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José Santos Reyes

Full Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence


Versión en español

 
Computer Science Department
University of A Coruña
Campus de Elviña
15071 A Coruña
Telephone: +34 981 167000 (Ext 1257,  Ext 1276)

Fax: +34 981 167160
Email: mail_jose.santos



Research

Bioinformatics

Neural Computation
Evolutionary Computing
Autonomous Robotics

      
Publications

Conferences

 

Teaching

 

 

Research

·         Bioinformatics. Main works:

    • Protein secondary and tertiary structure prediction and modeling of protein folding.

Prediction results of SARS-CoV-2 proteins.

·         Neural Computing. Main works:

·         DTB (Discrete Time Backpropagation) algorithm in neural networks with variable synaptic connection temporal delays. Applications in chaotic time series prediction and dynamic reconstruction, QRS complex detection in ECG, ....

·         Gaussian Synapse Networks for pattern recognition.

·         Hybrid connectionism symbolic systems.

·         Neural models of Central Pattern Generators (CPG).

·         Evolutionary Computing. Main works:

·         Evolution of recurrent neural architectures.

·         Evolution of cognitive models for autonomous robots.

·         New models of evolution (macroevolution).

·         Parallelization and distribution of evaluation in evolutionary algorithms.

·         Combination of learning and evolution. Baldwin Effect study.

·         Use in artificial life models.

·         Autonomous robotics. Main works:

·         Incorporation of neural controllers with temporal information treatment.

·         Methodological and practical development of generation and interconnection of behavior controllers.

·         Models of control cognitive mechanisms.

·         Visual processing systems for autonomous robots.

·         Evolutionary robotics.

·         Reinforcement learning.

·         Neural control of biped structures with adaptive CTRNNs and with Synaptic-delay based NNs (more examples with hexapod structures).

 

Publications

 

PhD students in these research topics are welcome. Contact me for discussing opportunities.

 

 

Books        

Vida Artificial. Realizaciones Computacionales. (Artificial Life, in Spanish)






Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence. 11th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2005,  Revised Selected Papers, Marín, R.; Onaindía, E.; Bugarín, A.; Santos, J. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4177, 2006.

 

 

 

 

Part of our work can be followed in Biologically Inspired Robot Behavior Engineering.

 

 

 

Our book, in Spanish, Evolución Artificial y Robótica Autónoma, details the evolutionary robotics discipline.


 

 

Conferences

Some participations in the scientific committee: conferences

 

Last events with participation in the organization:

 

 

Teaching