Felipe Meneguzzi

Welcome to my personal page

I am a researcher on multiagent systems, BDI agent reasoning and normative reasoning. I am currently an Associate Professor (although my job is closer to a Lecturer in Britain) at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Prior to that, I worked as a Project Scientist in Multiagent Systems at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the same university with Professor Katia Sycara.

I obtained my PhD degree at King's College London, with a thesis on Extending agent languages for multiagent domains under the supervision of Professor Michael Luck. At King's I was part of the Agents and Intelligent Systems Group. I started my studies at the University of Southampton in 2005, and moved to King's College London in September of 2006.

Prior to my full-time academic career, I worked in the industry as a contractor for Hewlett-Packard Brazil, and worked on a variety of projects with some very interesting people. Previously I was a research assistant at FACIN/PUCRS, and an MSc student in Computer Science at PPGCC/PUCRS, where I also obtained my undergraduate degree. Information about my academic and professional career can be checked out in my complete CV, or in a more academic CV.

I have chaired the AAAI Symposium on Proactive Assistant Agents, and serve in the programme committee of the following conferences (and in the past):

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI);
• 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS);
• 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA);
• Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation IX (ABC:MI);.

I also regularly serve as a reviewer for the following journals:

• Knowledge Engineering Review (KER) from Cambridge Press;
• Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) from Elsevier;
• Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS) from Springer; and
• Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS) from IOS Press.

Research Interests

My research interests include Autonomous Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, Planning Systems, and Artificial Intelligence in general. I am also interested in Programming Techniques such as Object-Oriented Programming, Object Patterns, Agent-Oriented Programming and Fault-Tolerance. While working for HP I was involved in research on Digital Publishing tools and techniques, involving Variable Data Documents, Markup Languages and XML-based standards. Besides these areas, I try to keep up to date with developments on the Game Development community.