Associate Professor Paulo Santos

Paulo Santos received his PhD degree in artificial intelligence from Imperial College, London, UK in 2003, working on the development of spatial reasoning systems for mobile robots under the supervision of Murray Shanahan. He was a research assistant at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK (2003-2005), working on a European Union funded project for the development of Cognitive Vision Systems, under the supervision of Anthony Cohn and David Hogg. Dr. Santos led a research group in AI and Robotics in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2005-2019), conducting a number of research projects of industrial interest. During this period, Dr. Santos was also a visiting researcher at the following world-class institutions: University of Leeds, UK (2007, 2010); Ryerson University, Canada (2010), Bremen University, Germany (2012); Coruna University, Spain (2014), and has received funding from various international sources (such as the British Council, Santander Universia, the European Union). Currently Dr. Santos is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, developing research on the integration of Automated Reasoning with Deep Learning models towards explainable AI systems.