Angel Pasqual del Pobil

A short biography

 

             Angel Pasqual del Pobil is Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Jaume I University (Spain) and founder director of the UJI Robotic Intelligence Laboratory. He holds a B.S. in Physics (Electronics, 1986) and a Ph.D. in Engineering (Robotics, 1991), both from the University of Navarra. In the period 1986-1991 he also did research at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at the C.E.I.T. (Center for Technical Research and Studies) in San Sebastian (Spain) and at A.M.A.I.A. (Architectures, Methodes et Applications en Informatique Avancee) in Bayonne (France). His Ph.D. Thesis was the winner of the 1992 National Award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors. He has been Co-Chair of two Technical Committees of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society: the Robot Motion & Path Planning TC (1997-2004) and the Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems TC (2009-). He is AdCom member of EURON (European Robotics Research Network of Excellence, 2001-), and has been EURON Co-Chair for Research Key Area (2004-2008), and Vice President of the International Society of Applied Intelligence (Texas, 1996-1999). He has over 190 publications, including nine books: Spatial Representation and Motion Planning, Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Methodology and Tools in Knowledge-Based Systems with Springer; Practical Motion Planning in Robotics (Wiley), and the Acta Press Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing series (2004-2008). Prof. del Pobil was co-organizer of some 30 workshops and tutorials including: three at ICRA (1996, 2000 and 2010), eight at IROS (2000, 2004-2010), three at RSS (2008-2010), ECAI'04, ICAR'05 and ACM HRI 2010. He was Program Co-Chair of the 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and General Chair of five editions of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (2004-2008). He is Associate Editor for ICRA (2009-2010) and IROS (2007-2010) and has served on the program committees of 90 international conferences, such as IJCAI, ICPR, ICRA, IROS, EUROS, IAS, ICAR, CIRA, DRHE, IEA/AIE, IWANN, IWINAC, etc. The UJI Robotic Intelligece Lab has organized 10 consecutive editions of IURS, the International UJI Robotics School. He has been General Chair for IURS 2005 on Robotics and Neuroscience, IURS 2006 on Humanoid Robots, and IURS 2009 on Visuomotor Coordination. He has been involved in robotics research for the last 23 years, his past and present research interests include: humanoid robots, service robotics, internet robots, motion planning, mobile manipulators, visually-guided grasping, robot perception, multimodal sensorimotor transformations, robot physical interaction, visual servoing, robot learning, developmental robotics, and the interplay between neurobiology and robotics. Professor del Pobil has been invited speaker of 45 tutorials, plenary talks, and seminars. He serves as associate or guest editor for seven journals, including the new Springer journal Intelligent Service Robotics, and as expert for research evaluation at the European Commission and the National Science Foundation. He has supervised 13 Ph.D. Thesis, including finalists to the Georges Giralt EURON PhD Award and the Robotdalen Scientific Award. He has been Principal Investigator of 27 research projects. Recent projects at the Robotic Intelligence Lab funded by the European Commission include: FP6 GUARDIANS (Group of Unmanned Assistant Robots Deployed In Aggregative Navigation supported by Scent detection), FP7 EYESHOTS (Heterogeneous 3-D Perception Across Visual Fragments), FP7 GRASP (Emergence of Cognitive Grasping through Emulation, Introspection, and Surprise), and FP7 TRIDENT (Marine Robots and Dexterous Manipulation for Enabling Autonomous Underwater Multipurpose Intervention Missions).

 

 

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