blanca.vg at gmail.com

Ph.D. in Computer Science,
National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE). Computer Science Department. October, 2009.
Thesis: Learning Teleo-Reactive Programs for Mobile Robots
Advisor: Dr. Eduardo F. Morales Manzanares
Keywords: Behavioural cloning, Inductive Logic Programming, relational learning, teleo-reactive programs,robotics,grammars

Research Interests

Machine learning, relational learning, knowledge discovery on data bases,robotics. I like to extract knowledge from non-structured data and make it useful.

Papers

B. Vargas-Govea, E. F. Morales. Learning Relational Grammars from Sequences of Actions. Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, 14th Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2009), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, November 15-18, Springer 2009.

B. Vargas, E.F. Morales. Learning Navigation Teleo-Reactive Programs using Behavioural Cloning. IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM 2009), Málaga, Spain. Abstract. 

B. Vargas, E.F. Morales. Solving Navigation Tasks with Learned Teleo-Reactive Programs. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), Nice, France. Poster. Abstract. Extended Abstract

H. Avilés, E. Corona, A. Ramírez, B. Vargas, J. Sánchez, L.E. Sucar, E.F. Morales, A Service Robot Named Markovito, IEEE Latin American Robotic Symposium / IX Congreso Mexicano de Robotica (4th IEEE LARS 07 / IX COMRob 07), Monterrey N. L. Mexico, November 7-9, 2007.

B. Vargas, E. Morales, S. Hernández. Learning Navigation Teleo-operators with Behavioural Cloning. Memoria Técnica del Octavo Encuentro de Investigación. Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Tonantzintla, Puebla, México. Noviembre, 2007.

B. Vargas, E. Morales, S. Hernández. Learning Navigation Teleo-operators with Behavioural Cloning. Memoria Técnica del Séptimo Encuentro de Investigación. Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Tonantzintla, Puebla, México. Noviembre, 2006.

H. Avilés, E. Sucar, C. Mendoza, B. Vargas. Visual Recognition of Gestures using Dynamic Naive Bayesian Classifiers. IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 2003.

H. Avilés, E. Sucar, C. Mendoza, B. Vargas, Visual Recognition of Dynamic Gestures Applied to Command Mobile Robots, IJCAI Workshop on Reasoning under Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR), Agosto 2003.

J. Noguez, E. Sucar, B. Vargas, M. López, Curso de visión computacional con aprendizaje basado en proyectos, 1era Jornada en Educación y Práctica de Visión Computacional, Junio 2003.

B. Vargas, E. Morales, R. Morales. Uso de aprendizaje computacional para extraer modelos del estudiante en el problema del péndulo invertido. En CIC 2002, XI Congreso Internacional de Computación - IPN, pp. 307-318, Noviembre, 2002.

Book Chapter
H.H. Avilés-Arriaga, L.E. Sucar, E.F. Morales, B.A. Vargas, E. Corona. Markovito: A Flexible and General Service Robot. Book Chapter: Computational Intelligence in Autonomous Robotic Systems,Studies in Computational Intelligence Series. D. Liu, L. Wang, K.C. Tan (eds.), Springer 2008.

Presentations

Learning Relational Grammars from Sequences of Actions. November 2009
Thesis defense. October 2009.
Poster 2007
Poster 2006
Séptimo Encuentro de Investigación INAOE Nov. 2006
Proposal

Other stuff

POD example

Data mining
Web design + usability
Drawing and painting
Smallville