Eyal Amir -- Short Biographical Information

Eyal Amir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since January 2004. Prior to this he was a postdoctoral researcher with Stuart Russell at the computer science division at UC Berkeley (2001-2003). He received the Arthur L. Samuel award for best Ph.D. thesis (1995-2001) at the Computer science department at Stanford University, working with John McCarthy. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics and computer science from Bar-Ilan University, Israel in 1992 and 1994, respectively. His research includes reasoning and decision making with logical and probabilistic knowledge, intelligent-agent architectures, cognitive robotics, and virtual worlds.

Eyal Amir

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