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Raúl Rojas González Resumé Updated: May 2021 1 Personal 1 Raúl Rojas González Resumé Updated: May 2021 1 Personal data Name: Raúl Rojas González Place of birth: Mexico City Nationality: Mexican (by birth) and German (since 1996) • Member of the Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Engineering (Mexico) • Professor of the Year 2014 in Germany • National Science Prize (for Technology) 2015 of Mexico • Member of the Science Advisory Council of the Mexican Presidency • Co-founder of the company Autonomos GmbH (acquired by TomTom) 2 Contact address Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. Raúl Rojas Tel: ++49/30/83875130 Freie Universität Berlin Fax: ++49/30/83875059 FB Mathematik und Informatik Arnimallee 7 [email protected] D-14195 Berlin, Germany www.inf.fu-berlin.de /~rojas 2 3 Education 2016 Doctorate Honoris Causa in Computer Science from INAOE (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Óptica y Electrónica), Mexico. 1994 Habilitation in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin. The Habilitation is a German title that can be only obtained after the PhD. Habilitation thesis: "The Theory of Neural Networks" (in German). Published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 1988 PhD (summa cum laude) at the Otto Suhr Institute, Freie Universität Berlin (PhD in Economics and Social Sciences). Thesis: "On the History of the Critique of Political Economy" (in German). Published by Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin. 1981 Master of Economics at the Department of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 100% of course credits, without graduation. 1980 Master of Science (Mathematics) at the Department of Mathematics, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico. Thesis: "New Results in the Theory of Oscillations of Solutions of Differential Equations" (in Spanish) 1977 Bachelor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico. Ranked first in the class of 1977. Thesis: "Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms" (in Spanish) Additional studies Statistics Graduate Certificate, Stanford University. GPA:4.0. Languages Spanish native language English written and spoken TOEFL (114/120) German written and spoken Goethe Institut (Freiburg) French written and spoken Alianza Francesa (Mexico) Italian written and spoken Instituto Dante Alighieri (Mexico) 3 4 Professional experience (academic positions) From to Institution 1/2015 present Professor for Machine Learning (half-time, Spring terms until 2020), Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV. Full-time since March 2021. 2/2020 2/2021 Launched Aurora Academy at Aurora Innovation, Palo Alto, USA. 9/1997 1/2020 Tenured Professor of Artificial Intelligence (W3) at the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Freie Universität Berlin. Chairman of the Computer Science Institute from 1999 to 2001. 8/2014 1/2015 Visiting Professor (six months, Fall term, during my sabbatical), Center for Information Technology Policy, School of Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 8/2010 12/2010 Visiting Professor (six months, Fall term, during my sabbatical), Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas. 5/2009 5/2009 Visiting Professor, Doctoral Program in Artificial Intelligence, CS Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spring 2009. 9/2008 3/2009 Visiting Professor, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingeniería, Depto. de Computación. 1/2007 5/2007 Visiting Professor (six months, Spring term, during my sabbatical), Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas. 8/2002 12/2002 Visiting Professor (six months, Fall term, during my sabbatical), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Mills College, Oakland, California. 9/1994 8/1997 Tenured Professor of Artificial Intelligence (C3) at the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg. 3/1994 7/1994 Visiting Professor (six months), Institute of Electronics of the Technical University of Vienna, Laboratory of Neural Electronics. 3/1993 7/1993 Visiting Professor (C3, six months), Computer Science Department, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. 9/1989 8/1994 Researcher at the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Freie Universität Berlin. Leader of the Neural Networks group. 9/1986 8/1989 Researcher at the German National Corporation for Mathematics and Computer Science (GMD-FIRST). Member of the Prolog- Machines group. 4/1984 3/1986 Lecturer (part-time) at Freie Universität Berlin and at the Technical College of Berlin. 10/1980 1/1982 Lecturer (part-time) at the School of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 1/1977 5/1981 "Profesor Asociado C" at the School of Mathematics and Physics (ESFM), National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico. 4/1975 1/1982 Leader of the Operating Systems Group at the National Nuclear Research Center, Mexico. 