Completed Theses:
1. Israel Ben-Shachar, M.Sc. "Routing for multi-class
individual users'', May 1998. Primary supervisor: Ariel Orda,
2. Matthew Jacobson, M.Sc. "Dual-rate Markov decision
processes'', January 1999. Additional supervisor: Adam Shwartz.
3. Vladislav Zaslavski, M.Sc. "Stable control algorithms for
robotic vehicles'', March 1999.
4. Reuven Zaritski, M.Sc. "Tracking with three-dimensional
deformable contours in stereo images." December 2000.
5. Alexey Taliansky, M.Sc. "Autonomous navigation of a mobile
robot in indoor environments." January 2001.
6. Ety Izhar, M.Sc. "Rational models for abandonment from
queues." April 2001. Additional supervisor: Avishai Mandelbaum.
7. Shie Mannor, Ph.D. "Reinforcement learning in competitive
environments." May 2002. Current position: Associate Professor, EE,
Technion.
8. Amit Serebrenikov, M.Sc. "Navigation and guidance of a
man-following vehicle." December 2002. Additional supervisor: Per-Olof Guttman.
9. Ishai Menache, M.Sc. "Hierarchical algorithms for
reinforcement learning." Jan. 2003.
10. Michael Arov, M.Sc. "Rate-based flow control in ATM
networks." June 2003.
11. Eran Rippel, M.Sc. "Hierarchical algorithms for optimal
terrain-following flight trajectory generation." November 2003. Additional
Supervisor: Dr. Aharon Bar-Gill.
12. Oran
Reichman, M.Sc. "Uniqueness of the Nash Equilibrium in Competitive
Routing." December 2004.
13. Eran Pinhasov, M.Sc. "Optimal usage of color for stereo
vision." January 2005. Primary supervisor: Yehoshua Zeevi.
14. Omer Ziv, M.Sc. "Algebraic Multigrid for Reinforcement
Learning." August 2005.
15. Hillel Chapman, M.Sc. "Global Confidence-Bound Algorithms
for the Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff in Reinforcement Learning."
March 2007.
16. Michael Bozovsky, M.Sc. "PID Controller design for Time
delay Systems." May 2007.
17. Nael Hadad, M.Sc. "Intelligent software agent design for
Table Soccer." June 2007.
18. Andrey Bernstein, M.Sc. "Adaptive State Aggregation for
Reinforcement Learning." November 2007.
19. Ishai Menache, Ph.D. "Competitive Resource Allocation in
Communication Networks." December 2007. Current position: Postdoctoral
fellow, Microsoft Research.
20. Daniel Sigalov, M.Sc. "Data Association in Multi-Target
Tracking using Cross-Entropy Based Algorithms." February 2008.
21. Kiril Diagilev, M.Sc. "Reinforcement Learning with
parametric uncertainty." May 2009.
22. Maxime Cohen, M.Sc. "Network Time Synchronization using
Decentralized Kalman Filtering." October 2009.
23. Avishai Adler, M.Sc. "Flight trajectory optimization for
emergency landing." November 2009. Additional supervisor: Dr. Aharon
Bar-Gill.
24. Chanit Giat, Ph.D. "Control of Queueing Systems." May
2011. Primary supervisor: Rami Atar.
25. Dani Evgeny Pinkovich, M.Sc. "Linear Programming Algorithms
for Pairwise and Network Clock Synchronization." March 2012.
26. Kfir Yehuda Levy, M.Sc. "A Unified Framework for
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Options." July 2012.
27. David Erdos, M.Sc. "Minumum-Fuel UAV Trajectories,"
October 2012.
28. Andrey Bernstein, Ph.D. "Approachability in Dynamic Games:
Algorithms, Refinements, and Application to No-Regret Problems," December
2013.
29. Sofia Berkovic, M.Sc. "Anytime algorithms for Simple Regret
minimization in stochastic online planning," July 2014.
30. Ido Cohen, M.Sc. "Control and Guidance of a Combat Aircraft
in Autonomous Flight," October 2014.
31. Yuri Osokin, M.Sc. "Trajectory Planning for Aircraft
Engine-Shutoff Emergency," December 2014. Additional supervisor: Dr.
Aharon Bar-Gill.
32. Oron Benalul, M.Sc. "A Pareto-based Comparison Approach for
Nonlinear State Estimation," December 2015. Additional supervisor: Dr.
Ilan Rusnak.
33. Yahel David, Ph.D. "Learning in Large Multi-Armed Bandit
Problems," Nov. 2016.
34. Michal Zarrouk, M.Sc. "Markov Decision Processes with
Burstiness Constraints", January 2017.
35. Ayal Titler, M.Sc. "Intelligent Learning Controller for an
Air-Hockey Playing Robot," March 2017.
36. Max Chiswick, M.Sc. (final paper), "Solving Computer Poker
with Counterfactual Regret Minimization," June 2017.
37. Oron Anchel, M.Sc. ""Variance Reduction and Algorithm
Stabilization for Deep Reinforcement Learning". September 2017.
38. Guy Revach, M.Sc. "Planning for Cooperative Multiple Agents
with Sparse Interaction". January 2018.
39. Tamir Perl, M.Sc. "Control of Vibratory MEMS Gyroscope with
Parametric Resonance". March
2018.
40. Daniel Segal, M.Sc. "Max-Range Glides in Engine Cutoff
Emergencies Under Severe Wind". July 2018.
41. Guy Adam, M.Sc. "Approximate Thompson Sampling for Improved
Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning.” December 2019.
42. Yair Shemer, M.Sc. “Unsupervised Video Summarization using
Heuristic Optimization Algorithms.” Feb. 2020.
43. Lior
Cohen, M.Sc. “Learning to Schedule Video Streams over Parallel Cellular
Channels.” April 2021.
44. Nir Greshler,
M.Sc. “Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding.” December 2021.
45. Meir Halachmi, M.Sc. “Maximal Range Gliding Algorithms.”
February 2024.
Theses in Progress:
1. Tom Danino,
Ph.D. “Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning”.
2. Harukjun (Arik) Magakyan, “Anomaly Detection in Time Series
using VAEs”.