Currículum

Fernando M. Montes González

Maestría en Inteligencia Artificial
Sebastián Camacho No. 5
Zona Centro
Xalapa, Ver., MEXICO
Phone +52 228 8421700, ext. 10204
Phone +52 228 8172957
Fax +52 228 8172855
fmontes@uv.mx

I obtained my degree in Information Technology from the University of Veracruz in my hometown, Xalapa, which is in Veracruz, Mexico. My degree focused on the study of Information Systems related to the business field. I have some experience in working as an IT technician, as I have done some work of this kind. After having applied to a scholarship from the Mexican government (CONACyT), I did a Master's Degree on Artificial Intelligence at the University of Veracruz. After starting my Master's dissertation my research interest started to develop, and I participated in a project called Monots (Monkey-Robots). The aim of this project was the simulation of foraging behavior in the Howler Monkey (Alouatta Palliata). And as part of the same project I worked with the Maes' model of action selection (Behavioral Networks) for carrying out the mentioned simulation. Later, thanks to a scholarship granted by CONACyT, I finished my Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield in the area of Artificial Intelligence. The name of my dissertation was: "A Robot Model of Action Selection in the Vertebrate Brain" and is related to animal behavior, reactive robotics and neuroscience. Among my research interests is to keep working in the area of AI and neurosciences.

Research Interests
My research interests mainly focus on Artificial Intelligence, Behavior Based Robotics, Action Selection Mechanisms, Genetic Algorithms, and recently Neuroscience, specifically the role of Basal Ganglia in Evolutionary Action Selection.

Memberships
Miembro del Sistema Nacional del Investigadores (Nivel I).
Reconocimiento a Perfil Deseable PROMEP.

Teaching
Computación Básica (Facultad de Física), Material del curso (solo intranet).
Inteligencia Artificial (Maestría en Inteligencia Artificial), Material del curso (solo intranet).
Redes Neuronales (Maestría en Inteligencia Artificial), Material del curso (solo intranet).

Seminars
Robotics related topics, Página del Seminario de Robótica.

Projects
- Robótica basada en el Sistema Nervioso Central (Promep 1053/2003).
- Competencias en un Sistema Robótico basado en el Sistema Nervioso Central (SEP-2004-C01-45726) .

Collaborations
- Visiting professor at the Universidade da Coruña (Feb. 2005, Nov. 2006), Coruña, España.
- Visiting researcher at the Laboratoire d' Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes (Nov. 2006, Jun. 2007), Toulouse, France.
- Visiting researcher at the Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life - Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR (Nov. 2007, Jun. 2008), Roma, Italia.
- Sabbatical leave at the Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life - Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR (Aug. 2008 - Jul. 2009), Roma, Italia.

Thesis Supervisor
- DESARROLLO DE UN AMBIENTE DE SIMULACIÓN PARA EL CONTROL DE UN ROBOT KHEPERA. M. en I.A. José A. González Caballero.
- REDES DE COMPORTAMIENTO PARA CONTROL ROBÓTICO. M. en I.A. R. Erandi Barrientos Martínez.
- CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UN SISTEMA ROBÓTICO DE PROPÓSITO MÚLTIPLE. M. en I.A. Daniel G. Flandés Eusebio.
- ALGUNAS APLICACIONES DE LA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL EN BIOINFORMÁTICA (COODIRECCIÓN CON EL DR. MIGUEL ANGEL JIMÉNEZ MONTAÑO). M. en I.A. Rusalky del Angel Ortiz.
- DESARROLLO DE UN ESQUEMA DE SENSADO ULTRASÓNICO CON AJUSTE DE PARÁMETROS USANDO ALGORITMOS GENÉTICOS. Ing. en I. E. Veronica Escobar Ruiz.
- USO DE ALGORITMOS GENÉTICOS PARA LA OPTIMIZACIÓN DE ESPEJOS DE CONCENTRACIÓN SOLAR Y ROBÓTICA MÓVIL. Lic. en Física Pedro Jesús Bautista Cabrera.
- COEVOLUCIÓN PARA UN ESQUEMA DE ESTRATEGIA PRESA-DEPREDADOR. M. en I.A. Luis Pellegrin Zazueta.
- MANEJO DE UN ROBOT KHEPERA MEDIANTE UN MECANISMO DE SELECCIÓN DE ACCIÓN. Francisco Augusto Viveros Castro.

Research Opportunities
Action Selection, Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks, Verano de la Investigación Científica, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias , Programa Delfín.

