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Jorge Andrés Baier Aranda

Profesor Asociado

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Automated Planning; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Heuristic Search

Educación

  •  Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Canada, 2010
  •  Ciencias de la Ingeniería, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2000
  •  Ciencias de la Ingeniería, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1999
  •  Ingeniero Civil de Industrias con Mención en Computación, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2000

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Asociado Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ingeniería

    Chile

    2002 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Engineer Full Time

    Netred SA

    Chile

    2000 - 2001

Formación de Capital Humano


- Master's student graduated under my supervision:
* Nicolás Rivera Aburto
* León Illanes
* Jorge Torres Villarubia
* Rodrigo Toro Icarte

- Undergraduate thesis supervised for:
* Pamela Calvo

- Current Students:
* Dietrich Daroch (MSc)
* Juan Sebastian Navarro (PhD)


Premios y Distinciones

  •   ICAPS Best Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention)

    International Conference on Planning and Scheduling

    Estados Unidos, 2011

    Award given to the best dissertation in the area of Automated Planning by the best conference in the field.

  •   Best Student Paper Award

    International Symposium on Combinatorial Search

    Estados Unidos, 2013

    Award given to the best paper whose main author is a student.

  •   Marcos Orrego Puelma

    INSTITUTO DE INGENIEROS DE CHILE

    Chile, 2001

    Given to the best engineering students graduated in Chile during 2000

  •   Distinguished Performance Award

    International Planning Competition

    Estados Unidos, 2006

    Award given to a planning system with distinguished performance in the qualitative preference track of the International Planning Competition.


 

Article (25)

Multipath Adaptive A*: Factors that Influence Performance in Goal-Directed Navigation in Unknown Terrain
The 2^k Neighborhoods for Grid Path Planning
Finite LTL synthesis as planning
LTL realizability via safety and reachability games
SynKit: LTL synthesis as a service
Synthesizing controllers: On the correspondence between LTL synthesis and non-deterministic planning
Fast and almost optimal any-angle pathfinding using the 2k neighborhoods
How a general-purpose commonsense ontology can improve performance of learning-based image retrieval
Online bridged pruning for real-time search with arbitrary lookaheads
Time-Bounded Best-First Search for Reversible and Non-reversible Search Graphs
Fast Algorithm for Catching a Prey Quickly in Known and Partially Known Game Maps
Incorporating weights into real-time heuristic search
Reusing cost-minimal paths for goal-directed navigation in partially known terrains
Reconnection with the ideal tree: A new approach to real-time search
Time-bounded best-first search
Toward a search strategy for anytime search in linear space using depth-first branch and bound
Avoiding and escaping depressions in real-time heuristic search
Avoiding and Escaping Depressions in Real-Time Heuristic Search
Reports of the AAAI 2012 Conference Workshops
Planning with rich goals, preferences and procedural operators via reformulation
A heuristic search approach to planning with temporally extended preferences
Formation of sub-micron size carbon structures by plasma jets emitted from a pulsed capillary discharge
Planning with Preferences
Semantic search in the WWW supported by a cognitive model
Planning under uncertainty as GOLOG programs

ConferencePaper (21)

Work in progress: Engaging engineering teaching staff in continuous improvement process
Polynomial-time reformulations of LTL temporally extended goals into final-state goals
Reusing previously found A? paths for fast goal-directed navigation in dynamic terrain
Diagnostic problem solving via planning with ontic and epistemic goals
Making A? run faster than D?-lite for path-planning in partially known terrain
Real-Time Pathfinding in Unknown Terrain via Reconnection with an Ideal Tree
Assumption-based planning: Generating plans and explanations under incomplete knowledge
Moving target search with compressed path databases
Reconnecting with the ideal tree: An alternative to heuristic learning in real-time search
Weighted real-time heuristic search
Making reasonable assumptions to plan with incomplete information: Abridged report
Paper summary: Time-bounded adaptive A*
Position paper: Incremental search algorithms considered poorly understood
Time-bounded adaptive A
Escaping heuristic hollows in real-time search without learning
Fast subgoaling for pathfinding via real-time search
Preferred explanations: Theory and generation via planning
Real-time adaptive A* with depression avoidance
Real-time heuristic search with depression avoidance
Diagnosis as planning revisited
On procedure recognition in the situation calculus

Proyecto (5)

Extending and Generalizing Real-Time and Incremental Heuristic Search
Extending and Generalizing Real-Time and Incremental Heuristic Search
Indoor scene and object recognition by a mobile robot using visual grammars and machine learning techniques
Planning Technology to Automate the Diagnosis of Dynamical Systems
Planning Technology to Automate the Diagnosis of Dynamical Systems
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Jorge Baier

Profesor Asociado

Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4
Carlos Hernández

Profesor Titular

Universidad San Sebastián

Santiago, Chile

3
Nicolás Rivera

Investigador

Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

3
Roberto Asín

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Informática

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

San Joaquín, Chile

1
Heman Bhuyan

Associate Professor

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE (PUC)

santiago, Chile

1
Mario Favre

Profesor Titular

Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Miguel Nussbaum

Full professor

Engineering

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Gonzalo Avaria

Investigador

Ciencias Nucleares

COMISIÓN CHILENA DE ENERGÍA NUCLEAR

Santiago, Chile