I am an Associate Professor in Social-aware Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science. I focus on Software Agents, KR, and Non-Monotonic Reasoning.
I am an Associate Professor in Social-aware Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science at Umeå University. I specialize in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field, specifically in topics of multi-agent software, rational agents, knowledge representation, and non-monotonic reasoning. Part of my contributions have been applied and evaluated in different contexts, such as finances, health, sports, ambient intelligence, and e-learning. More info here: https://people.cs.umu.se/esteban/
Currently, I co-lead the Formal Methods for Trustworthy Hybrid Intelligence research group at the Department of Computer Science at Umeå University (Sweden). I am and have been linked to multidisciplinary research and development projects in Finland and Sweden, on topics related to intelligent systems for supporting, recommending, and tutoring human activities related to health, economy, and sports.
Regarding my education, I have a Ph.D. in computer science from Umeå University (Sweden), a master's degree (M.Sc.) in computer science from Malmö University (Sweden), and an engineering degree ( B.Eng.) in electronics and telecommunications from the University of Cauca (Colombia).
I lead two courses:
My teaching philosophy puts a focus on encouraging, inspiring, and working actively to involve students to be part of their education and training, which is called “student-focused”. My goal is to create an environment that enables the students to feel intellectually stimulated and challenged with interesting and provocative questions, while it keeps a sense of comfort, inclusion, and confidence in a positive attitude and feedback from the teacher.
I use problem-based learning where real-world problems are used as running examples in lectures, where external stakeholders (e.g. local companies or authorities) are invited to challenge students with their real problems.
I use different e-tools multiple resources in my lectures, for example, animations in slides, videos, code snippets (i.e. pieces of code), and voting and quiz tools (e.g. Mentimeter). I like to create those pedagogical materials for myself using AI-based tools.