The Australian National University College of Engineering and Computer Science

Jochen Renz - Activities

In the News:

J. Lester, Man vs machine Angry Birds challenge, Fairfax Media, December 7, 2012.

J. Robertson, In the wild world of Angry Birds, man triumphs over machine, Sydney Morning Herald, December 6, 2012.

S. Sharwood, AI boffins take on Angry Birds, The Register, December 5, 2012.

M. Cuddihy, New Angry Birds competition for Artificial Intelligence, ABC News, December 5, 2012.

J.-P. Moloney, Artificial intelligence taking on the green pigs, Canberra Times, December 4, 2012.

S. Sherwood, AI boffins let fly with Angry Birds automation code, The Register, April 5, 2013.

M. Marani, El hombre vencio a la maqina en el torneo anual de Angry Birds (in Spanish), Tiempo Argentino, p.34-35, August 1, 2015.

K. Larichi, Experts discuss the future of autonomous robots, Associated Press Television, July 31, 2015.

Selected Grants:

J. Renz, P. Haslum, S. Gould, Novelty Characterization and Generation in a Physical Environment, DARPA SAIL-ON Project W911NF-20-2-0002, Phase 1: 2019-2021.

S. Winter, J. Renz, T. Baldwin, M. Tomko, W. Kuhn, Making human place knowledge digestible by computers, ARC Discovery Project DP170100109, 2017-2019.

J. Renz, M. Duckham, S. Li, Artificial Intelligence meets wireless sensor networks: filling the gaps between sensors using spatial reasoning, ARC Discovery Project DP120103758, 2012-2015.

S. Li, J. Renz, A.G. Cohn, Approximate reasoning with qualitative spatial constraints involving landmarks, ARC Discovery Project DP120104159, 2012-2015.

J. Renz, Engineering Artificial Intelligence: A Spatial Representation and Reasoning Perspective, ARC Future Fellowship FT0991917, 2009-2013.

Journals:

AI Communications Special Issue: Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Volume 17, Number 4, 2004: Guest Editor

Spatial Cognition and Computation Special Issue on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Volume 8, Number 1-2, 2008: Guest Editor

Earth Science Informatics: Associate Editor

Spatial Cognition and Computation: Editorial Board Member

Conferences:

AAAI 2002 18th National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

CP 2002 8th International Conf. on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: PC Member

TIME-ICTL 2003 10th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning and 4th International Conference on Temporal Logic: PC Member

IJCAI 2003 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Chair Assistant

FLAIRS 2005 18th International FLAIRS Conference, Special Track on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning: PC Member

COSIT 2005 7th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: PC Member

PRICAI 2006 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

GIScience 2006 4th International Conference on Geographic Information Science: PC Member

AI 2006 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

ECAI 2006 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

AGILE 2007 10th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: PC Member

COSIT 2007 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: PC Member

TRECK 2008 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how (TRECK): PC Member

AGILE 2008 11th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: PC Member

AAAI 2008 Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

ECAI 2008 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

AI 2008 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

COSIT 2009 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: PC Member

TRECK 2009 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how (TRECK): PC Member

AGILE 2009 12th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: PC Member

AI 2009 22nd Austalasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

AAAI 2010 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

ECAI 2010 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

IJCAI 2011 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Senior PC member

COSIT 2011 10th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: PC Member

KR 2012 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Area Chair

AAAI 2012 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

ECAI 2012 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

GIS 2012 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: PC Member

AI 2012 25th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Member

IJCAI 2013 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Angry Birds AI Competition Chair

COSIT 2013 11th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: PC Member

GIS 2013 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: PC Member

KR 2014 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Area Chair

AI 2015 28th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PC Chair

Symposia and Workshops:

STAIRS 2002 1st European Starting AI Researcher Symposium: PC Member

FASTR 2003 Foundations and Applications of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning (AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2003): Program Co-chair

STAIRS 2004 2nd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium: PC Member

STAIRS 2006 3rd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium: PC Member

ECAI 2006 WS The ECAI-06 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Co-Chair

KI 2006 WS KI 2006 Workshop on Qualitative constraint Calculi: PC Member

AAAI 2007 WS The AAAI-07 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Co-Chair

ECAI 2008 WS The ECAI-08 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Co-Chair

SSS 2009 Benchmarking of Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning Systems (AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2009): Co-Organizer

Dagstuhl Seminar 2010 QSTRLib: A Benchmark Problem Repository for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Co-Organizer

IJCAI 2011 WS Benchmarks and Applications of Spatial Reasoning: Co-Organizer

IJCAI 2013 Symposium on AI in Angry Birds: Co-Organizer

Competitions

AI 2012 Challenges Angry Birds: AI Challenge: Organizer

AI 2012 Challenges Angry Birds: Human vs Machine Challenge: Organizer

IJCAI 2013 Angry Birds AI Competition: Organizer

ECAI 2014 Angry Birds AI Competition: Organizer

IJCAI 2015 Angry Birds AI Competition: Organizer

Summer Schools:

ISCSI 2003 International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute, Bad Zwischenahn, Germany, 24 August - 6 September 2003

LSS 2004 The Logic Summer School, Canberra, Australia, 6-17 December 2004

Other Academic Activities:

Member of the Academic Board of the ANU

Member of the Research Committee of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science

Chair of the Advisory Board of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (since 2014)

Member of the Executive Committee of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (since 2014)