Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
AI Researcher
Ph.D. in Computer Science

Manchester, England, UK

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Symbolic AI and Autonomous Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, England, UK. From April 2020 to December 2022, I was a Research Associate at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale (DIAG) at Sapienza Università di Roma, working with Prof. Dr. Giuseppe De Giacomo on his Advanced ERC project WhiteMech. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in 2020, at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Felipe Meneguzzi (PUCRS) and Dr. Miquel Ramírez (University of Melbourne). During my Ph.D. (from June 2018 to April 2019) I was a Ph.D. Intern in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Melbourne, under the supervision of Dr. Miquel Ramírez .

In 2020, I was recognised as having the best Ph.D. thesis in Artificial Intelligence in Brazil, CTDIAC at 9th the Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) .

My research is in the field of Artificial Intelligence, particularly in the area of Automated Planning. Over the past years, I have been working on Goal and Plan Recognition techniques over several types of domain models.

You can find my publications here.

Currently, I serve in the program committee of following conferences and workshops:

• Program Committee for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20, AAAI-21, AAAI-22, AAAI-23, AAAI-24);
• Program Committee for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2022, IJCAI-2023, IJCAI-2024);
• Program Committee for the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-2022, ICAPS-2023, ICAPS-2024);
• Program Committee for the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021, AAMAS-2022, AAMAS-2023, AAMAS-2024);
• Senior Program Committee for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2021);
• Program Committee for the International Workshop of Explainable AI Planning (XAIP) (XAIP @ ICAPS 2020, 2021, and 2022);

I also serve as a reviewer of the following AI journals:

Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) from Springer;

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR);

The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER);

Journal of Logic and Computation (JLC);

International Journal of Computers and Applications (TJCA) from Taylor and Francis Ltd.;

I am the guest editor of the topic on Advances in Goal, Plan and Activity Recognition in the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence journal.

I co-chaired the demonstration track of the AAAI Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition (PAIR) in the years of 2020 and 2021.

Quick links to find me:

• GitHub;
• Google Scholar;
• DBLP;

Stuff I have worked on:

• Goal Recognition in FOND Planning Domain Models with LTLf and PLTL Goals;
• Domain-Independent Deceptive Planning;
• An Iterative Depth-First Search FOND Planner: Paladinus;
• An AND/OR Heuristic Search Planner for FOND Planning: Jadis;
• Goal Recognition via Linear Programming: LP-Recognizer;
• Goal Recognition in Latent Space: LatRec;
• Landmark-Based Approaches (Filter and Heuristics) For Goal Recognition;
• Datasets for Goal and Plan Recognition using Classical Planning Domains;
• A GraphPlan implementation in Java: JavaGP ;
• Web-Planner a Planing tool running on Heroku;
• Locus an environment description language for Jason ;
• A JaCaMo implementation for the Multi-Agent Programming Contest in 2016 (PUCRS’s team got 1st place);

Experience in Academia

• Lecturer, 2023 - Present
  University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  
• Research Associate, 2020 - 2022
  Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
  
• Ph.D. Researcher, 2016 - 2020
  CAPES (2017 - 2020), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  Hewlett-Packard (2016 - 2017), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• Ph.D. Research Intern, 2018 - 2019
  University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• M.Sc. Researcher, 2014 - 2015
  CAPES (2015), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  Samsung (2014), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2016 - 2019
  Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).
  University of Melbourne.
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2014 - 2016
  Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2009 - 2013
  Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).