I work with Prof.
Whitman Richards
at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory and Prof. Avi
Pfeffer and Barbara Grosz at the Artificial intelligence Group at Harvard University.
I graduated Harvard with a PhD in Computer Science in 2006, and an
M.S. in Computer Science in 2002. I did my undergraduate studies at
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. My C.V. can be found here.
I want to build computer agents that can make good decisions when they
interact with other people, and with other computer agents, in
domains such as negotiation, game playing, and education.
I am a participant in the Colored Trails
project, a general test bed for investigating human-computer
decision-making.
Tutorial:
Here is
a tutorial presentation on graphical models for
multi-agent decision-making that I presented with Avi Pfeffer at AAMAS
2007 (pdf version).
Publications:
Doctorate Thesis
- Ya'akov Gal Reasoning about Rationality and Beliefs, Harvard University, June 2006. [pdf]
Multi Agent Systems
- Ya'akov Gal and Avi Pfeffer Networks of Influence Diagrams: Reasoning About
Agents' Beliefs and Decision-Making Processes" To Appear in
Journal of Artificial Intelligence.
- Ya'akov Gal and Avi Pfeffer Modeling Reciprocity in Human Bilateral Negotiation National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI),Vancouver, British Columbia, July 2007.
[pdf][presentation]
- Avi Pfeffer and Ya'akov Gal On Reasoning Processes in Games National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI),Vancouver, British Columbia, July 2007.
[pdf]
- Ya'akov Gal and Avi Pfeffer
Predicting People's Bidding Behavior
in Negotiation Fifth
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006. [pdf]
- Shavit Talman, Ya'akov Gal, Meirav Hadad and Sarit Kraus Adapting to Agents' Personalities in
Negotiation Fourth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Utrecht,
the Netherlands, July 2005. [postscript]
[pdf] [presentation]
- Ya'akov Gal, Barbara Grosz, Avi Pfeffer and Stuart Shieber Colored Trails: a Formalism for
Investigating Decision-making in Strategic Environments IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Reasoning,
Representation, and Learning in Computer Games [pdf] [poster]
- Ya'akov Gal, Avi Pfeffer, Francesca Marzo, Barbara J. Grosz Learning Social Preferences in Games National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI),
San Jose, California, July 2004.
[postscript]
[pdf] [presentation]
- Ya'akov Gal, Avi Pfeffer Reasoning about Rationality and Beliefs
Third International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS),
New York, July 2004. [postscript]
[pdf] [presentation]
- Ya'akov Gal and Avi Pfeffer A Language for Opponent Modeling
in Repeated Games AAMAS03 Game theoretic workshop [Postscript] [pdf] [presentation]
- Ya'akov Gal and Avi Pfeffer A Language for Modeling Agents'
Decision Making Processes in Games Second International
Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS),
Melbourne Australia, July 2003. (Best Student Paper award nominee) [Postscript]
[pdf] [presentation]
- Meirav Hadad, Sarit Kraus, Ya'akov Gal and Raz Lin Temporal Reasoning for a
Collaborative Planning Agent in a Dynamic Environment, Annals
of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 37(4): 331-379 (2003) [Postscript
] [gzipped
Postscript]
Cognitive and Learning Sciences
- Ya'akov Gal, Elif Yamangil, Andee Rubin, Stuart Shieber and Barbara J. Grosz. Towards Collaborative Intelligent Tutors: Automated Recognition of Users' Strategies Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS),
Montreal, Quebec, June 2008. [pdf] [presentation]
- Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Avi Pfeffer and Stuart Shieber The Influence of Task Contexts on the Decision-making of Humans and Computers Proceedings of the Sixth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT),
Roskilde University, Denmark, August 2007. [pdf] [presentation]
- Francesca Marzo, Ya'akov Gal, Barbara Grosz and Avi
Pfeffer Social Preferences
in Relational Contexts IV
Conference in Collective Intentionality. Siena. Italy, October
2004 [pdf]
Natural language and discourse
modeling
- Marco Carbone, Ya'akov Gal, Stuart Shieber and Barbara Grosz Unifying Annotated Discourse Hierarchies to
create a Gold Standard Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial), Cambridge, MA, May 2004 [postscript] [pdf]
- Ya'akov Gal An HMM Approach to Vowel Restoration in Hebrew
and Arabic ACL 02 Semitic Language Workshop [Postsctipt ] [pdf]
