Hector Palacios
AI Planning Engineer at C-Infinity
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolHector Palacios is an AI Planning Engineer and Research Scientist with over 15 years of experience advancing machine learning, generative models, and symbolic planning for task-oriented dialogue and embodied agents. He has led research and product-facing projects at ServiceNow and Element AI, won the ALFRED challenge for embodied agents, and published 30+ papers with an H-index of 11 and 900+ citations. Hector blends NeuroSymbolic methods and search-based planning to improve LLM generalization, robustness, and interpretability, and recently shifted to applying symbolic planning in manufacturing systems that generate operator-executable procedures from CAD. He has held academic roles, chaired NeurIPS areas and served as an editor for TMLR, signaling strong community leadership beyond hands-on engineering. Comfortable in Python, C++, Java and with tools like PyTorch and Hugging Face, he pairs deep research rigor with practical delivery of scalable AI solutions. An easter-egg of his career: his early work led to a patent on planning and diagnosis filed during an internship at PARC.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ms, Computer Science, Ms, Computer Science at Universidad Simón BolívarPhD, Information and Communication Technologies, PhD, Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu FabraEngineer, Computing, Engineer, Computing at Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Bolívar
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
planning9
q-learning8
jekyll-theme8
sat8
gymnasium8
minizinc8
jekyll8
responsive8
pddl8
reinforcement-learning7
python7
deep-reinforcement-learning7
shell7
eclipse6
macos6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hectorpal/translation-based-planners
Feb 2020 - Feb 2023
Translation-based conformant planners
Contributions:4 commits, 16 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 11 months
hectorpal/hectorpal.github.io
Dec 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:51 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
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