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Personal Information:

Fabio Gagliardi Cozman: PhD, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
(graduated December 1997; former advisor Eric Krotkov, the Great); Electronic mail: fgcozman@usp.br (preferred) or fgcozman@cs.cmu.edu.

I am from Sao Paulo, Brazil. I took Electrical Engineering at University of Sao Paulo. I then worked at the University on an Autonomous Mobile Robot; as a result, I got a master in Engineering. I worked some more there and then came to the glorious Robotics Institute. I finished my PhD there and went back to the University of Sao Paulo, where I am now an Assistant Professor at the Escola Politécnica (Engineering School).
At CMU, I was a member of the VASC group. Part of my work happened in the context of the Lunar Rover project, specifically in the Viper system.
I like to play tennis and soccer. I used to play tennis with my wife, and I always lost. I used to play soccer with the Robotics team, the Viking Death Rats. I was captain of the team for four years, during which we eventually got the gold (we were Intramurals champions in 1995). I also like to read, particularly French and Russian literature of the ninenteenth century, but I have not been able to read much since my son was born.
Maybe you should look at my publications or at my CV (English/Portuguese), as of March 2001.

In my work on the theory of sets of probabilities, I explore inference and decision-making when probability values are imprecise. I am working with algorithms for computation of probability bounds through linear fractional programming and other forms of optimization. On these lines, you can take a look at the web sites for the First and the Second Symposia on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications (which I co-organized) and the Imprecise Probabilities Project (which I co-edit).
The JavaBayes system is my implementation of Bayesian Networks in Java; the system is distributed under the GNU license. Take a look at it and enjoy the system; one of its unique features is the possibility of modeling sets of probabilities in the networks. Also, a related item is the Interchange Format for Bayesian networks.
Apart from these issues, I have worked in a variety of problems, mostly in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence; I have been particularly involved with mobile robots and their sensors. I worked mostly in the context of the Viper system, where I explored vision techniques for outdoor position estimation.
If you are interested, more information is available.

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