Curriculum Vitæ
Name: Address: Maria Vanina Martinez 1103 A. V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park College Park, MD 20742 United States of America 301-405-1765 (Office) www.cs.umd.edu/~mvm
Telephone Number: Personal and Academic Web Page 1. Studies: •
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park. o o Supervisor: V.S. Subrahmanian Area of Interest: Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Reasoning under Uncertainty Inconsistency Management Cultural Modeling Defeasible Reasoning o o o Expected Date of Graduation: Spring 2011 Graduate Cumulative GPA: 3.888 Graduate Courses and Grades (see Section 6)
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“Licenciada” in Computer Science, year 2005.
GPA: 9.50 / 10.00 points - GPA (4.0 scale): 3.8
Thesis title: Communication among BDI Agents: A Proposal for bearing Argumentation-based Negotiation (in Spanish, Grade: 10/10) Department of Computer Science and Engineering Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
2. Languages • • Spanish: Native language. English: o o • • TOEFL (Score: 108/120) - November 4, 2005. 6th. Seniors Level completed at “Asociación Bahiense de Cultura Inglesa”, year 1998.
Modern Greek, Level I. Professor Mario Ritacco, Department of Humanities, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Attendance. German: First Level completed (Grade: 8/10) at “Sociedad Alemana Bahía Blanca”, year 2001.
3. Past Teaching Positions • Teaching Assistant in the Problem Analysis and Comprehension preparation course for freshmen. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur (2003, 2004, and 2005). Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in the following courses: a. Problem Solving and Algorithms (from 2001 to 2002). b. Elements of Programming (2002). c. Fundamentals of Computer Science (2003). d. Logic for Computer Science (from 2004 to 2005) e. Database Theory and Design (2004). f. Programming Languages (2005) Teacher at “Escuela de la Ciudad” elementary school for the third grade computer lab (from 2004 to 2005).
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4. Research Position: • Graduate Research Assistant in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) under the supervision of Dr. V. S. Subrahmanian (August 2006-present). 5. Scholarships • Gannon Summer GRA Award for first year Ph.D. students pursuing a research project, granted by the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, for Summer 2007. Project Proposal: “Tractable Methods for Predicting an Opponent’s Most Probable Actions.” Block Fellowship in recognition of academic excellence and contributions to the field of Computer Science, awarded by the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, for the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 academic years. Full tuition remission for the Ph.D. in computer Science Program in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland College Park, awarded by this institution beginning Fall 2006. Initial research scholarship, awarded by the “Universidad Nacional del Sur” university, for the year 2005.
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6. Graduate Courses • Creativity Support Tools – Given by Dr. Vibha Sazawal, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Spring 2008. Grade: A. Sentiment Analysis – Given by Dr. V.S. Subrhamanian, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Spring 2008. Grade: A+.
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Complexity Theory – Given by Dr. William Gasarch, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Fall 2007. Grade: A. Empirical Research Methods for Computer Science – Given by Dr. Adam Porter, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Fall 2007. Grade: A. Computational Geometry – Given by Dr. David Mount, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Spring 2007. Grade: A. Advanced Topics in Information Processing: Probabilistic Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence and Databases – Given by Dr. VS Subrahmanian, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Spring 2007. Grade: A+. Artificial Intelligence Planning – Given by Dr. Dana Nau, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Spring 2007. Grade: B. Advanced Topics in Information Processing: Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence – Given by Dr. Donald Perlis, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Fall 2006. Grade: A. Advanced Topics in Information Processing: Sensors and Mobile Data Tracking – Given by Dr. Nick Roussopoulos, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Fall 2006. Grade: A-. Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: How to do Research – Given by Dr. Clyde Kruskal, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, Fall 2006. Grade: Approved. Advanced Topics in Multi-agent Systems and Applications – Given by Dr. Alejandro J. García, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the “Universidad Nacional del Sur” university, year 2005. Grade: 10/10. Foundations of Argumentative Systems – Given by Dr. Guillermo R. Simari, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the “Universidad Nacional del Sur” university, year 2005. Grade: 10/10. Meta-Level Aspects of Argumentation – Given by Dr. Anthony Hunter, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the “Universidad Nacional del Sur” university, year 2005. Grade: 10/10. Development of Internet Aplications – Given by Dr. Alejandro Zunino, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the “Universidad Nacional del Sur” university, year 2005. Grade: 10/10.
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7. Other Courses • Attendance to the seminar “Secure Communications in the Internet” – given by Lic. Javier Echaiz, on July 6th 2004, “Universidad Tecnológica Nacional Facultad Regional Bahía Blanca” university. Attendance to a LaTeX seminar – given by Dr. Marcelo Falappa, (duration: 10 hours) organized by the Student Center of Computer Science, “Universidad Nacional del Sur” university, during November 2002.
