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]
Hector Geffner | |
|---|---|
| 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 Automated Planning |
| Institutions | RWTH Aachen University |
| Thesis | Default Reasoning: Casual and Conditional Theories (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Judea Pearl |
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
edit- ^ a b c "Hector Geffner - Humboldt Professorship for AI 2023". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
- ^ linkin (October 21, 2019). "Hector Geffner Wallenberg Guest Professor in AI". WASP. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
- ^ Kvarnström, Tove (April 26, 2022). "Hector Geffner". ELLIIT. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
- ^ "From data-based to model-based AI: representation learning for planning". European Research Council. May 20, 2023.
- ^ "Awards". www.eurai.org. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
- ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
- ^ "Hector Geffner". awards.acm.org. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
External links
edit- Hector Geffner's homepage
- Hector Geffner's research group at the RWTH Aachen University
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