TU München - Fakultät für Informatik
Chair IV: Software & Systems Engineering

Ignacio Fernandez de la Puente
Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching Deutschland Tel. +49(89) 289-17358 Fax.+49(89)289-17307 puente in.tum.de Büro: MI 00.11.056

News:

05.10.2010: I am searching for students that want to do a Plicht-Praktikum at BMW.
14.11.2010: Cedosia Graduate Council first meeting coming soon.
01.12.2010: I am searching for a student that want to work fulltime in the SS2011 at BMW.
13.02.2011: Cedosia Weiswurstfrühstuck on 16.03.2011.
10.03.2011: Cedosia meets Google on 24 and 29.03.2011.
07.04.2011: From May on I will be have the honor to research with Kristian Kersiting and his team STREAM at the Fraunhofer Institut in Bonn on MDPs and SRL.
19.05.2011: Cedosia meets McKinsey.
05.06.2011: Cedosia meets Microsoft. Beginning of July.
16.08.2010: I am searching for a student that want to work fulltime in the WS2011 at BMW.
14.09.2010: Workshop "How to get into Google" soon.

Research Interests:

Verification

testing of reactive distributed real-time (black-box) systems
Model checking
Runtime Verification
Human-Computer Interaction

Machine Learning

Deterministic replanning and probabilistic planning
SRL and reinforcement learning
(PO)MDPs
Goal recognition and plann recognition
User Models

Business

e-Business
Start-ups
e-Marketing
SEO

Students:

Ongoing

Student	Type	Where	Field	Topic
Alejandra Rodriguez	Praktikum	BMW	Verification	Monitor decomposition and soft testing case study.
Alexey Bazhenov	Praktikum	BMW	Verification	Trace Analysis and Oracle Based Testing.
Andreas Huber	Diplomarbeit	BMW	AI	Learning user behavior and adapting user functions.
Christian Chalupny	Diplomarbeit	BMW	User Interface	Building intelligent HMI for adaptative user functions.
Kiril Dimitrov	Diplomarbeit	BMW	User Interface	Dynamic user interface for RUKL.

Finished

Student	Type	Where	Field	Topic
Kiril Dimitrov	Praktikum	TUM	Computer Vision	Menu classification, Pattern and Image recognition of low headunit displays.
Xiaoguang Ma	Praktikum	TUM	Computer Vision	Menu classification, Pattern and Image recognition of low headunit displays.
Akin Ucar	Praktikum	TUM	Specification	Eclipse Plugin for fast HMI Prototyping
Kiril Dimitrov	Werkstudent	BMW	Specification	Development of a Dialog and a Wigdet Model for RUKL. FSM Simulation in eclipse plugin.
Xiaoguang Ma	Werkstudent	BMW	Software Engineering	Coding/Decoding Xdebug to MOST_HMI.
Chaoling Xue	Diplomarbeit	BMW	AI	Trace Analysis through Neural Networks. Integration of ECU models.
Alexey Bazhenov	Praktikum	BMW	AI	Planner implementation and environment simulation.

Introduction:

After finishing my Electrical Engineering degree in 2005 I moved to Germany. I had the fortune to start at BMW in 2006, where I have been working happily on different infotainment fields (specially on verification). In November 2009, willing to bring to life several ideas, I started my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Broy. On the way, I also strived to acquire a master in economy and a master in international business. In may of 2011 I started working as visiting researcher with Kristian Kersting and his team STREAM at the Fraunhofer Institut in Bonn. I'm very happy to be supervised by 2 of the brightest guys I have ever meet. Prof. Broy supervises the verification part and Kristian Kersting the AI part.

I am the representative of the PhD students from the faculty of informatics (Cedosia) at the Graduate School till July 2011, so please do not hesitate to contact me if you have a question, suggestion or problem with your PhD, Professor,etc. On the other hand, if you are interested in getting involved (non-binding) with Cedosia and the TUM Graduate School you are very welcome! Send me an email...There is a lot to do!

By the way, when I am not doing science you might find me trying to found a start-up, playing squash, skiing, sailing (not fancy yatchs but small fast boats...470 and Laser), at the movies, meeting new international people, envolve with the catholic community of the LMU University cathedral St. Ludwig or travelling and backpacking (my favourite of all).

You might find me during the week (and sometimes during the weekends - Stand back I'm going to do science ) in either one of these places:

BMW (FIZ, Research and Innovation center), Max-Diamand-Str., Munich
TUM, Faculty of Informatics, Munich
Fraunhofer Institut, IAIS, Bonn

My agenda seems to be very flexible (2 days here, 1 day there, etc.), so if you want to meet me just swing by and try to catch me. If you dont like risks, just send me an email and we will arrange an appoinment ;-)

By the way, I love the concept of open doors from Richard Hamming! So whatever it is, if you have an idea, opinion, thought, critic, proposition, etc. do not hesitate to contact me!