• Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, 2015
  • M.S. in Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, 2012
  • B.S. in Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, 2011

Research Interests

    • Combinatorial search
    • Multiagent route assignment
    • Game theory
    • Flow and convex optimization
    • Multiagent Modeling and Simulation
    • Traffic Management and Traffic optimization application
    • Artificial Intelligence

Awards & Honors

  • Outstanding Paper Award, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016
  • Dean Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Student, Ben-Gurion University, 2015
  • Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, 2012

Selected Publications

  • Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, and Nathan R. Sturtevant, "Conflict-based search for optimal multi-agent pathfinding," Artificial Intelligence 219 (2015): 40-66.
  • Guni Sharon, Michael W. Levin, Josiah P. Hanna, Tarun Rambha, Stephen D. Boyles and Peter Stone, "Network-wide Adaptive Tolling for Connected and Automated Vehicles," Transportation Research Part C, September, 2017.
  • Guni Sharon, Michael Albert, Tarun Rambha, Stephen Boyles and Peter Stone, "Traffic Optimization for a Mixture of Self-interested and Compliant Agents," 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), 2018.
  • Robert C. Holte, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon, Nathan R. Sturtevant and Jingwei Chen, "MM: A Bidirectional Search Algorithm that is Guaranteed to Meet in the Middle," Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 252 (2017): 232-266.