Publications

1997-2003

Conference Proceedings
- Montes Gonzalez, F., Guerra, A., Martínez M. (1997) Un modelo de conductas animales basado en redes de comportamiento. From the V Meeting of the International Biometrics Society Network for Central America, The Caribbean, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. Xalapa, Veracruz, México.
- Montes Gonzalez, F., Guerra, A., Martínez M. (1997) ABC, una herramienta para implantar modelos basados en redes de comportamiento. en el Primer Encuentro de Computación Enc'97. Querétaro, México.
- Montes-Gonzalez, F., Prescott, T., Gurney, K. (2000) An embodied model of action selection mechanisms in the vertebrate brain. In From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Paris, France.
- Prescott, T. J., Gonzalez, F. M., Humphries, M., and Gurney, K. (2003) Towards a methodology for embodied computational neuroscience. From the Proceedings of the AISB '03 Symposium on Scientific Methods for the Analysis of Agent-Environment Interaction, 7-11th April 2003, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. pp 38-44. (ISBN 1902956323).

Dissertation
An action Selection Mechanism based on Vertebrate Basal Ganglia (2001), Ph.D. Dissertation, Psychology Department, University of Sheffield.

Book Chapters
Prescott, T. J., Gurney, K., Montes-Gonzalez, F., Humphries, M. and Redgrave, P. (2002), THE ROBOT BASAL GANGLIA: Action selection by and embedded model of the basal ganglia. In Basal Ganglia VII, L. F. B. Nicholson and R. Faulls (Eds.) New York: Plenum Press.

Magazines
Montes González, F (2003) Ser o no ser artificial, ese es el dilema... Cultura Democrática Revista Diversa / número 10 (Instituto Electoral Veracruzano). Xalapa, Veracruz, México.

2004

Conference Proceedings
- Montes-González, F. M., and A. Marín-Hernández (2004), Central Action Selection using Sensor Fusion. From Proceedings of the Fifth Mexican International Conference in Computer Science (ENC'04), pp. 289-296.
- Montes-Gonzalez, F. M., and A. Marín-Hernández (2004), The Use of Frontal and Peripheral Perception in a Prey-Catching System. From Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics and Automation 2004, pp. 482-487.
- Montes González, F. M., and Daniel G. Flandes Eusebio (2004), The Development of a Basic Follow-Behavior within a Distributed Framework. From Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Latin American Robotics Symposium - LARS 04, pp. 36-41.

2005

Magazines
Montes González, F M. (2005). Una Metáfora Evolutiva para el desarrollo de Conductas Animales Robóticas, en la Revista Galega de Cooperación Científica Iberoamericana No. 11/2005, pp. 18-22.

Conference Proceedings
- Montes-González, F. M., and J. Santos Reyes (2005), Evolving Robot Behavior for Centralized Action Selection, A. & Gelbukh, R. Monroy. (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence Theory - Research on Computing Science 16, 2005, pp. 213-22.
- Montes González, F. M., Marín Hernández A. and Ríos Figueroa H. (2005), An Effective Robotic Model of Action Selection. From Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA '05). Final version is © Springer-Verlag.

Workshops
- Montes González, F. M., and E. Barrientos Martínez (2005), Selección de Acción usando Redes de Comportamiento para la Resolución Robótica de una Tarea de Forrajeo, Avances en la Ciencia de la Computación 2005; l. Villaseñor, A. Martínez (Eds.); pp. 215-218.
- Flandes Eusebio D. G., and F. M. Montes González (2005), Construcción de un sistema robótico de propósito múltiple, Avances en la Ciencia de la Computación 2005; l. Villaseñor, A. Martínez (Eds.); pp. 203-206.
- Guerra-Hernández, A., Jiménez-Castillo, S. I., Martínez Morales, M., Montes González, F. M. and García-Vega, V. A. (2005), ABC-ApR : A tool for studying plasticity in behavior networks based agents using reinforcement learning. In Computational Ethology, Avances en la Ciencia de la Computación 2005; l. Villaseñor, A. Martínez (Eds.); pp. 174-177.

2006

Journals
Prescott, T. J., F. M. Montes González, K. Gurney, K., M. D. & Humphries f P. Redgrave (2006). A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing. Neural Networks 19 (2006), pp. 31-61.

Conference Proceedings
- Marín-Hernández, A., R. Méndez-Rodríguez, and F. M. Montes-González (2006), Significant Feature Selection in Range Scan Data for Geometrical Mobile Robot, ISRA 2006 Proceedings, ISBN 970-769-070-4.
- Barrientos Martínez, R. and F. M. Montes González (2006), Comparación de Selección de Acción Distribuida con Selección de Acción Central, Avances en Ciencia de la Computación 2006, pp. 320-325.
- Méndez-Rodríguez, R., A. Marín-Hernández, and F. M. Montes-González (2006), Construcción de Mapas Poligonales para la Navegación de Robots Móviles Autónomos, Avances en Ciencia de la Computación 2006, pp. 308-313.
- Flandes Eusebio, D., and F. M. Montes González (2006), Diseño de una arquitectura modular para ambientes semi-estructurados, Memorias del 7o Congreso Internacional en Ciencias Computacionales, CICC 2006, Colima, Colima.
- Garcia-Muñoz, R., H. V. Ríos Figueroa, and F. M. Montes-González (2006), Palmprint recognition using affine moment invariants, Memorias del 7o Congreso Internacional en Ciencias Computacionales, CICC 2006, Colima, Colima.
- Montes-González, F. M., A. Marín Hernández, and H. Ríos Figueroa (2006), An Effective Robotic Model of Action Selection, R. Marín et al. (Eds.): CAEPIA 2005, LNAI 4177, pp. 123-132, 2006.
- Montes-González, F., J. Santos Reyes, and H. Ríos Figueroa (2006), Integration of Evolution with a Robot Action Selection Model, A. Gelbukh and C. A. Reyes-García (Eds.): MICAI 2006, LNAI 4293, pp. 1160-1170, 2006.

Tutorials
F. M. Montes Gonzalez, Robótica Reactiva y Experimentos con el Robot Khepera (2006), Fifth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2006), ISBN 970-94214-1-7.

2007

Journals
- Montes Gonzalez, F., Bautista-Cabrera, P. and Escobar Ruiz, V. (2007) 'The use of evolution in a central action selection model', Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 4:3, 91-100.
- Montes-Gonzalez, F., Prescott, T. J., and Negrete-Martinez J. (2007) 'Minimizing human intervention in the development of basal ganglia-inspired robot control', Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 4:3, 101-109.

Conference Proceedings
- Montes-Gonzalez, F. (2007), The Coevolution of Robot Behavior and Central Action Selection, J. Mira and J.R. Alvarez (Eds.): IWINAC 2007, Part II, LNCS 4528, pp. 439-448, 2007.
- Marin-Hernandez, A., Michel Devy, M., and F. M. Montes-Gonzalez (2007), Perception planning and execution control for a visual and landmark-based navigation task. From Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Latin America Robotic Symposium (LARS 2007), Monterrey, Mexico.

2008

Book Chapters
Montes-Gonzalez, F., Flandes-Eusebio, D. and Pellegrin-Zazueta, L. (2008), Action Selection and Obstacle Avoidance using Ultrasonic and Infrared Sensors. In Frontiers in Evolutionary Robotics, Book edited by: Hitoshi Iba, ISBN 978-3-902613-19-6, pp. 327-340, April 2008, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria.

Conference Proceedings
Montes-Gonzalez, F., Ríos-Figueroa, H., Pellegrin-Zazueta, L. (2008), Hybrid Action Selection. From Proceedings of the Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Humans: Service Robots and Social Modeling (Edited by Grigori Sidorov), pp. 87-95, at the 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008).

2009

Journals
- Suarent, S., Ochoa, A., Sanchez, J., Montes, F. and Spianetta, A. (2009), Evolving Optimization to improve Diorama’s representation using a Mosaic Image, JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS (JCP), Vol. 4, No. 8, August 2009.
- Ochoa, A., Hernandez A., Sanchez, J., Montes, F., Ponce, J. and Janacek, L. (2009), Dyoram’s representation using a Mosaic Image, The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 2009, 8(3): 1-4.

Conference Proceedings
- Ochoa-Zezzatti, A., Montes, F., Sánchez, J., Castañeda, H., González, S. & Ponce J. (2009), Improve Decision Support using Adaptive Data Mining, Proceedings of the XIX International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers CONIELECOMP 2009, pp. 61-64. Published by the IEEE Computer Society. ISBN: 978-0-7685-3587-6. February 26 to 28, 2009. Cholula, Puebla, México.
- Ochoa, A., Montes-Gonzalez, F., Sánchez, J., Hernández, A. and Ponce, J. (2009), Implementing an Intelligent Karaoke to a Social Networking. From Artificial Intelligence & Applications (Edited by A. Gelbukh) - SMIA, pp. 105-114, at the 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2009).

2010

Journals
Montes Gonzalez, F., Alberto Ochoa Ortiz Zezzatti, C., Marin-Urias, L. F. and Sanchez Aguilar, J. (to appear), Hybrid approach in the development of behavior based robotics, Computación y Sistemas, México.

Book Chapters
Ochoa, A., Hernández, A., Cruz, L., Ponce, J., Montes, F., Li, L. & Janacek, L. (to appear), Artificial Societies and Social Simulation using Ant Colony, Particle Swarm Optimization and Cultural Algorithms. In Evolutionary Computation, ISBN 978-953-7619-X-X, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria.

 

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