Juan Carlos Nieves Sánchez

Email: jcnieves at lsi dot upc dot edu

 I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Software Department (LSI) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and member of the Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning Group. In the period between 2002 and 2004, I was working as system programmer in the Division of Economic Research of the Central Bank of México (BANXICO).  

 
 

 

 

Research Interests:

Knowledge Base Systems with application domains in: Energy systems (SmartGrid), Environmental Systems, Medicine, Social Networks.

Argumentation (an useful Link).

Declarative programming.

Education:

Ph. D. in Artificial Intelligence

2004- 2008                Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)             Barcelona, Spain

M.S. in Computer Science

1999-2001                  Universidad de las Américas - Puebla (UDLA)         Puebla,   México

B. S. in Computer Science, 

1994-1999                  Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)   Puebla,   México

Publications

 

Honors and Awards:

1. Excellence scholarship, by the BUAP, 1998

2. Member of Dean's List UDLA 2000.

3. Cum Laude by UDLA, 2001.

4. Second place in the national contest of graduate thesis by the ANIEI, A. C., 2001, México.

5. Ph. D. Scholarship, by CONACYT, 2004.

6. Cum Laude by UPC, 2008.

7. Accepted to the National System of Researchers of Mexico in the call of 2009 (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de CONACyT Nivel 1, 2010-2012).

 

Research Projects with some participation


Project: ASPIC - Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components (2004-2007). Project type: European Project

Project: ALIVE - Coordination, Organisation and Model Driven Approaches for Dynamic, Flexible, Robust Software and Services Engineering (2008-2010). Project type European Project

Project: SMARTGRID- ENERGOS Technologies for automated and intelligent management of power distribution networks of the future (2010-2012). Project type: CENIT project

Project: PARKINECTIS - Electromobility Living Lab - Accelerating knowledge acquisition about electric vehicle. Project type: Industrial Research Project (ACC1Ó program of the government of Catalunya-Spain)

Project: Management of Urban Wastewater Systems. Project type: Local Project supported by KEMLG (UPC) and LIQUIA (University of Girona) .

Other academic activities

PC MEMBER


9th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics - ICT @ SmartGrids (INDIN), 2011.
Conference of the IberoAmerican Society of Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA), 2010
Mexican International Conference in Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), 2009, 2010, 2011.
Latin American Workshop on New Methods of Reasoning (LA-NMR), 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC), 2011.
International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (CONIELECOMP), 2012.

REVIEWER


Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE).
Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP).
Iberoamerican Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Inteligencia Artificial).
European Symposium on Programming (ESOP), 2008.
International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), 2006.
Mexican International Conference in Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), 2007, 2008.
Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC), 2006, 2008, 2009.
Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, 2005, 2006.
Latin-American Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LA-NMR), 2007.
Workshop of Answer Set Programming: Advances in Theory and Implementation, 2007.
Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR), 2009.
The international Conference on Digital Business (DIGIBIZ), 2009