Guy Shani




Please check my new website at the
department of Information Systems Engineering
Contact info:
Guy Shani
Dept. of Computer Science
Faculty of Natural Science
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Tel. +972-8-6478048, shanigu@cs.bgu.ac.il

Research:
I focus on planning, MDPs,
POMDPs and Collaborative Filtering.
I currently work on my PhD, titled -
"Partial Observability - From Model-Free to
Model-Based Methods".
Publications:
- Scaling
Up: Solving POMDPs through Value Based
Clustering, Yan Virin
and Guy Shani and Solomon E. Shimony and Ronen Brafman, AAAI
2007
- Forward Search Value Iteration For POMDPs - Guy Shani and Ronen
I. Brafman and Solomon E. Shimony , IJCAI 2007.
- Prioritizing Point-Based POMDP Solvers - Guy Shani
and Ronen I. Brafman and Solomon E. Shimony , ECML 2006.
- Adaptation
for Changing Stochastic Environments through Online POMDP Policy Learning
- Guy Shani
and Ronen I. Brafman and Solomon E. Shimony, Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary
Environments , ECML 2005.
- Model-Based
Online Learning of POMDPs, Guy Shani
and Ronen I. Brafman and Solomon E. Shimony, ECML 2005.
- Partial
Observability Under Noisy Sensors - From
Model-Free to Model-Based, Guy Shani and Ronen
I. Brafman and Solomon E. Shimony,
ICML RRfRL Workshop, ICML 2005.
- Resolving
Perceptual Aliasing In The Presence Of Noisy Sensors, Guy Shani
and Ronen I. Brafman NIPS,
2004.
- A
Survey of Model-Based and Model-Free Methods for Resolving Perceptual
Aliasing, Guy Shani, Technical
report 05#02 at Department
of Computer Science at the Ben-Gurion University in the Negev,
November 2004.
- An
MDP-Based Recommender System (M.Sc.
Dissertation), Guy Shani .
- An
MDP-Based Recommender System (Journal Version), Ronen I. Brafman, David Heckerman and Guy Shani, Journal of Machine Learning, 2005.
- Recommendation
as a Stochastic Sequential Decision Problem, Ronen I. Brafman, David Heckerman, and Guy Shani ICAPS, 2003.
- An MDP-Based
Recommender System, Guy
Shani, Ronen I. Brafman, and David Heckerman. UAI, 2002.
Work:
I worked at Microsoft in the Commerce Server group on
the Predictor recommender system from 7/2000 to 2/2002.
I worked at Mercury in the QuickTest and WinRunner group, on the Terminal Emulation, Standard
and ActiveX packages from 8/2002 to 10/2003.
My Hebrew CV can be found here.



