Biography:

Andrés Occhipinti Liberman is an assistant professor at ICAI School of Engineering, Department of Telematics and Computer Science. He teaches natural language processing and foundations of artificial intelligence. He is currently researching ways to improve the reasoning and planning abilities of large language models. His recent research explores how autonomous agents can learn internal representations of their environment and use them for planning. He has a general interest in planning algorithms and mathematical logic, which are topics he has previously worked on.

Before joining ICAI, Andrés was a postdoc in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), within the EU project Representation Learning for Planning (RLeap). Prior to that, he was an external lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he also earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Logic. He holds an M.Sc. in Logic from the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam. Andrés also holds a master's degree in Development and International Aid from Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI, Complutense University), and spent a few years volunteering and working in poverty reduction and development projects in Latin America. Prior to that, he obtained a bachelor's degree in Philosophy at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.