Carlos Gershenson
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Carlos Gershenson | |
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Born | Mexico City, Mexico |
29 September 1978
Nationality | Mexican |
Fields | Complex systems, Computer science, Archeology, Linguistics, Semiology |
Institutions | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, ITMO University Free University of Brussels |
Doctoral advisor | Francis Heylighen, Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe |
Other academic advisors | José Negrete Martínez, Inman Harvey, Yaneer Bar-Yam |
Doctoral students | Luis Enrique Cortés Berrueco, Gustavo Carreón, Jorge Zapotécatl |
Known for | Research on Self-Organization, Complexity Digest |
Influences | William Ross Ashby, Francisco Varela, Stuart Kauffman |
Notable awards | Team Mexico City Audi Urban Future Award 2014, Google Research Award in Latin America 2015 |
Website http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/~cgg/ |
Carlos Gershenson (born 1978-9-29) is a Mexican computer scientist researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His academic interests include self-organizing systems, complexity, and artificial life.
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Biography
Carlos Gershenson was born September 29, 1978 in Mexico City studied a BEng in Computer Engineering at the Arturo Rosenblueth Foundation in Mexico City in 2001 and a MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex. He received his PhD in Sciences at the Centrum Leo Apostel of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium in 2007, on "Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems", under the supervision of Francis Heylighen. He did a postdoc with Yaneer Bar-Yam at the New England Complex Systems Institute.
After joining as a researcher at the Computer Science Department of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, he also became an associated researcher of the Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad at the same university. He was the head of the Computer Science Department (2012-2015). He is a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Visiting Research Professor at Northeastern University. He is chair of a previously self-proclaimed 'dream team' committee organizing the ALIFE 2016 conference [1] where none but a single Mexican speaker was invited thereby segregating all other Mexican researchers in his area leaving them out from any participation. The conference appears to serve as a platform for self-promotion for himself and a group of marketing people around him who may also be benefiting from government resources in the organization of such a conference. In his talks and personal webpage he has purported himself as Professor [2] but his university title is listed as a Researcher [3]
He has also been editor-in-chief of Complexity Digest since 2009 [4]
Work
The academic contributions of Carlos Gershenson have been related to the understanding and control of complex systems, about life and other topics.
Self-organizing Systems
During his PhD, Gershenson proposed a general methodology to design and control self-organizing systems.[5] He noticed that self-organization cannot be judged independently of a context, i.e., it is not so relevant to decide whether a system is or not self-organizing, but when is it useful to do so.[6] The usefulness of self-organization lies in the fact that it can provide robust adaptation to changes in a system. His approach is similar to other models of traffic that are never cited by Gershenson. As particular cases, he studied the problems of traffic light coordination,[7] organization efficiency,[8] and communication protocols.[9]
In recent years, he has extended his work on the study of self-organizing traffic lights[10] and also applied self-organization to public transport regulation[11][12] and other urban systems.[13]
Random Boolean Networks
During his MSc studies, Gershenson proposed a classification of random Boolean networks depending on their updating scheme.[14]
He has also studied the effect of redundancy[15] and modularity[16] on random Boolean networks.
References
- ↑ http://xva.life/organizers/
- ↑ http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/~cgg/about.html
- ↑ http://www.fciencias.unam.mx/directorio/63899
- ↑ http://comdig.unam.mx
- ↑ Gershenson, C. (2007). Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems. CopIt Arxives, Mexico. http://scifunam.fisica.unam.mx/mir/copit/TS0002EN/TS0002EN.html
- ↑ Gershenson, C. and Heylighen, F. (2003). When can we call a system self- organizing? In Banzhaf, W., Christaller, T., Dittrich, P., Kim, J. T., and Ziegler, J., editors, Advances in Artificial Life, 7th European Conference, ECAL 2003 LNAI 2801, pages 606–614, Berlin. Springer. http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0303020
- ↑ Gershenson, C. (2005). Self-organizing traffic lights. Complex Systems, 16(1):29–53. http://www.complex-systems.com/pdf/16-1-2.pdf
- ↑ Gershenson, C. (2008). Towards self-organizing bureaucracies. International Journal of Public Information Systems, 2008(1):1–24. http://www.ijpis.net/ojs/index.php/IJPIS/article/view/51
- ↑ Gershenson, C. and Heylighen, F. (2011). Protocol requirements for self- organizing artifacts: Towards an ambient intelligence. In Minai, A., Braha, D., and Bar-Yam, Y., editors, Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, volume V, pages 136–143. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg. http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0404004
- ↑ Gershenson, C. and Rosenblueth, D. A. (2012). Self-organizing traffic lights at multiple-street intersections. Complexity, 17(4):23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplx.20392
- ↑ Gershenson, C. and Pineda, L. A. (2009). Why does public transport not arrive on time? The pervasiveness of equal headway instability. PLoS ONE, 4(10):e7292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007292
- ↑ Gershenson, C. (2011). Self-organization leads to supraoptimal performance in public transportation systems. PLoS ONE, 6(6):e21469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021469
- ↑ Gershenson, C. (2013). Living in living cities. Artificial Life, 19(3 & 4):401–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00112
- ↑ Classification of random Boolean networks. In Standish, R. K., Bedau, M. A., and Abbass, H. A., editors, Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Artificial Life, pages 1–8, Cambridge, MA, USA. MIT Press. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0208001
- ↑ Gershenson, C., Kauffman, S. A., and Shmulevich, I. (2006). The role of redundancy in the robustness of random Boolean networks. In Rocha, L. M., Yaeger, L. S., Bedau, M. A., Floreano, D., Goldstone, R. L., and Vespignani, A., editors, Artificial Life X, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems., pages 35–42. MIT Press. http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0511018
- ↑ Poblanno-Balp, R. and Gershenson, C. (2011). Modular random Boolean networks. Artificial Life, 17(4):331–351. http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1893
External links
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- Personal webpage http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/~cgg/
- Google Scholar Profile