomo Zilberstein

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Shlomo Zilberstein
Shlomo Zilberstein
Shlomo Zilberstein
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma mater
Known forAnytime Algorithms
Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Scientific career
Fields
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
ThesisOperational Rationality Through Compilation of Anytime Algorithms (1993)
Doctoral advisorStuart J. Russell
Websitewww.cs.umass.edu/~shlomo/

Shlomo Zilberstein (Hebrew: שלמה זילברשטיין; born 1960) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Research and Engagement in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[1] He graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science summa cum laude from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1982, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in 1993, advised by Stuart J. Russell.[2][3] He is known for his contributions to artificial intelligence, anytime algorithms, multi-agent systems, and automated planning and scheduling algorithms, notably within the context of Markov decision processes (MDPs), Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs), and Decentralized POMDPs (Dec-POMDPs).

Research

His research is in the area of artificial intelligence, specifically automated planning, in addition to decision theory, reasoning under uncertainty, heuristic search, automated coordination and communication, and reinforcement learning.[4]

He directs the Resource-Bounded Reasoning Laboratory[5] at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[6] In 2002, Daniel S. Bernstein, Robert Givan, Neil Immerman, and Shlomo Zilberstein introduced the Decentralized POMDP which extends the widely used single-agent POMDP model to a multi-agent scenario (Dec-POMDP).[7] He has also developed AI algorithms for semi-autonomous systems with potential applications to semi-autonomous cars.[8][9][10][11]

Service and awards

He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and associate editor of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.[12] Additionally, he served as chair of the conference committee for both the Twenty-Ninth and Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.[13][14] The National Science Foundation awarded Dr. Zilberstein with the RIA, CAREER, and ITR awards.[15] He was elected as a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence[16] in 2011 and of the Association for Computing Machinery[17] in 2021.

Selected publications

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