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Attendance to the course “Introduction to Generic Functional Programming” given by Dr. Alberto Pardo (duration: 15 hours), during the 16th School of Information Sciences, organized by the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the “Universidad de Buenos Aires” university, between July 22 and 27, 2002. Attendance to the course “Analysis of the Complexity of Algorithms” given by Dr. Alfredo Viola (duration: 15 hours), during the 16th School of Information Sciences, organized by the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the “Universidad de Buenos Aires” university, between July 22 and 27, 2002. Attendance to the seminar “Security in Networks and Internet”, given between July 1 and 10, 2002 (duration: 12 hours), organized by the Student Branch of the IEEE, Department of Electric Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Attendance to the seminar “Collision Detections in Virtual Environments” – given between September 26 and 29, 2001 (duration: 11 hours), organized by the Student Branch of the IEEE, Department of Electric Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Attendance to the seminar “MSDN OnSite: Actualization Seminar of Microsoft Technology in .NET Architecture”, given on December 12th, Department of Engineering and Computer Science, Universidad Nacional del Sur.
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8. Publications a. Maria Vanina Martinez, Francesco Parisi, Andrea Pugliese, Gerardo I. Simari and V.S. Subrahmanian: “Inconsistency Management Policies.” In Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Sydney, Australia. To appear 2008. b. Vanina Martinez, Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, and V.S. Subrahmanian: “CONVEX: Similarity-based Algorithms for Forecasting Group Behavior.” IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 51-57, Jul/Aug 2008. c. V. Martinez, G. Simari, A. Sliva and V.S. Subrahmanian: “The SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP): Social Network and Analytic Tools for the Real-Time Analysis of Terror Groups.” In Proc. 2008 First Intl. Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction, Phoenix. April 1-2, 2008. d. V.S. Subrahmanian, V. Martinez and D. Reforgiato: “Multimedia Presentation Databases.”, In Encyclopedia of Temporal Databases (eds. T. Ozsu and L. Liu), Springer Verlag, under review, 2008. e. Samir Khuller, Maria Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau, Gerardo Simari, Amy Sliva, and V.S. Subrahmanian: “Action Probabilistic Logic Programs: Scalable Estimation for 1030,000 worlds.” Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 51, no. 2-4, pp. 295-331, December 2007. f. Maria Vanina Martinez, Andrea Pugliese, Gerardo Simari, V.S. Subrahmanian, and Henri Prade: “How Dirty is Your Relational Database? An Axiomatic Approach.” Ninth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitave Approaches to Reasoning under Uncertainty (ECSQARU
2007), pp.103 - 114. October – November, 2007. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4724, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-54075255-4. g. Samir Khuller, Maria Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau, Gerardo Simari, Amy Sliva, and V.S. Subrahmanian: “Finding Most Probable Worlds of Probabilistic Logic Programs.” International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007), pp. 45-59, October 2007. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4772, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-540-75407-7. h. Amy Sliva, Maria Vanina Martinez, Gerardo I. Simari, & V.S. Subrahmanian: “SOMA Models of the Behaviors of Stakeholders in the Afghan Drug Economy: A Preliminary Report”, First International Conference on Computational Cultural Modeling (ICCCD 2007), pp. 78-86 August 27- 28, 2007. AAAI Press, ISBN: 978-1-57735-342-3. i. V.S. Subrahmanian, Massimiliano Albanese, María Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau, Diego Reforgiato, Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, Octavian Udrea, Jonathan Wilkenfeld: "CARA: A Cultural-Reasoning Architecture," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 12-16, Mar/Apr, 2007. Sonia V. Rueda, María Vanina Martinez: “A Framework for Deliberation and Negotiation among BDI Agents”. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol.5 , No. 4, December 2005, pag 334-341.
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k. Sonia V. Rueda, María Vanina Martinez: “Interaction among BDI Argumentative Agents: A Dialogue Games approach.” Proceedings of the IX Argentine Conference on Computer Science (CACIC 2005), pp. 955966. Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina. l. Sonia V. Rueda and María Vanina Martinez: “An Interaction Language for Argumentation-based Negotiation”, Proceedings of the VII Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2005), pages 499-503. Universidad de Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
m. Sonia V. Rueda, María Vanina Martinez and Guillermo R. Simari: “Specifying Agent Interaction Protocols”. Proceedings of the VII Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2005), pages 489-493. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina. 9. Undergraduate Courses Detail of courses in the “Licenciatura” program, including grade:
Problem Solving and Algorithms (10/10) Elements of Algebra (10/10) Mathematical Analysis I (8/10) Elements of Programming (9/10) Discrete Mathematics (9/10) Data Structures and Algorithms (8/10) Fundamentals of Computer Science (7/10) Computer Organization (10/10) Object Oriented Programming (9/10) Mathematical Analysis IIA (9/10) Systems Analysis and Design (10/10) Logic for Computer Science (10/10)
Computer Architecture (10/10) Database Theory and Design (10/10) Probability and Statistics (9/10) Operating Systems (9/10) Algorithms and Complexity (10/10) Programming Languages (10/10) Software Design and Development (10/10) Software Projects Administration and Management (10/10) Artificial Intelligence (10/10) Compilers and Interpreters (10/10) Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Intelligent Agents (10/10) Logic Programming (10/10) Computer Networks and Teleprocessing (10/10) English Sufficiency Exam (Passed)
College Park, Maryland, USA, June 2008
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