Fernando Fernández Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA email: my first name@cs.cmu.edu tel:(412) 268-5939, fax (412) 268 4801 office: Wean Hall 1307 I have moved to University Carlos III of Madrid New email address: ffernand at inf dot uc3m dot es

I am a postdoctoral fellow working in the CORAL group with Prof. Manuela Veloso. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), Spain, in 2003, advised by Prof. Daniel Borrajo. I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science in 1999 also from UC3M. Since '99 I became assistant and associate professor of the Computer Science Department at UC3M. In the summer and fall of 2000, I was a visiting student at the Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee), advised by Prof. Lynne E. Parker.


RESEARCH INTEREST:

My research interests are machine learning and planning. My PhD thesis is about Reinforcement Learning in continuous state spaces. I also have worked in supervised learning, specifically in Nearest Prototype Classification. Some of the application domains that I have used are robot soccer, multi robot systems, adaptive educational systems, and tourism support tools.


RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

(Visit also the CORAL research publications page, or my complete list of publications).

• Machine learning of plan robustness knowledge about instances. Sergio Jiménez, Fernando Fernández and Daniel Borrajo. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'05). October 2005.
• Building a Library of Policies through Policy Reuse . Fernando Fernández and Manuela Veloso. Technical Report CMU-CS-05-174. Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. July 2005.
• Learning by Probabilistic Reuse of Past Policies . Fernando Fernández and Manuela Veloso. Technical Report CMU-CS-05-173. Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. July 2005.
• Exploration and Policy Reuse . Fernando Fernández and Manuela Veloso. Technical Report CMU-CS-05-172. Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. July 2005.
• A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Cooperative Multi-Robot Domains. Fernando Fernández, Daniel Borrajo and Lynne Parker. Journal of Intelligent Robotics Systems, 2005. To appear.
• Evolutionary Design of Nearest Prototype Classifiers.  Fernando Fernández and Pedro Isasi. In Journal of Heuristics 10(4). 2004.
• An Experience Applying Reinforcement Learning in a Web-based Adaptive and Intelligent Educational System. Ana Iglesias , Paloma Martínez and Fernando Fernández . In Informatics in Education, I.J. 2. 2003.
• On Determinism Handling While Learning State Space Representations. Fernando Fernández ,Daniel Borrajo. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'02). Lyon. France. 2002.