1/1976 12/1976 Systems analyst for the steel company Lázaro Cárdenas-Las Truchas in Mexico City. 1/1974 3/1975 Programmer at the National Nuclear Research Center, Mexico. 4 5 Research visits (with research funding) Year Institution 2010 Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand (December 2010-January 2011). 2006 Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, (Fall quarter 2006). 2003 Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania (Spring term 2003). 2002 Invited Professor at the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning. Stanford University (Fall term 2002). 2000 Visiting Professor at the Center for Mathematics Research (CIMAT), Guanajuato, Mexico (one month). 1998 Senior visitor at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and Distinguished Lecturer at the EE/CS Department, University of California at Berkeley (five months). 1995 Senior visitor at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) with the AI group (two months) 1994 Senior visitor at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) with the speech recognition group (three months). 1993 Senior visitor at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) with the speech recognition group (three months). 5 6 Membership in boards From to country Function 2020 --- USA Member of MIT Review’s Global Panel 2016 --- Spain Inducted as member of the expert network “Los Cien de COTEC”, COTEC Foundation for Innovation, Madrid. 2015 --- Mexico Inducted as member of the Science Advisory Council of the President of Mexico. The council advises the executive in all matters related to science policy. 2015 2016 Germany Inducted as a member of the “Learning Group” of the Audi Urban Future Initiative, based in Munich, Germany. 2015 --- USA Inducted as member of the Advisory Council of CRIT USA (Centro de Rehabilitacion Infantil USA) in San Antonio, Texas, a branch of the Teleton Foundation, Mexico. Member of the Board of Trustees since 2017. 2011 2020 Switzerland Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Robotics, Basel, Switzerland. 2006 2012 Germany Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Information Technology, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich. 2008 2011 Mexico Member of the ditorial board of the journal Computación y Sistemas, published by Centro de Investigación en Computación (CIC) of Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN). 2002 2010 Germany Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Universal Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 2001 2004 USA Member of the Editorial Board of the Iterations Journal published by the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Computing, University of Minnesota. 2000 2005 Japan Member of the Executive Committee of the RoboCup 2013 --- Organization. Since 2013 member of the International Advisory Council. 1999 2008 USA Member of the Editorial Board of the Annals of the History of Computing published by the IEEE. 1999 2005 Germany Member of the Green Academy of the Heinrich-Böll- Foundation. 1998 --- Germany Director of the Konrad Zuse Internet Archiv, a project funded by the German Research Association. 1996 2015 Germany Member of the advisory council of the Journal Künstliche Intelligenz of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, Germany. 7 Awards and distinctions Year Country Award or distinction 2020 Spain Recipient of “Premio Iberoamericano ASICOM-Universidad de Oviedo 2020”, for my professional trajectory in Iberoamerica. Prize presented by the President of Universidad de Oviedo. 2020 Mexico Inducted as member of the Engineering Academy of Mexico, Electronics and Telecommunications Section. 6 2019 Dubai Winner of the “World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport”, academic track, for having demonstrated the best autonomous vehicle in city traffic. The prize (200,000 Dls.) was presented at the World Congress for Self-Driving Transport in Dubai, October 2019 to AutoNOMOS Labs. 2018 Mexico Recipient of the Ruy Perez Tamayo Award from Fondo de Cultura, Mexico, for my unpublished book “El Lenguaje de las Matemáticas: Historias de sus Símbolos”, published in 2018 as part of the award. 15.000 Dls Prize. 2017 Mexico Awarded the Innovation Match 2017 Professional Trajectory Recognition during the meeting of the World Network of Mexican Talent sponsored by the Foreign Ministry of Mexico. 2017 Mexico Named “Honorary Visiting Professor” of Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, (UACJ). The “Cátedra Patrimonial Raúl Rojas” was started, funding one visit of a researcher to UACJ each year. 2017 Mexico The new Laboratory for Autonomous Systems founded by CICATA (Research Center for Applied Science
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