SERINA Ivan

Ivan Serina is associate professor in Information Processing Systems at the Dept. of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia, Italy. In 1995 he received his degree in Computer Science at the University of Milan with full marks and honours. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the University of Brescia, headed by Professor Alfonso Gerevini, working on various topics such as Plan Generation and Adaptation through Local and Systematic Search Techniques. In 2000 he received his PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Brescia and in 2003 he received a Marie Curie Fellowship in the field of Planning and Scheduling at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences of the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow). He worked at the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano from 2008 to 2012.

He participated in the 3rd International Planning Competition (2002) with LPG, a planner developed with Professor Alfonso Gerevini that was awarded for "Distinguished performance of the first order"; he participated in the 4th International Planning Competition (2004) with LPG-td, a planner developed with Professor Alfonso Gerevini and Ing. Alessandro Saetti that was awarded for its performance in temporal and numeric domains. He has been reviewer of several International Journals and Conferences such as JAIR, Artificial Intelligence, ICAPS and IJCAI. He was Co-chair with Neil Yorke-Smith (American University of Beirut, Lebanon and SRI International, USA) of the ICAPS-2010 Exhibits and Demonstrations Session and co-chair of the Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling in 2013 and 2015. Currently, he is co-chair of the International Workshop "Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion" (RCRA17) and Member of the Program Committees of ICAPS 2018, IJCAI 2018 and AAAI 2018.