Teaching staff

BASILIO SIERRA ARAUJO

Knowledge area

Science of Computation and Artificial Intelligence

Department

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Centre

Faculty of Informatics

Electronic mail

b.sierra@ehu.eus

Unibertsitateko Katedraduna /Catedrático de Universidad/ Full Professor



Basilio Sierra is Full Professor in the Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Department at the University of the Basque Country. He received his BSc in Computer Sciences in 1990, MSc in Computer Science and Architecture in 1992 and PhD in Computer Sciences in 2000 at the University of the Basque Country. He is the director of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group in Donostia-San Sebastian. Professor Sierra is presently a researcher in the fields of Robotics, Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and he is working on the development of different paradigms to improve classification behaviors; he has written more than 50 journal papers in those fields, as well as more than 100 conference contributions and more than 50 book chapters.



Research Interests



Improve robot autonomy by means of Machine Learning paradigms:



Supervised Classification

One-Class classification

Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition

Nearest Neighbor algorithm

Genetic Algorithms, Estimation of distribution algorithms

Bayesian networks

Applications in Medicine

Machine Learning and Data Mining in general