Scholar
Maite Lopez-Sanchez
Google Scholar ID: ABr4UU4AAAAJ
Full professor of Artificial Intelligence, Universitat de Barcelona
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,270
H-index
20
i10-index
36
Publications
20
Co-authors
32
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- ['Keynote: "Inducing Ethical Behaviour in Autonomous Agents through Value Alignment", EASSS'24 (24th European Agent Systems Summer School), University College Dublin, Ireland, August 20, 2024', 'Seminar: "Value-Alignment in Multi-Agent Systems", School of Computing, University of Otago, New Zealand, May 17, 2024, during research visit to Prof. Stephen Cranefield', 'Invited talk: "Ethical Values in Multi-Agent Systems", IV International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Applied Computing, Mexico (online), November 16, 2023', 'Talk: "Value-Engineering for Ethical AI", CSIC AIhub workshop "The many challenges of Artificial Intelligence", La Cristalera, Madrid, November 13–15, 2023', 'Presentation: "Value alignment", 1st Japan-Spain Symposium: Avatar Symbiotic Society, FME (UPC), Barcelona, November 3, 2023', 'Lightning talk: "Can a Chatbot Foster Participation at Decidim?", Decidim Fest 2023, Canòdrom, Barcelona, October 18–20, 2023', 'Opening Lecture: "Ethical Value Engineering", Facultat de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, UB, September 27, 2023', 'Round table on AI and teaching, "Jornada sobre intel·ligència artificial en la docència a la UB", UB Aula Magna, July 7, 2023', 'Panel: "AI Value alignment: reasoning or learning?", "Being human in the digital society: on technology, norms and us", Delft University of Technology']
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, September 1999, at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), thesis entitled "Approaches to Map Generation by means of Collaborative Autonomous Robots", supervised by Professor Ramon López de Màntaras
- Visiting Researcher, January–June 1998, Robotics Laboratory, University of Southern California (USC), USA
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, 1996, thesis entitled "Unknown Environment Map Generation by means of Autonomous Cooperative Robots"
- Completed Ph.D. coursework requirements, 1994–1996, at Autonomous University of Barcelona and Polytechnic University of Catalonia, GPA: 3.86
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, 1989–1994, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), final project on "Design of an Environment for Qualitative-Quantitative Rule-Based Expert Systems Development"
Background
- Full Professor ("Catedrática") at Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
- Member of the WAI (Volume Visualization and Artificial Intelligence) research group (2009 SGR 362)
- Member of CLiC (Centre de Llenguatge i Computació) (2014 SGR 623, 2021 SGR 00313)
- Principal Investigator (Investigadora Responsable) of WAI as an associated unit to CSIC under the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA)
- Member of the Consolidated Educational Innovation Group INDOMAIN (GIDCUB-13/138) at UB
- Former board member of ACIA (Associació Catalana d'Intel·ligència Artificial)
- Emeritus board director of EURAMAS (European Association for Multi-Agent Systems)
- Research interests include open democracy, collective intelligence, ethics, and moral values
