Welcome to Fabio Cozman's Home Page

Who I am:

Fabio Gagliardi Cozman, Full Professor at the Engineering School (Escola Politénica) at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. I work in the Department of Mechatronics and Mechanical Systems, in the Decision Making Lab.
I am from Brazil. I took Electrical Engineering (and then a Master in Engineering) at University of Sao Paulo; then I went to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisor was Eric Krotkov, the Great. I was in the VASC group, working with the Lunar Rover project, and more specifically in the Viper system. I finished my PhD there and returned to the University of Sao Paulo.
I like to play tennis, and used to play some soccer; while at CMU, I used to play soccer with the Robotics team, the Viking Death Rats. I was captain of the team for four years (we were Intramurals champions in 1995). I also like to read, even though I have not been able to read as much as I want since my son was born (in 1996...!).

I work within the broad area of artificial intelligence, mostly with machine learning and knowledge representation.
- I have worked with probabilistic reasoning, both with machine learning techniques and with the representation of facts, rules and beliefs. I have kept a particular interest in Bayesian networks and related models (the JavaBayes system is my implementation of Bayesian Networks in Java; also take a look at the page for the Interchange Format for Bayesian networks).
- I have worked with various alternatives to the theory probabilities, in particular credal sets. You can take a look at the web site of the Society for Imprecise Probability Theory and Applications (SIPTA); I'm a founding member of this society and I was the society's president for a while.
- Apart from these issues, I have worked in a variety of applications, mostly in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence; in the past I have been particularly involved with mobile robots and their sensors.
Maybe you should look at some of my publications (there is a list of selected publications, from which you can grasp the topics I have been interested in, and a complete list of publications). If you are interested in any of my publications, take look at the errata!