Dr Elimelech
Short bio:
Dr Khen Elimelech is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science in the Department of Informatics, within the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES), at King’s College London, where he leads the Autonomous Robots Lab. Before joining King’s, he was a postdoctoral researcher and an instructor at Rice University, hosted by Lydia Kavraki and Moshe Vardi. Prior to that, he earned a PhD in Robotics and Autonomous Systems from Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Vadim Indelman, and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from Bar-Ilan University.
Service
Conference organization
- 2025 Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS) [Area Chair]
- 2024 Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS) [Inclusion Chair]
Workshop organization
- Task and Motion Planning: from Theory to Practice, IROS 2023
- Evaluating Motion Planning Performance: Metrics, Tools, Datasets, and Experimental Design, IROS 2022
- Debates on the Future of Robotics Research, ICRA 2022
- Pioneers Workshop, R:SS 2020
Reviewer/program committee member
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) Journal
- Communications of the ACM (CACM)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
- Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR)
- International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Workshop on Generalization in Planning (GenPlan)
Professional Societies
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)