Sebastian Sardina's Short Bio

Sebastian Sardina is a Professor in Artificial Intelligence at RMIT University within the School of Computing Technologies. He completed his PhD and M.Sc at the University of Toronto (Canada) and, before that, a BSc in Computer Science at South National University in Bahia Blanca (Argentina).

Sebastian’s research falls in the intersection between knowledge representation, AI planning, and intelligent agents. His research seeks better representation models and algorithms for programming goal-oriented controllers operating in dynamic environments. Together with his many collaborators and students (for which he feels extremely lucky and grateful!), he has contributed significantly to the integration of agent programming languages with planning and learning capabilities, the study and development of advanced forms of planning, and the development of goal/intention recognition techniques for intelligent agents. His work appears regularly in the main AI scientific publication outlets, such as IJCAI, AAAI, AIJ, JAIR, AAMAS, ICAPS and KR, and many of his papers have received paper awards or nominations.

Sebastian’s teaching has focused on course related to the mathematical foundations of Computer Science. He has also been involved in bringing Computational Thinking to the community, particularly to children and youth, by delivering hands-on workshops and talks to students and educators. He has recently been part of the panel at VCAA conducting the study design review for the new Algorithmics (HESS) VCE program.

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Sebastian Sardina is a Professor in Artificial Intelligence at RMIT University, with a PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada) and a Bachelor from the South National University (Argentina). Sebastian’s research falls in the intersection between knowledge representation, AI planning, and intelligent agents, seeking representation models and algorithms for programming complex controllers in dynamic systems. At uni, he teaches courses related to the mathematical foundations of Computer Science; outside uni he tries to bring Computational Thinking closer to children and youth.

Too “boring”?

Sebastian Sardina has unintentionally “grew” from a child liking Computers and Coding to a Professor in AI at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is extremely grateful to many (and a LOT to some who need not to be mentioned) who inspired, helped, and supported him all the way, from his Bachelor in CS in Argentina to his Master and PhD in Canada to his postdoc and more in Australia. He is somehow known for his work in AI knowledge representation, planning, and agent programming on models and algorithms for reasoning about dynamic systems. He is also known (by many students, in particular) for his math-oriented courses, and recently for his efforts to bring Computational Thinking to younger people in the community. If anything, Sebastian has been very lucky so far…