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I am currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Exact
Sciences and Engineering (FCEE) at the University of Madeira
(UMa), where I also serve as a member of the General Council
since 2020.
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In terms of my education, I obtained a 1st degree in
Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA),
Argentina, in 1991. I then pursued a PhD in Computer
Science, summa cum laude, from the same institution,
graduating in 1999. Subsequently, in 2008, I received my
Habilitation (Agregação) in Informatics Engineering,
specialising in Artificial Intelligence, from the University
of Madeira. Most recently, in 2011, I completed my PhD in
Philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in
Sweden.
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I have been teaching at the University of Madeira since
2002, where I have taught various courses, including
Artificial Intelligence, Software Project Management, and
Logic and Reasoning. Prior to my current role, I served as
an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at
the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from 1997 to 2002 and
as an Assistant Teacher from 1991 to 1997, focusing on
Artificial Intelligence and Logic.
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In terms of supervision, I have overseen the work of 4
postdoctoral researchers, 4 completed PhD students and 2
ongoing PhD students, 32 completed MSc students and 1
ongoing MSc student, and 4 1st degree projects at UMa
(pre-Bologna) and 5 1st degree theses at the Computer
Science Department at UBA.
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terms of research, my focus of research is the area of
Belief Revision (Logic of Theory Change). Belief Revision
theory studies the impact of acquiring new
information. Commencing in 1988 during my
undergraduate studies, my endeavors in this sphere have been
characterized by the formulation of novel theoretical
frameworks and more recently in appply belief revision
algorithms to solve consistent updates problems in systems.
Ex. Belief revision applied to systems for
neurorehabilitation therapy and the dynamics of systems
reccomendations.
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have been an integrated member of the NOVA Laboratory for
Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS) since 2012.
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Over my career, I have led 10 scientific projects and
contributed as a senior researcher to five projects since
1997.
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I have authored one scientific book on the dynamics of
knowledge and the logic of theory change, edited six books
and served as a guest editor for four special journal
issues. My work includes 39 papers published in
peer-reviewed international journals, including top
publications such as Artificial Intelligence, Journal of
Artificial Intelligence Research and Journal of Symbolic
Logic. I have also contributed to 11 book chapters and
presented more than 40 papers includiyng leading
international conferences like IJCAI, ECAI, and KR.
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Since 2023 I am a Member of the Advisory Committee of
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning,
Incorporated (KR-inc). During 2022, I have served as Chair
of the Steering Committee for the International Workshops on
Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR), having been a member since
2018. I am also an editorial board member for the journals Argument
and Computation, Journal of Applied Logics,
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, and Inteligencia
Artificial, the Iberoamerican Journal of Artificial
Intelligence.
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was the Conference Chair of JELIA2014, the 14th European
Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence;
Vice-Chair do IBERAMIA'2018, the 16th Ibero-American
Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Chair (with
Serena Villata) of NMR 2018, the 17th International Workshop
on Non-Monotonic Reasoning. Chair (with Guillermo
Simari) of 6 editions of BRAON, Workshops on Belief
Revision, Argumentation, Ontologies and Norms.
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I have been honored as a keynote speaker at several
prestigious scientific gatherings, including the 1st
South African Workshop of Knowledge Representation
(Cape-KR 2024), the 17th European Conference on
Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with
Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2023), the 3rd Workshop on
Proof Theory and its Applications, the Conventicle
in the 16th Pacific Rim International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2019), the 18th
Brazilian Logic Conference.
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I have visited a range of esteemed institutions, starting
with the Computer Science Department at the University
Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca, Argentina; followed by the
Computer Science Department at the University of Buenos
Aires, Argentina; Uppsala University, Sweden; the
Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University, USA; Mahasarakham University, Thailand; the
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME) at the
University of São Paulo, Brazil; the Division of Philosophy
at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm,
Sweden; the Computer Science and Communication Lab at the
University of Luxembourg; the Computer Science Department at
the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Faculty of
Mathematics and Computer Science at FernUniversität in
Hagen, Germany; the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de
Toulouse (IRIT) at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse,
France; the Fakultät für Informatik at Technische
Universität Dortmund in Germany; the Department of Business
Administration at the University of Patras in Greece; the
Philosophy Department at the University of Regensburg in
Germany; the Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME) at
the University of São Paulo, Brazil; the Laboratoire
d’Informatique Paris Descartes (LIPADE) at Université Paris
Cité in France; the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) Sophia Antipolis at Université Côte
d’Azur in France; the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Cape Town in South Africa; the Business &
Technology School at the University of Nebrija in Madrid,
Spain; the Valencia Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence at Universitat Politècnica de València in
Spain; and the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
(IIIA-CSIC) in Spain.
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In addition to my teaching and research roles, I have held
several management positions. I was the Coordinator of the
research Pole Madeira NLINCS from 2020 to 2022, and I served
as Director of the PhD in Informatics Engineering at UMa
from 2019 to 2021. I have also been the Head of the
Department of Informatics Engineering and Interactive Media
Design at UMa from 2016 to 2019 and again from 2021 to 2023.
Prior to these roles, I was the Head of the Department of
Mathematics and Engineering (DME) at UMa from 2008 to 2010.
