Research Activities
Current Positions
Principal Researcher at CONICET , National Council of Scientific and Technological Research
Researcher Category I at "Programa de Incentivos", SPU, Argentina
Member of ISISTAN Research Institute , Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Tandil, Argentina), since 1999.
Director of PhD in Computer Science career at Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Editorial Services
Associate Editor for Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier
Associate Editor for Decision Analytics Journal, Elsevier
Editor for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier
Recent Program Committees
21st International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS'23), Guimarães (Portugal) - 12th-14th July, 2023.
IJCAI-23 Doctoral Consortium (DC) - Cape Town, South Africa - August 21, 2023
Workshop de Agentes y Sistemas Inteligentes (WASI 2022) - XXVIII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2022) - Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, La Rioja, del 3 al 6 de octubre 2022.
ASAI 2022 (Simposio Argentino de Inteligencia Artificial) - 51 JAIIO - 51º Jornadas Argentinas de Informática - Octubre de 2022
Area chair in Natural Language Processing and Conversational AI (NLP) – IBERAMIA 2022 - November 2022 - Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Doctoral Consortium (IJCAI/ECAI - DC) - Vienna, Austria – July 2022
IEEE ARGENCON 2022 (IEEE ARGENCON 2022 Argentina Section Biennial Congress) – San Juan, Argentina - September 7 to 9, 2022
Simposio Latinoamericano de Investigación de Operaciones e Inteligencia Artificial (SLIOIA), CLEI 2022 - Armenia, Colombia - Entre 17 y 21 de octubre del 2022.
PAAMS 2022, 20th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - L'Aquila (Italy) - 13th-15th July 2022.
IEEE ICALT 2022 - Track 4. Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL) - Romania - July 1 to 4, 2022.
AAMAS 2022 Doctoral Consortium – 9 al 13 de Mayo 2022 – Auckland, Nueva Zelanda
Program Committee (PC) Member for the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22) – Vancouver, Canada – 22 Feb to 1 March 2022
31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 22) - July 23-29, 2022 in Vienna, Austria
ICALT 2021 - 21th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (Online) - July 12-15, 2021 – Track 4 DIGITEL
AAMAS-2021 DC (20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Doctoral Consortium) - 3-7 May 2021, London-UK
IJCAI 2021 (the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) - August 2021, Montreal Canada
Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) – 2-9 Febrero 2021
PAAMS 2020, 18th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - L'Aquila (Italy) - 17th-19th June, 2020
IBERAMIA 2020 (17th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence) - Cartagena de Indias, Colombia 18-20, November 2020
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 - Yokohama, Japan - July 11-17, 2020
AAAI-20 - 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - February 7-12, New York, NY, USA
IJCAI-2019, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Macao, China - August 10-16, 2019
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) Track Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL) - Maceió, Brazil - July 15-18, 2019.
ASAI 2019 (Argentine Symposium of Artificial Intelligence) - Salta, Argentina - Septiembre 16-20, 2019
PAAMS'19 (17th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) - Ávila (Spain) - 26th-28th June, 2019
DC @ AAMAS 19 (Doctoral Consortium at the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2019) – 13th-14th of May 2019 – Montreal, Canadá
WBC 2018, 15th International Conference on Web Based Communities and Social Media 2018 - Madrid, Spain, 17 - 19 July 2018
Ontobras 2018. The Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil - São Paulo (SP) - October, 1 to 3, 2018
DC @ AAMAS 18 (Doctoral Consortium at the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2018) – Estocolmo, Suecia – 10 a 15 de Julio 2018
IJCAI 2018 – Estocolmo, Suecia – Julio 2018
ASAI 2018 – Buenos Aires, 3 al 7 de septiembre de 2018
AAAI-18, 32nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2-7, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
COLLA 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications - June 24 - 28, 2018 - Venice, Italy
16th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2018) – Toledo, España - 20 a 22 Junio, 2018
Area Chair (Human-Computer Interaction) de 14th IBERAMIA (Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence) - Santiago, Chile – Nov. 2014
PREVIOUS
4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2017) - Krakow, Poland, at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, from 16 to 18 October, 2017
3rd International Workshop on Social Influence Analysis (SocInf 2017) - IJCAI 2017 – Melbourne, Australia – Agosto 2017
15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2017) – 21 a 23 Junio 2017, Porto, Portugal
14th International Conference on Web Based Communities and Social Media (WBC 2017) – Lisboa, Portugal – 20 a 23 de Julio 2017
