Research
I am interested in cooperative artificial agents, especially in the context of rebellion and disobedience in AI (RaD-AI). My long-term goal is to construct a robot that can serve as a guide robot for people with visual impairment. To achieve this goal, I investigate multi-agent problems involving goal and plan recognition, learning and adaptation, and human-robot interactions (HRI).
I am a co-chair in several recurring workshops, including Human-Interactive Robot Learning (HIRL), Workshop on Ad-Hoc Teamwork (WAHT), and Rebellion and Disobedience in AI (RaD-AI). I have also co-chaired the Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition (PAIR) workshop series, and one of the PAIR tutorial organizers that took place in AAAI'19. You can find out more resources and information about this community on the planrec website.
I am the first author of an introductory book on Symbolic Goal and Plan Recognition.
I was the general chair of the AI-HRI fall symposium in 2021. See more details on the symposium's website.
I am the program co-chair of the inagural sympoium on Technological Advancements in HRI (TAHRI).
Prior to my work at Bar Ilan University, I was working in the lab of Prof. Peter Stone on designing collaborative agents, in ad hoc teamwork scenarios, in mixed human-robot navigation, and as teachers of motor tasks to people. My PhD thesis was under the guidance of Prof. Kobi Gal, on the topic of Plan Recognition in Exploratory Domains.
Code Repositories
The code for different online plan recognition algorithms I designed can be found here:
CRADLE - Heuristic algorithm
SLIM - Lazy commitment algorithm
SPR - Active querying algorithm
Online Talks
Mirsky, R. Robots will become more active and dynamic objects. 2021. WR:UR podcast. Link (English)
Mirsky, R. Getting Academic Positions (GAP) Interview with Manuel Rigger. 2021. Link (English)
Mirsky, R. I did a PhD in computer science in order to work with human beings. 2018. Reversim Summit. Link (Hebrew)
Books
Mirsky, R., Keren, S, Geib, C. Introduction to Symbolic Plan and Goal Recognition. Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Morgan & Claypool. Link to book (for institutional subscribers)
Journal Papers
Mirsky, R., Xiao, X., Hart, J., Stone, P. [Just Accepted] Conflict Avoidance in Social Navigation - a Survey. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI).
Ghonasgi, K., Mirsky, R., Bhargava, N., Haith, A., Stone, P., Deshpande, D. 2023. Kinematic Coordinations Capture Learning during Human–Exoskeleton Interaction. Sci Rep 13, 10322. Link to Article
Mirsky, R., Galun, R., Gal, Y., Kaminka, G. Comparing Plan Recognition Algorithms through Standard Plan Libraries. Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence. 2021. Link to article
Mirsky, R. and Hibah, S. and Hadad, M. and Gorenstein, A. and Kalech, M. 2020. PhysIt: A Diagnosis and Troubleshooting Tool for Physiotherapists in Training. Diagnostics. Link to article
Mirsky, R. and Stern, R. and Gal, Y. and Kalech, M. 2019. Goal and Plan Recognition Design using Plan Libraries. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. Link to article
Mirsky, R. and Gal, Y. and Stern, R. and Kalech, M. 2018. Sequential Plan Recognition: An Iterative Approach to Disambiguating Hypotheses. Artificial Intelligence. Link to article
Mirsky, R. and Gal, Y. and Shieber, S. 2017. CRADLE: An Online Plan Recognition Algorithm for Exploratory Domains. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. Link to article
Uzan, O. and Dekel, R. and Seri, Or and Gal, Y. 2015. Plan Recognition and Visualization in Exploratory Learning Environments. AI Magazine. Link to article
Conference Papers
Amado, L., Paster, S., Fraga Pereira, R., Mirsky, R. and Meneguzzi, F. A Survey on Model-Free Goal Recognition. 2024. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI.
Mannem, S., Macke, W., Stone, P. and Mirsky, R. Exploring the Cost of Interruptions in Human-Robot Teaming. 2023. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids.
Ghonasgi, K., Mirsky, R., Haith, A., Stone, P., Deshpande, D. 2023. A Novel Control Law for Multi-joint Human-Robot Interaction Tasks While Maintaining Postural Coordination. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS.
