Since January 2023, I'm an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where I head the Chair of Machine Learning and Reasoning. I'm also a Wallenberg Guest Professor at Linkoping University, Sweden.
My current address is:Hector Geffner
Chair of Machine Learning and Reasoning
RWTH Aachen
Theaterstr. 35-39
52062 Aachen
Germany
+49 241 80-21601 (Phone)
+49 241 80-22219 (Fax)
Hector Geffner got his Ph.D at UCLA in 1989.
He then worked as Staff Research Member at the IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center in NY, USA and at the Universidad Simon Bolivar,
in Caracas, Venezuela. Since 2001 and until December 2022,
he was a researcher at ICREA
and a professor at the Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Hector is a former Associate
Editor of Artificial
Intelligence and the Journal of
Artificial Intelligence Research, and a
Fellow of AAAI and EurAI. He is the author
of the book Default Reasoning: Causal and Conditional
Theories, MIT Press, 1992, and "A
Concise Introduction to Models and Methods for Automated
Planning" with Blai Bonet, Morgan and Claypool, 2013.
He edited two books with Rina Dechter
and Joe
Halpern: "Heuristics,
Probability, and Causality: a Tribute to Judea Pearl",
College Publications, 2010, and Probabilistic
and Causal Inference: The Works of Judea Pearl, ACM
Books 2022. Hector is interested in computational models of
reasoning, action, learning, and planning that are general
and effective. He is also a concerned citizen (particularly
concerned these days) and aside from courses on logic and
AI, he teaches a course on social and technological change.
Hector leads a
project on representation learning for acting and planning,
funded by an Advanced
ERC grant, 2020-2025. Since January 2023, Hector
is an Alexander
von Humboldt Professor at the Computer
Science Department of RWTH Aachen
University where he heads the Chair
of Machine Learning and Reasoning. He is
also a Guest
Wallenberg Professor at Linkoping University.
