Guillermo Simari
Guillermo Ricardo Simari is an Argentine computer scientist born in the city of Buenos Aires. He is an international leader in Defeasible Reasoning and Argument , a national leader in Logic Programming in Argentina, and one of the leaders of Artificial Intelligence in South America. He has headed the Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Lab at Universidad Nacional del Sur since 1990, where he has personally mentored many internationally known students, such as Juan Carlos Augusto, Alejandro J. García, Marcelo A. Falappa, Carlos I. Chesñevar, Ana G. Maguitman, Pablo R. Fillottrani, Diego C. Martínez, María Laura Cobo, Sebastian Sardiña, Marcelo L. Errecalde, Edgardo Ferretti, Sergio Alejandro Gómez, Nicolás Rotstein, Martín Moguillansky, Andrea Cecchi, Andrea Cohen, Sebastian Gottifredi, Cristhian Ariel Deagustini, and who have had a significant impact in the Spanish and non-Spanish speaking AI communities.
Since December 2018, he is Universidad Nacional del Sur Professor Emeritus of Logic in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Was is co-editor of the
He completed his doctoral degree in 1989 at Washington University in St. Louis under the supervision of Ronald Loui.
