I am a researcher on automated planning, autonomous agent reasoning, goal recognition and machine learning. I currently work as an Associate Professor at PUCRS in Brazil.Prior to joining PUCRS I was a Research Scientist at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. I am currently a councillor in the Executive Council of the AAAI, and a board member of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence for the Brazilian Computer Society for the period of 2021 to 2022.I obtained my PhD degree at King's College London, with a thesis on Extending agent languages for multiagent domains under the supervision of Professor Michael Luck. At King's I am part of the Agents and Intelligent Systems Group. I started my studies at the University of Southampton in 2005, and moved to King's College London in September of 2006.I also worked in the industry as a contractor for Hewlett-Packard Brazil, and worked on a variety of projects with some very interesting people. Previously I was a re