Bio
Since October 2008, I am a full-time postgraduate research student at the Centre for Research in Computing at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. I am now in the third year of my studies (estimated submission: May 2012), working on computational models of non-cooperative dialogue. My supervisors are Paul Piwek and Richard Power from the Natural Language Generation Group.
In 2010, I spent 12 weeks working as a summer intern at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies in Playa Vista, California. Under the supervision of David DeVault and David Traum from ICT’s Natural Language Dialogue Group, I designed a new scenario for the SASO series of virtual human systems, and implemented a prototype.
Before coming to Milton Keynes, in September 2008, I completed my Licenciatura (similar to a European Master’s degree) in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Rosario, Argentina. My graduate thesis was on software verification and is available here. It was supervised by Ralph-Johan Back and Johannes Eriksson from the Department of Information Technologies at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, where I spent 6 months in 2007 as a research assistant.
Between June 2002 and February 2004, I lived in Lisbon, Portugal, where I worked as an Analyst/Programmer for ATX Software SA. From April to June 2003, I received a Research Initiation Grant from the Foundation of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. I was supervised by Michel Wermelinger and Cristovão Oliveira in extending Community Workbench (the IDE for an architecture description language) to support mobility.