Mirsky, R., Carlucho, I., Rahman, M.A., Fosong, E., Macke, W., Sridharan, M., Stone, P., Albrecht, S.V.. 2022. A Survey of Ad Hoc Teamwork: Definitions, Methods, and Open Problems. The 19th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS. Link to article
Ghonasgi, K., Mirsky, R., Haith, A., Stone, P., Deshpande, A. 2022. Quantifying Changes in Kinematic Behavior of A Human-Exoskeleton Interactive System. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS . Link to article
Amado, L., Mirsky, R., Meneguzzi, F. 2022. Goal Recognition as Reinforcement Learning. The 36th AAAI Conference on AI. Link to article
Ghonasgi, K., Mirsky, R., Narvekar, S., Masetty, B., Haith, A., Stone, P., Deshpande, A. 2021. Capturing Skill State in Curriculum Learning for Human Skill Acquisition. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS. Link to article
Mirsky, R., Stone P. The Seeing-Eye Robot Grand Challenge: Rethinking Automated Care, 2021. The 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Link to article
Macke, W., Mirsky, R. , Stone, P. Expected Value of Communication for Planning in Ad Hoc Teamwork. 2021. The 35th AAAI Conference on AI. Link to article
Hart, J., Mirsky, R., Xiao, X., Tejeda, S., Mahajan, B., Goo, J., Baldauf, K, Owen, S., Stone, P. 2020. Using Human-Inspired Signals to Disambiguate Navigational Intentions. International Conference on Social Robotics. ICSR. Link to article
Mirsky, R. and Macke, W. and Wang, A. and Yedidsion, H. and Stone, P. 2020. A Penny for Your Thoughts: The Value of Communication in Ad Hoc Teamwork. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI. Link to article
Mirsky, R. and Gal, Y. 2016. SLIM: A Semi-Lazy Inference Plan Recognition for Plan Recognition. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI. Link to article
Mirsky, R. and Gal, Y. and Stern, R. and Kalech, M. 2016. Sequential Plan Recognition Process. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI. Link to article
Uzan,O. and Dekel, R. and Gal, Y. 2013. Plan Recognition for ELEs Using Interleaved Temporal Search – Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED. Link to article
Tutorials and Demos
Keren, S. and Mirsky, R. and Geib, C. 2019. Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition. Tutorial in Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI. Link to slides
Mirsky, R. and Cohavi, O. and Bistritsky, A. and Levy-Tzedek, S. 2019. Hebrew Conversational Bot Enhancement for Rehabilitation Robot. Demo track on Israeli HCI Conference, IsraHCI.
Workshops and others
Rachum, R., Nakar, Y., Tomlinson, B., Alon, N., Mirsky, R. 2024. Emergent Dominance Hierarchies in Reinforcement Learning Agents . Extended abstract at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, AAMAS.
Mirsky, R., Shperberg, S., Zhang, Y., Xu, Z., Jiang, Y., Cui, J. Stone, P. Task Factorization in Curriculum Learning. 2022. Decision Awareness in Reinforcement Learning Workshop at ICML (DARL).
Xu, Z., Zhang, Y., Shperberg, S., Mirsky, R., Jiang, Y., Lio, B., Stone, P. Model-Based Meta Automatic Curriculum Learning. 2022. Decision Awareness in Reinforcement Learning Workshop at ICML (DARL).
Hanina, Y., Mirsky, R., Macke, W., Stone, P. Quantifying Human Rationality in Ad-Hoc Teamwork. 2022. AAMAS workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS).
Chonkar, P., Hemkumar, G., Wang, H., Dua, D., Gupta, S., Chan, Y. C., Hart, J., Hauser, E., Mirsky, R., Biswas, J., Jiao, J., Stone, P. Look to my Lead: Pedestrian Perceptions of a Quadruped Robot. 2022. ICRA workshop on Social Robot Navigation: Advances and Evaluation.
Amado, L., Mirsky, R., Meneguzzi, F. Goal Recognition as Reinforcement Learning. 2022. ICAPS workshop on Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL).
Vered, M., Mirsky, R., Fraga Pereira, R., Meneguzzi, F. Editorial: Advances in Goal, Plan and Activity Recognition. 2022. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Link
Amado, L., Mirsky, R., Meneguzzi, F. Learning Goal Recognition Models using Human Examples. 2022. The Human-Interactive Robot Learning (HIRL) workshop at HRI Link
Xiao, X., Hart, J., Mirsky, R. and Stone, P. Social Navigation Studies at UT Austin. 2022. The Social Navigation Symposium.
