| I am an engineer developing my PhD thesis in the
field of artificial intelligence. I dream of a world where people is released of heavy duties and have more time to enjoy life and their families. I dream of a world where abandoned animals can be treated with all the care they need and deserve. I dream of a world where impaired people are no longer impaired and can enjoy life like anybody else. |
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I work hard for that dream. This is the reason why I conduct a research on neuro-evolved architectures for real robots at the Technical University of Catalonia (U.P.C.) in Spain under supervision of Dr Cecilio Angulo, as part of my Ph.D. thesis planned to be finished by end 2006.
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I believe that working experience is very valuable. It teaches the attitude of focusing on results, that is the real engine for achieving goals. Because of that, previous to my thesis I have been working for the industry for more than six years, performing research and development of electronic circuits applied to the sign market, and also developing control systems for the telecommunication industry based on expert systems. My working experience involved different working environments including standalone and team oriented development, in several places of the world (Spain and United Kingdom), and allowed me to have a focused on results mind. |
| My main interest is the construction of an artificial conscious machine which helps me achieve my dreams. I firmly believe that embodiment is required for it. To start working on this long term goal, at present I do research using evolutionary robotics and unsupervised learning techniques to develop a modular neural architecture that could allow a robot to automatically generate its reasoning and control structure in order to achieve complex behaviors and develop its own internal states and control mechanisms. I hope this could lead in the future towards the generation of a conscious system. |  |
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During my research period, I have achieved to publish several papers,
both technical and popular science, to do a stage at EPFL in Switzerland,
and to give some invited talks in Japan and in Spain. Also, my work
has been covered by several mass media. In any way, the best thing of all that is that I do all this happily and enjoying every minute. |