Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London
Email: sara.bernardini@rhul.ac.uk
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Digital Ocean
National Oceanography Centre
Email: sara.bernardini@noc.ac.uk
Professional Activities
Editorial Work
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Artificial Intelligence Journal Associate Editor
The Impact Factor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal is 14.4, ranking it 11 out of 139 in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence.
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Artificial Intelligence Journal Guest Editor - Special Issue on Risk-Aware Autonomous Systems: Theory and Practice​
This special issue focuses on the theory and practice of risk-aware autonomous systems that reason about uncertainty and risk online to achieve safety and combine machine learning and decision-making to accomplish real-world tasks.​
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Editorial Team: Prof. Sara Bernardini (Royal Holloway University of London), 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). ​​​
Leadership
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Elected Member of the AAAI Executive Council (2023 – 2025)
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AAAI Partnership Committee Chair (2023 – 2025)
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Elected Member of the ICAPS Executive Council (2024 – 2030)
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Event Organisation
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Bridge Program Co-Chair - 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24)
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Associate General Chair - 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23)
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Bridge Program Co-Chair - 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23)
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Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair - 32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-22)
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Publicity Co-Chair - 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-22)
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Novel Application Track Co-Chair - 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-20)
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General Chair - 3rd Summer School on Cognitive Robotics
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Workshop Co-Chair - 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-19)
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Journal Track Programme Chair - 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-17)
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Programme Co-Chair - International Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK) at ICAPS, eds. 2016-2020
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Programme Co-Chair - Intern. Workshop on Integrated Planning, Acting, & Execution (IntEx) at ICAPS, eds. 2017-2018
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Senior Local Arrangements Chair - 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-16)
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Remote Participation Co-Chair - 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-14)
Programme Committee Memberships
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International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)​
Senior PC member: 2020, 2021, 2022
PC member: 2013 - 2019
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AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Senior PC member: 2019
PC member: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021
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International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
Senior PC member: 2021
PC member: 2016 - 2022
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International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
Senior PC member: 2022, 2021, 2020
PC member: 2009 - 2019
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IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
PC member: 2021, 2022
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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
PC member: 2021, 2022
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European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
Senior PC member: 2016
PC member: 2014​
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International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)
PC member: 2014 - 2015
Reviewer
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Artificial Intelligence Journal​
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Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research​
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AI Communications
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AI Magazine
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Information Science
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
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IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
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IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
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Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
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Personal and Ubiquitous Computing