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I am a fourth year Ph.D. student at the University of Birmingham. My research is on gaze allocation during visually guided manipulation in robots. [More...]

  :: Research ::

My main interests lie within the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. In particular, decision making problems and learning. My Ph.D. topic involves developing principled ways for the coordination of gaze and physical actions in a robot. The main problem for the robot is to decide where to look in order to gather relevant information for the completion of some task. The idea is to model the coordination problem in a reward-based mechanism. [More...]

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  :: Short Biography ::

Previously, I was an adjunct professor (lecturer) at the Computing and Informatics Department at the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi. I am the editor and webmaster of the Mexican Robotics Association website.

•   PhD Computer Science, 2009 - (fourth year)
    University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science, Birmingham, UK
    Supervisor: Jeremy Wyatt
    Co-Supervisor: Richard Dearden
    Thesis: Visually Guided Control in Concurrent Decision Making Problems
   
•   MS Computer Science, 2004 - 2006
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Advisor: Milos Hauskrecht
    Thesis: Development of a High Level Language Based on Rules for the RoboCup Soccer Simulator
   
•   BS Computer Engineering, 1997 - 2002
    Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, S.L.P., Mexico
   

  :: Curriculum ::

Curriculum Vitae [español pdf] [english pdf]
 

  :: Contact ::

Jose Ignacio Nunez Varela
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School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
office: 144
telephone: 0121 41 42884
email: j.i.nunez (at) cs.bham.ac.uk
web: http://ciep.ing.uaslp.mx/jnunez/