Sebastian Uchitel
Sebastián Uchitel
About
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I am the Director of the Computer Science Research Institute (ICC) of the University of Buenos Aires and CONICET. I am also the head of LaFHIS - Laboratory on Fundamentals and Tools for Software Engineering. I am a Full Professor at the Department of Computing, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Principal Researcher for CONICET. I am also a professor at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK and visiting professor at the Japanese National Insitute of Informatics |
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Prospective students
If you are looking for supervision for your MSc/Licenciado thesis, you can find some projects I am interested in here: (Spanish). If you are interested in pursuing a PhD, send me an email.
Research
My research interests are in the broad area of Automated Software Engineering. I focus on foundational aspects that can be exploited in tools for supporting automated reasoning, tools for which a body of meta-properties proven mathematically and experimentally exist. Currently, my main research threads are related to discrete event controller synthesis and AI planning applied to robotics, adaptive systems, requirements engineering and business process management.
My daughter's take on my research.
Publications
There are various sources from where my publications can be listed: dblp, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search.
Much of the research I am involved feeds into and is validated by tools we build. Most of my more recent work gets implemented as part of MTSA that supports partial behaviour model specification and analysis and also controller synthesis techniques. Other tools are not so well packaged but are available via my students and collaborators.
Professional Societies
- Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Member of the IFIP Working Group 2.9. on Software Requirements Engineering
Selected Awards and Honours
- Member of the National Academy of Exact, Physics and Natural Sciences, 2020.
- Bernardo Houssay Prize, Ministry of Science, Argentina, 2015.
- Konex Foundation Awards, 2013.
- StG Award, European Reseach Council, 2009.
- Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust, 2005
- Newly Appointed Lecturers Award, Nuffield Foundation, 2004
Selected External Activities
- Board Member, Communications of the ACM, ACM, 2018 - 2020
- Board of Directors, YPF, 2012-2015.
- Associate Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2006 - 2010
- General Chair, International Conference on Software Engineering, Buenos Aires, 2017
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2006 - 2010
- Associate Editor, Springer Requirements Engineering Journal, 2008 - 2018
- Associate Editor, Elsevier Science of Computer Programming, 2013 - 2018
- Program co-Chair, International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Tokyo, 2006
- Program co-Chair, International Conference on Software Engineering, Cape Town, 2010.
Student supervision
- Currently (Co-)Supervised PhD students:
- Mariano Cerrutti, University of Buenos Aires
- Sebastian Zudaire, Insituto Balseiro
- Ivan Postolski, Univeristy of Buenos Aires
- Alexis Soifer, University of Buenos Aires
- Past (Co-) Supervised PhD students
