News

Oct-2025: Our paper "Comparing Deterministic and Soft Policy Gradients for Optimizing Gaussian Mixture Actors", published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), has been awarded a J2C Certification by the TMLR Editors-in-Chief.

Mar-2025: Lab director Dr. Sharon will serve as a keynote speaker (Wilson Memorial Lecture) at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (RCML).

Feb-2025: Lab director Dr. Sharon received the College of Engineering Dean Excellence Award for Assistant Professor level.

Jan-2024: Lab director Dr. Guni Sharon received the Bergmann Memorial Research Award.

Oct-2023: An interview with Lab director, Dr. Sharon, was published in WIRED Magazine. The resulting article discussed Google's AI solutions for traffic signal control optimization.

Feb-2023: Lab director Dr. Guni Sharon received the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career (CAREER) Award.

Feb-2023: Our AAAI paper "Socially Optimal Non-Discriminatory Restrictions for Continuous-Action Games" will be presented (oral presentation) during the "MAS: Mechanism Design" session at AAAI, Thursday, February 9, 9:30--10:45am. Please join us to learn more about this interesting topic.

March-2022: Lab director Dr. Guni Sharon was awarded the "AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in AAAI/IJCAI" by ArnetMiner (AMiner).

August-2021: Lab director Dr. Guni Sharon will be providing an Early-Career Spotlight Invited talk during the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21). The talk titled "Alleviating Road Traffic Congestion with Artificial Intelligence" will be provided virtually on Aug 25th at 14:30 EDT.

March-2021: Several news articles covered our research on self-optimizing signalized intersection controllers. These articles can be found on: FUTURITY KHOU-11, KBTX-TV, Настоящее Время Russian channel (our story starts on 16:25), and KAGS-TV.

August-2020: Lab members Dr. Guni Sharon received the journal of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) 2020 Prominent Paper Award for the paper "Conflict Based Seach for Optimal Multi Agent Pathfinding".

June-2020: Lab members Sheelabhadra Dey and Sumedh Pendurkar won 1st place out of 15 submissions in the data science competition hosted by TAMIDS. The TAMIDS director wrote "The winning team derived novel insights into airline performance and translated these into recommendations for business operations."

October-2019: Our lab hosted students from James Madison High School, Houston. The visiting students were excited to learn about our research and participate in demonstrations of autonomous driving, and Intelligent traffic management.

October-2019: Group member Aaron Parks-Young is set to give a talk at INFORMS-19 covering his research on Autonomous Intersection Management.

September-2019: New PhD students join our lab, James Ault and Sheelabhadra Dey. Good Luck to both!