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.
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)
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. From 2019 til
2024, Hector was a Guest
Wallenberg Professor at Linkoping University.
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.
