In the prize competition, the conference reviewers selected eight papers out of the hundreds submitted.

A powerful tool that could flexibly automate processes like this would be useful for many scientific and high-level commercial applications.

Rickel was a project leader in the Intelligent Systems division of ISI and a research assistant professor at the USC School of Engineering department of computer science.

The honor was for Modi’s work with the AI grads, the group of Computer Science Graduate Research Assistants working in the Intelligent Systems Division.