Biography:Hector Geffner
Hector Geffner | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Awards | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2023)
EurAI Fellow ICAPS Influential Paper Award (2014, 2010, 2009) ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1990) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science Automated Planning |
| Institutions | RWTH Aachen University |
| Thesis | Default Reasoning: Casual and Conditional Theories (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Judea Pearl |
Hector Geffner is an Argentinian computer scientist and a Alexander von Humboldt Professor of artificial intelligence at RWTH Aachen University[1] and Wallenberg Guest Professor in AI at Linköping University.[2] His research interests are focused on artificial intelligence, especially automated planning and the integration of model-based AI and data-based AI. He is best known for his work on domain-independent heuristic planning and received several International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) influential paper awards.[3] Previously he held a research professorship at ICREA and the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Group at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona since 2001.[1] He was a staff researcher at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1990 to 1992 and a professor at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela from 1992 to 2001. Geffner was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2020 to explore the connection between machine learning and model-based AI,[4] and is a former board member and current fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).[5]. He was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2007.[6]
Geffner received his PhD in computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989 under the supervision of Judea Pearl on the topic Default Reasoning: Casual and Conditional Theories, for which he received an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.[1][7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Hector Geffner - Humboldt Professorship for AI 2023" (in en). https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/newsroom/dossier-alexander-von-humboldt-professorship/hectorgeffner.
- ↑ linkin (2019-10-21). "Hector Geffner Wallenberg Guest Professor in AI". https://wasp-sweden.org/hector-geffner-wallenberg-guest-professor-in-ai/.
- ↑ Kvarnström, Tove (2022-04-26). "Hector Geffner" (in en-US). https://elliit.se/hector-geffner/.
- ↑ "From data-based to model-based AI: representation learning for planning". 2023-05-20. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/885107.
- ↑ "Awards" (in en). https://www.eurai.org/award/fellows.
- ↑ "Elected AAAI Fellows" (in en-US). https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/.
- ↑ "Hector Geffner" (in en). https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/geffner_5299901.
External links
- Hector Geffner's homepage
- Hector Geffner's research group at the RWTH Aachen University
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