The Seventh International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications - COLLA 2017 - July 23 - 27, 2017 - Nice, France
ASAI 2014 – 1 to 5 de Sept. 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Web Based Communities and Social Media Conference 2014, IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2014) – Lisbon, Portugal – July 2014
XXXX Conferencia Latinoamericana en Informática, CLEI 2014, Simposio Investigación de Operaciones e Inteligencia Artificial- Montevideo, Uruguay
Concurso Latinomericano de Tesis de Maestría en Computación 2014 (CLTM) - CLEI 2014, 16 to 19 sept. 2014 - Montevideo, Uruguay
5th International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems (CATS2014) – ITS2014, Hawaii – 5 - 6 june 2014
COLLA 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Application – June 2014, Sevilla, Spain
12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS'14) – Salamanca, España, June 2014
XIV Workshop Agentes y Sistemas Inteligentes (WASI 2013), parte de CACIC 2013 – Oct. 2013
4th International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems (CATS2013) – AIED2013, Memphis, USA – July 2013
2nd Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS-13) - Octubre 2013, Fortaleza, Brasil • International Conference on Semantic Web and Information Systems (SWEBIS 2013) –Nov. 2013, México
EPIA 2013 thematic track (m)AS&ILE - (multi)Agent Systems & Intelligent Learning Environments – Sept. 2013 - Azores - Portugal
COLLA 2013, The Third International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications – Niza, Francia – July 2013
IJCAI 2013, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Beijing, China, August 2013
XXXIX Conferencia Latinoamericana en Informática, CLEI 2013, Simposio Investigación de Operaciones e Inteligencia Artificial, Venezuela, oct. 2013
Concurso Latinoamericano de Tesis de Maestría (CLTM), en el marco de CLEI 2013 – Venezuela, oct. 2013
IADIS Collaborative Technologies 2013 (CT 2013) Conference – Praga, República Checa, July 2013
ASAI 2013, Simposio Argentino de Inteligencia Artificial – Córdoba, Sept. 2013
11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS'13) – Salamanca, España, 22 al 24 Mayo 2013
Member of the Program Committee for PAAMS 2012, International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems - Salamanca, España - March 2012
CLEI 2011, Latin American Conference on Informatics - Ecuador, October 2011
ASAI 2011, Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence -Cordoba, August 2011
SBIA 2010 - Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brasil - October 2010
CLEI 2010, Latin American Conference on Informatics - Paraguay, October 2010
ASAI 2010, Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence -Buenos Aires, August 2010
IFIP AI 2010 - Brisbane, Austarlia - September 2010
IV Congresso da Academia Trinacional de Ciências - C3N - Foz do Iguacu, Brasil - Octubre 2009
ASAI 2009, Argentine symposium on Artificial Intelligence - Mar del Plata, Agentina - August, 2009
2st World Summit on the Knowledge Society - Creete, Greece - September 2009
III Congresso da Academia Trinacional de Ciências - C3N - Foz do Iguacu, Brasil - 2008
1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society - Athens, Greece - September 2008
IFIP AI 2008 Program Committee - Milan, Italy, September 2008
EST 2008 Program Committee - 37 JAIIO - September 2008 - Santa Fe, Argentina
C3N Scientific Committee, II Congresso da Academia Trinacional de Ciências - Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil - 2007
ASAI 2007 Program Committee, Argentine symposium on Artificial Intelligence - Mar del Plata, Agentina - August, 2007
Chair of ASAI 2006 Program Committee, Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - Mendoza, Argentina - September 2006
WAIFE 2006 Program Committee - Workshop of Artificial Intelligence in Education - Mendoza, Argentina, 2006
IFIP AI 2006 (WCC 2006) Program Committee - Chile, August 2006
EST 2005 Program Committee (Students Contest at JAIIO 2005) - Rosario, Argentina - August 2005
Reviewer for: Knowledge-Based Systems, Computers and Education, Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer Nature), UMUAI, Journal of Computer Assistede Learning, JAAMAS, Information Sciences, Learning and Individual Differences, Human Tecnology, IEEE Potentials, Computers and Education, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, International Journal of Electronic Commerce (Special Issue on Recommender Systems, 2006), International Journal of Applied Intelligence (Special Issue on Agent-based Grid Computing, Springer, 2005), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, IEEE Computer (Special Issue on Web Intelligence – 2002)
Fellowship Grants
Postdoctoral research grant awarded by the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) - December 2004 to June 2005
Postgraduate research fellowship grant (SAPOST) awarded by the Science and Technology Secretary of the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires - April 2004 to November 2004
Postgraduate research fellowship grant awarded by the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), April 2000 - March 2004.
