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											</span></p></div></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4 panel panel-light-blue panel-condensed equal-height"><div class="panel-body"><h2 class="panel-subheading text-uppercase">See Also:</h2><ul class="list-unbulleted"><li style="margin-bottom:0.33em"><!--unknown--><a href="https://francescofabiano.github.io/" class="panel-link">Personal Webpage</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><h2>Interests</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>I am a Computer Scientist specializing in <em>multi-agent systems</em>, <em>epistemology</em>, <em>autonomous planning</em>, and <em>neuro-symbolic AI</em>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>I started exploring the field of scientific research during my Master&rsquo;s studies, where my thesis on <em>Multi-Agent Epistemic Planning</em> introduced me to the fields of <em>logics</em> and <em>Knowledge Representation</em>. </span><span>Later, over the course of my Ph.D., I conducted extensive research focused on diverse methods of representing knowledge and beliefs and in creating an hybrid architecture, following the System-1/System-2 paradigm, for solving planning problems. </span><span>Currently, I am part of the UKRI AI Hub project at the&nbsp;</span><a class=" lazyloaded" rel="noopener" href="https://www.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.ox.ac.uk/">University of Oxford</a>,<span>&nbsp;which is focused on investigating the Computational Foundations of AI, and particularly <em>Understanding Decision Making</em>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>I find this last research strand very appealing as, beyond advancing technology, it addresses significant ethical questions that we, as computer scientists, must investigate to ensure that our work produces trustworthy tools that could actually improve our society</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span>Publications</span></h2>
<p><span>A complete list of my publications can be found on my <a rel="noopener" href="https://dblp.org/pid/221/6112.html" target="_blank">DBLP</a> and <a rel="noopener" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W6JOvEIAAAAJ" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a> pages, as well as in my <a rel="noopener" href="https://francescofabiano.github.io/" target="_blank">Personal Webpage</a>.</span></p><h2>Supervisors</h2><div class="row"><div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="picturebox col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3  clear-xs clear-sm clear-md clear-lg"><a class="piccy" href="/people/Alessandro.Abate/" style="background-image:url('/files/11094//aabate_2_low.jpg')"></a><center><a href="/people/Alessandro.Abate/"><span class="newcaption"><span itemprop="name">Alessandro&nbsp;Abate</span></span></a></center></div><div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="picturebox col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 "><a class="piccy" href="/people/Giuseppe.DeGiacomo/" style="background-image:url('/files/14949//Giuseppe%20De%20Giacomo%20-Viso.pdf')"></a><center><a href="/people/Giuseppe.DeGiacomo/"><span class="newcaption"><span itemprop="name">Giuseppe&nbsp;De Giacomo</span></span></a></center></div></div>
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