About Me

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Before joining Ben-Gurion University I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Toronto, and a faculty affiliate researcher at the Vector Institute. 

My research objective is to allow artificial decision making agents to act reliably and efficiently, by learning and adapting, while leveraging prior knowledge such as models and constraints. My work attempts to balance between model-based and model-free approaches, by bringing together tools from reinforcement learning, automated planning and optimal control theory.

I am also interested is in the domain of Intelligent transportation where I attempt to apply the theoretical ideas on large scale transportation networks. Using the problem structure and model, while adapting online using multi agent reinforcement learning (MARL) tools we are able to scale up solutions, and efficiently manage large networks.