Mirsky, R. and Stone P. Intelligent Disobedience and AI Rebel Agents in Assistive Robotics. 2021. ASIMOV Workshop at the International Conference of Social Robotics, ICSR.
Hart, J., Mirsky, R., Xiao, X., Stone, P. Incorporating Gaze into Social Navigation. 2021. RSS Workshop on Social Robot Navigation.
Suriadinata, J., Macke, W., Mirsky, R., Stone P. Reasoning about Human Behavior in Ad-Hoc Teamwork. 2021. Human-AI Collaboration in Sequential Decision-Making workshop in the International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML.
Masetty, B., Mirsky, R., Deshpande, A., Mauk, M., Stone, P. Is the Cerebellum a Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Agent? 2021. Adaptive and Learning Agents workshop in the International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, AAMAS.
Suriadinata, J., Macke, W., Mirsky, R., Stone P. Reasoning about Human Behavior in Ad-Hoc Teamwork. 2021. Adaptive and Learning Agents workshop in the International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, AAMAS.
Macke, W., Mirsky, R., Stone, P. Expected Divergence Point of Plans in Ad Hoc Teamwork. 2020. Cooperative-AI workshop in the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS.
Ghonasgi, K., Mirsky, R., Masseti, B., Narvekar, S., Haith, A., Deshpande, A., Stone, P. Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Human Motor Skill Acquisition. 2020. Human-Friendly Robotics, HFR.
Ghonasgi, K., Mirsky, R., Masseti, B., Narvekar, S., Haith, A., Deshpande, A., Stone, P. Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Human Motor Skill Acquisition. 2020. Social AI for Human-Robot Interactions of Human-Care Service Robots in the International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS.
Macke, W., Mirsky, R., Stone, P. 2020. Query Content in Sequential One-shot Multi-Agent Limited Inquiries when Communicating in Ad Hoc Teamwork. Distributed Multi-Agent Planning (DMAP) workshop in the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS.
Mirsky, R. and Macke, W. and Wang, A. and Yedidsion H. and Stone, P. 2020. Value of Communication in Ad Hoc Teamwork. Plan, Activity and Intention Recognition (PAIR) workshop on Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI.
Hart, J. and Mirsky, R. and Tejeda, S. and Mahajan, B. and Goo, J. and Baldauf, K, and Owen, S. and Stone, P. 2019. Unclogging Our Arteries: Using Human-Inspired Signals to Disambiguate Navigational Intentions. AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction.
Mirsky, R. and Shalom, Y. and Majadly, A. and Gal, Y. and Puzis, R. 2019. New Goal Recognition Algorithms using Attack Graphs. Plan, Activity and Intention Recognition (PAIR) workshop on Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI.
Mirsky, R. and Galun, R. and Gal, Y. and Kaminka, G. 2018. Comparing Plan Recognition Algorithms through Standard Libraries. Plan, Activity and Intention Recognition (PAIR) workshop on Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI.
Mirsky, R. and Gal, Y. and Tolpin, D. 2017. Session Analysis using Plan Recognition. User Interfaces and Scheduling and Planning (UISP) workshop on International Conference for Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS.
Mirsky, R., Geib, C., Keren, S. 2017. Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition – Technical Report. Plan, Activity and Intention Recognition (PAIR) workshop on Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI.
Mirsky, R. and Gal, Y. and Stern, R. and Kalech, M. 2017. Plan Recognition Design. Plan, Activity and Intention Recognition (PAIR) workshop on Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI.
Mirsky, R. 2017. Plan Recognition Design (Student Abstract). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI.
Mirsky, R. and Gal, Y. and Stern, R. and Kalech,M. 2016. Sequential Plan Recognition. International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, DX.
Mirsky, R. and Gal, Y. and Stern, R. and Kalech,M. 2016. Sequential Plan Recognition. Extended abstract at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, AAMAS.
Mirsky, R. 2016. Plan Recognition in Exploratory Domains (Doctoral Consortium). International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, AAMAS.
Dekel, R. and Gal, Y. 2015. Online Plan Recognition for Exploratory Domains, Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models, at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, AAMAS.
Dekel, R. and Gal, Y. 2014. Online Plan Recognition in Exploratory Learning Environments, Workshop on Graph-based Educational Data Mining (G-EDM), at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM.