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AI-based Problem Solving and Planning

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Shangquan Sun
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2
Quentin Cappart
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
3
Yuexiong Ding
City University of Hong Kong
4
Tom Silver
Cornell University
5
Som Gupta
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
6
Ranjan Sapkota
Cornell University
7
Frederick Callaway
Princeton University
8
Shibo Hao
University of Florida
9
Rebeca Arista
Airbus (France)
10
Sarath Sreedharan
Colorado State University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Logit Standardization in Knowledge Distillation
Unknown Journal|2024
194 cit.
2
Comparing YOLOv8 and Mask R-CNN for instance segmentation in complex orchard environments
Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture|2024
174 cit.
3
Expert Systems With Applications
SSRN Electronic Journal|2025
154 cit.
4
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual Taxonomy, Applications and Challenges
SuperIntelligence - Robotics - Safety & Alignment|2025
128 cit.
5
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual taxonomy, applications and challenges
Information Fusion|2025
111 cit.
6
Generalized Planning in PDDL Domains with Pretrained Large Language Models
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence|2024
60 cit.
7
Immature Green Apple Detection and Sizing in Commercial Orchards Using YOLOv8 and Shape Fitting Techniques
IEEE Access|2024
49 cit.
8
Synthetic meets authentic: Leveraging LLM generated datasets for YOLO11 and YOLOv10-based apple detection through machine vision sensors
Smart Agricultural Technology|2024
48 cit.
9
Multi-Modal LLMs in Agriculture: A Comprehensive Review
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering|2025
23 cit.
10
Robust object detection in extreme construction conditions
Automation in Construction|2024
22 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Timo Torsten Schmidt
University of Augsburg
2
Christopher Agia
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
3
Petar Veličković
University of Cambridge
4
Matt Turek
Kitware (United States)
5
Yunyan Wang
Johns Hopkins University
6
Shiqi Zhang
Jiangnan University
7
Can A. Baykan
Carnegie Mellon University
8
Bjørn‐Olav H. Eriksen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
9
Danfei Xu
Georgia Institute of Technology
10
Zhiting Hu
Carnegie Mellon University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
RLPrompt: Optimizing Discrete Text Prompts with Reinforcement Learning
Unknown Journal|2022
146 cit.
2
Task and Motion Planning with Large Language Models for Object Rearrangement
Unknown Journal|2023
125 cit.
3
Reasoning with Language Model is Planning with World Model
Unknown Journal|2023
113 cit.
4
BITS: Bi-level Imitation for Traffic Simulation
Unknown Journal|2023
54 cit.
5
Integrating action knowledge and LLMs for task planning and situation handling in open worlds
Autonomous Robots|2023
53 cit.
6
AlignScore: Evaluating Factual Consistency with A Unified Alignment Function
Unknown Journal|2023
50 cit.
7
Reasoning With Scene Graphs for Robot Planning Under Partial Observability
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2022
45 cit.
8
The Altered States Database: Psychometric data from a systematic literature review
Scientific Data|2022
36 cit.
9
LEAGUE: Guided Skill Learning and Abstraction for Long-Horizon Manipulation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2023
26 cit.
10
BertNet: Harvesting Knowledge Graphs with Arbitrary Relations from Pretrained Language Models
Unknown Journal|2023
24 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Nicholas R. Jennings
Loughborough University
2
Enric Plaza
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
3
Héctor Geffner
RWTH Aachen University
4
Brian C. Williams
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
5
Paul S. Rosenbloom
University of Southern California
6
Anthony R. Cassandra
Brown University
7
David J. Spiegelhalter
University of Cambridge
8
Lydia E. Kavraki
Stanford University
9
Derek Long
University of Strathclyde
10
Dieter Fensel
Universität Innsbruck

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Intelligent agents: theory and practice
The Knowledge Engineering Review|1995
6.6k cit.
2
Probabilistic roadmaps for path planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation|1996
6.3k cit.
3
Case-Based Reasoning: Foundational Issues, Methodological Variations, and System Approaches
AI Communications|1994
5.5k cit.
4
WinBUGS - A Bayesian modelling framework: Concepts, structure, and extensibility
Statistics and Computing|2000
5.4k cit.
5
Planning and acting in partially observable stochastic domains
Artificial Intelligence|1998
4.1k cit.
6
Local Computations with Probabilities on Graphical Structures and Their Application to Expert Systems
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)|1988
4k cit.
7
Knowledge engineering: Principles and methods
Data & Knowledge Engineering|1998
3.6k cit.
8
SOAR: An architecture for general intelligence
Artificial Intelligence|1987
2.4k cit.
9
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems|1998
2.1k cit.
10
Diagnosing multiple faults
Artificial Intelligence|1987
2.1k cit.

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