Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London
Email: sara.bernardini@rhul.ac.uk
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National Oceanography Centre
Email: sara.bernardini@noc.ac.uk
Sara Bernardini
I am a professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway University of London.
I am also the Principal Research Scientist in AI and Data Science at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute in London.
My research is in AI and Robotics and focuses on autonomous decision-making.
Publications
My research has been regularly published in top-ranked AI and robotics journals and conferences, for example, Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. My paper "Through the Lens of Sequence Submodularity" received the ICAPS-2020 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.
Projects
My projects revolve around applying AI and advanced robotics to challenging environments. Currently, I am the co-PI of three projects funded by Innovate UK and industry: VersaTile, SoAR and Demeter. I am also the co-PI of the project SMaILE funded by Compagnia San Paolo, and I lead a Leverhulme grant on game theory for large-scale decision-making. In 2019-21, I was the co-PI of three projects funded by Innovate UK under the program "Robots for a Safer World": MIMRee, Prometheus and Connect-R.
MIMRee
Teaching
I am the Director of the MSc in Artificial Intelligence at Royal Holloway, and I teach three of its core modules: AI Principles and Techniques, Intelligent Autonomous Agents and Ethics in Advanced Computing and AI. Previously, I taught Interconnected Devices and Wireless Sensor Networks in the MSc in the Internet of Things. In 2019, I was the General Chair of the 3rd Summer School on Cognitive Robotics.
IoT
Conference
Organisation
I am the Associate General Chair of AAAI-23 and a co-chair of the Bridge Program at AAAI-23.
The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in AI and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-23 is the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The theme of this conference is to create collaborative bridges within and beyond AI.
Editorial
Work
I am a guest editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal Special Issue "Risk-Aware Autonomous Systems: Theory and Practice". The Impact Factor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal is 14.050, ranking it 11 out of 139 in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence. The other guest editors are Prof. Luca Carlone (MIT), Dr Ashkan Jasour (JPL), Prof. Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich), Prof. George Pappas (University of Pennsylvania), Prof. Brian Williams (MIT) and Prof. Yisong Yue (Caltech).
