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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to robotics and multi-agent systems and a lifelong commitment to diversity in computing
  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multi-agent programming in robotics
  • 2016 - AAAI Distinguished Service Award For her outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through sustained service leading AI societies, journals, and conferences; mentoring colleagues; and working to increase participation of women in AI and computing.
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to coordination and competition in multirobot and multiagent systems, for leadership in the AI community, and for inspiring the next generation.
  • 2006 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Maria Gini is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily centers on the field of Computer Science, with a specific focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, and various engineering disciplines including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist is known for work across several main topics, including:

  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Emotion and Mood Recognition

Recent published papers include:

  • "Autonomous agents and multiagent systems," 2021, published in AI Matters
  • "C-Nav: Distributed coordination in crowded multi-agent navigation," 2020, published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • "More Trees or Larger Trees: Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search," 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Games
  • "Characterization of brown carbon absorption in different European environments through source contribution analysis," 2025, published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "What We Know So Far: Artificial Intelligence in African Healthcare," 2023, published in arXiv (Cornell University)

The most frequent co-authors working with Maria Gini are:

  • John Harwell
  • Libby Ferland
  • Serguei Pakhomov
  • Naome A. Etori
  • Angel Sylvester

Publication venues where the scientist has frequently contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • AI Matters
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Games

Maria Gini has received several awards recognizing their contributions to the scientific community and leadership in artificial intelligence and robotics. These awards include:

  • ACM Fellow, 2019, for contributions to robotics and multi-agent systems and a lifelong commitment to diversity in computing
  • IEEE Fellow, 2018, for contributions to multi-agent programming in robotics
  • AAAI Distinguished Service Award, 2016, for contributions to AI societies, journals, conferences, mentoring, and efforts to increase participation of women in AI and computing
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008, for contributions to coordination and competition in multirobot and multiagent systems and leadership in AI
  • ACM Distinguished Member, 2006

Best Publications

  • Partitioning-based clustering for Web document categorization

    Daniel Boley;Maria Gini;Robert Gross;Eui-Hong Han

  • Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems

    Maria Gini;Onn Shehory;Takayuki Ito;Catholijn Jonker

  • Magma an agent based virtual market for electronic commerce

    Maksim Tsvetovatyy;Maria Gini;Bamshad Mobasher;Zbigniew Wieckow Ski

  • WebACE: a Web agent for document categorization and exploration

    Eui-Hong Han;Daniel Boley;Maria Gini;Robert Gross

  • A taxonomy for task allocation problems with temporal and ordering constraints

    Ernesto Nunes;Marie Manner;Hakim Mitiche;Maria Gini

  • Document Categorization and Query Generation on the World Wide WebUsing WebACE

    Daniel Boley;Maria Gini;Robert Gross;Eui-Hong (Sam) Han

  • A miniature robotic system for reconnaissance and surveillance

    D.F. Hougen;S. Benjaafar;J.C. Bonney;J.R. Budenske

  • A market architecture for multi-agent contracting

    John Collins;Ben Youngdahl;Scott Jamison;Bamshad Mobasher

  • Repeated auctions for robust task execution by a robot team

    Maitreyi Nanjanath;Maria Gini

  • Robot navigation in a known environment with unknown moving obstacles

    Steven Ratering;Maria L. Gini

  • Performance of a distributed robotic system using shared communications channels

    P.E. Rybski;S.A. Stoeter;M. Gini;D.F. Hougen

  • Enlisting rangers and scouts for reconnaissance and surveillance

    P.E. Rybski;N.P. Papanikolopoulos;S.A. Stoeter;D.G. Krantz

  • Multi-robot auctions for allocation of tasks with temporal constraints

    Ernesto Nunes;Maria Gini

  • A Multi-Agent Negotiation Testbed for Contracting Tasks with Temporal and Precedence Constraints

    John Collins;Wolfgang Ketter;Maria Gini

  • A team of robotic agents for surveillance

    Paul E. Rybski;Sascha A. Stoeter;Michael D. Erickson;Maria Gini

  • Autonomous stair-hopping with Scout robots

    S.A. Stoeter;P.E. Rybski;M. Gini;N. Papanikolopoulos

  • Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Steven Jensen;Daniel L Boley;Maria L Gini;Paul R Schrater

  • Parallel search algorithms for robot motion planning

    D.J. Challou;M. Gini;V. Kumar

  • Real-Time Tactical and Strategic Sales Management for Intelligent Agents Guided by Economic Regimes

    Wolfgang Ketter;John Collins;Maria Gini;Alok Gupta

  • Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in multi-agent automated exchanges

    Wolfgang Ketter;John Collins;Maria Gini;Alok Gupta

  • Decision processes in agent-based automated contracting

    J. Collins;C. Bilot;M. Gini;B. Mobasher

  • IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Erik Steinmetz;Maria L Gini

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppina Gini
Giuseppina Gini Polytechnic University of Milan
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos University of Minnesota
Paul Schrater
Paul Schrater University of Minnesota
Alok Gupta
Alok Gupta University of Minnesota
Bamshad Mobasher
Bamshad Mobasher DePaul University
Vipin Kumar
Vipin Kumar University of Minnesota
Serguei V. S. Pakhomov
Serguei V. S. Pakhomov University of Minnesota
Catholijn M. Jonker
Catholijn M. Jonker Delft University of Technology
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
George Karypis
George Karypis University of Minnesota

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