Nir Lipovetzky
Associate Professor
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNir Lipovetzky is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne with 21 years of experience in automated planning, heuristic search and models of reasoning and learning, grounded in a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra under Hector Geffner. He advances width-based planning for autonomous systems and human-robot interaction, translating theoretical advances into usable toolkits—one of which earned a jury prize at an international planning competition. Nir has blended academic research with practical projects across NASA, industry and education, teaching core AI and algorithms while developing planning solutions for complex supply-chain and scheduling challenges. His background in audio/music technology and early HMM work reveals a multidisciplinary curiosity that informs both algorithm design and human-centered applications.
21 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Spanish, English, French, Italian, Hebrew, Catalan
Github Skills (30)
pacman9
backend9
linux8
frontend7
js6
pddl6
probe6
kubernetes4
data-structures3
heroku3
ipc3
vscode-extension2
plugin2
parser2
modeling2
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
miquelramirez/Arcade-Learning-Environment
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:92 commits, 19 pushes in 10 months
planimation/backend
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Planimation Backend
Contributions:7 releases, 28 reviews, 7 commits in 9 months
backend
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