Javier Segovia-Aguas


Postdoctoral Researcher


Universitat Pompeu Fabra
AI & ML Group
email: javier/dot/segovia/at/upf/dot/edu


Short Bio

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI&ML) research group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). In my research career, I have published more than 20 articles and served as a Program Committee Member and Reviewer in top-tier AI conferences and journals, and received several awards, for example, the EurAI "Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award", awarded for the best European dissertation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2018. My main research interests are in automated planning and machine learning, where solutions to complex sequential-decision problems are in the form of programs or policies, and extending these ideas to learning high-level models from raw data, and computing hierarchical and provably general solutions. This research may has an impact in other fields such as robotics, software engineering, cybersecurity, and even computational biology.

Recognition of Achievements


Awards
  • IJCAI-ECAI 2022 Sister Conferences Best Papers
    Paper: Computing Programs for Generalized Planning as Heuristic Search (Extended Abstract)
  • IJCAI-ECAI 2022 Distinguished Program Committee Member
    Top 3% PC members of the conference
  • EurAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award 2018
    Thesis: Program Synthesis for Generalized Planning
  • IJCAI 2016 Distinguished Paper Award
    Paper: Hierarchical Finite State Controllers for Generalized Planning
Fellowships
  • Ramón y Cajal 2022 (2nd reserve)
    Competitive fellowship awarded by the Spanish government
  • Juan de la Cierva - Formación 2019
    Competitive fellowship awarded by the Spanish government

Community Service


Organizer
  • Organizer of ICAPS-24 workshop on the International Planning Competition
  • Organizer of the 2023 International Planning Competition - Learning Track
  • Chair of IJCAI-21 workshop on Generalization in Planning
  • Chair of AAAI-20 workshop on Generalization in Planning
Journal Reviewer
  • Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)
  • Machine Learning Journal (MLJ)
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
  • Mechatronics
Conference Senior Program Committee
  • IJCAI (2021)
Conference Program Committee
  • AAAI (2020-24)
  • IJCAI (2020-24)
  • ICAPS (2019-24)
  • ICRA (2020)
  • RO-MAN (2020)
Workshop Program Committee
  • NeurIPS 2023 workshop on Generalization in Planning (GenPlan '23)
  • IJCAI-ECAI 2022 workshop on Generalization in Planning (GenPlan '22)
  • IJCLR 2021 workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming (AAIP '21)
  • AAAI - Student Abstracts (2019-21)

Publications

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