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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Recipient of 2018 Cátedra de Excelencia UC3M-Banco Santander Award; Member of the AAAI Executive Council 2016-2019; Member of AAAI Conference Committee 2015-2019; Program Co-Chair of AAAI-2015; Associate Editor of AI Access Books 2013-2017; Associate Editor of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2012-2019; Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) since 2011; Editorial Board of Bulletin of Computational Applied Mathematics (CompAMa); Member of Executive Council of ICAPS 2012-2018; Conference Co-Chair of ICAPS-2012; Workshops Co-Chair of ICAPS-2011; Head of the Computer Science Department 2009-2011; Tutorial Chair for ICAPS-2008; Organized multiple workshops and conferences.
Research Experience
Developed several software for different types of planning systems and other applications. Most of the software can be downloaded from his GitHub account.
Education
Received a MSc degree in 1996 from Universidad Simón Bolívar under the direction of Prof. Hector Geffner, and later a PhD degree in 2004 from University of California, Los Angeles, under the direction of Prof. Judea Pearl and Prof. Richard Korf, both in Artificial Intelligence.
Background
Research interests include automated planning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, Bayesian networks, heuristic search, etc. Former Professor of Computer Science at Universidad Simón Bolívar and researcher at the Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions (DTIC) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.