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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Editor-in-Chief of Spatial Cognition and Computation since 2003, and has been Chairman/President of SSAISB, EurAI, KR inc, IJCAI Board of Trustees. Served as Editor-in-Chief for Artificial Intelligence (2007-2014) and AAAI Press (2004-2014). Currently chairs the Steering Committee of the Spatial Cognition conference. Was a Director of KR Inc (2000-2023). Recipient of the 2015 IJCAI Donald E Walker Distinguished Service Award and the 2012 AAAI Distinguished Service Award.
Research Experience
Spent 10 years at the University of Warwick before moving to Leeds in 1990, where he founded a research group working on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, particularly focusing on qualitative spatial/spatio-temporal reasoning. He is one of the founders of the well-cited Region Connection Calculus (RCC).
Education
Holds BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Essex, studied under Pat Hayes.
Background
Areas of expertise include AI, knowledge representation & reasoning, ontologies, foundation models, data & sensor fusion, cognitive vision, spatial representation & reasoning, geographical information science, robotics.