Postgraduate research grant awarded by the Buenos Aires Council of Scientific Research (CIC), 2000 (not accepted because of incompatibility with CONICET grant)
Research grant awarded by the Argentinean government (FOMEC Project 1227), 2000 (not accepted because of incompatibility with CONICET grant)
Semi-Senior research fellowship grant awarded by the Science and Technology Secretary of the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, 1999-2000.
Junior research fellowship grant awarded by the Buenos Aires Council of Scientific Research (CIC), 1999
Talks
“Inteligencia Artificial: Introducción y aplicaciones en el Derecho”, dictada junto al Dr. Jorge Andrés Díaz Pace – August 12, 2020 – Organizadores: Fac. Derecho, Fac. Cs Exactas - UNCPBA
“Usabilidad Web” - I Congreso Internacionalde Diseño Gráfico Publicitario – Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, UTEQ – November 15-17, 2017 – Quevedo, Ecuador
“Tecnologías Aplicadas en Educación” - IX Semana Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología – Univ. Nac. del Centro de la Pcia. De Bs. As. - June 6 to 18, 2011
"Personalizando la Asistencia del Usuario en la Web" - Agentes 003: Agentes en la Web - Jornadas sobre tecnología de agentes de software - Univ. Nac. de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata - 5 y 6 de diciembre de 2003
"Asistencia Personalizada" - Agentes 001: Jornadas sobre tecnología de agentes de software - Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires - July 13- 14, 2001
"Agentes Personalizados para Consultas en Internet" with Eng. Mario Zito from Analyte SRL - ASAI '99 - Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - Spetember 6 - 10, 1999 - 28 JAIIO (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa).
Conference Organization
Member of Organizing Committee of CACIC 2018, Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación, Tandil, Argentina – Octubre 2018
Local Arrangements Committee – ACM SIGCHI Summer/Winter School “Next-generation location-based technologies:from urban crowdsourcing to the physical web” - 18 al 22 de Diciembre de 2017 – Tandil, Argentina
Co-Chair IJCAI 2015 - Doctoral Consortium - Buenos Aires, July 2015
Chair IJCAI School 2014 - Buenos Aires, September 1-5 2014
Organizing Committee of 1er Escuela Argentina de Inteligencia Artificial, 41 JAIIO – La Plata, Agosto 2012
Coordinator of Simposio de Ciencias de la Computación y Aplicaciones del IV C3N, Congreso de la Academia Trinacional de Ciencias - Foz do Iguazú, Brasil - October 2009
Member of ASAI 2009 Organizing Committee, Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - Mar del Plata, August 2009
Coordinator of "Workshop de Inteligencia Artificial: Encuentro de Investigadores y Tesistas de Postgrado del PAV" - PAV Project School - Mendoza, June 2008
Member of ASAI 2006 Organizing Committee - Mendoza, Argentina - September 2006
Member of "Agentes 003: Agentes en la Web" Organizing Committee - Mar del Plata, 5 - 6 December 2003
JAIIO 2000 Publicity Chair (29 Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa) - September 4 - 10, 2000 - Tandil
Coordination of Belief Acquisition Paper Session - ASAI 2000, JAIIO 2000 - 7/9/2000
Coordination of Database Technical Session V1 - CACIC 99 V, Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación - Tandil, Argentina - 29/10/1999
Member of the ASAI'99 Organizing Committee - Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - Spetember 6 - 10, 1999 - 28 JAIIO (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa).