Meritxell Vinyals

Hi people!

My name is Meritxell Vinyals and I am a PhD student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) in Barcelona, Spain. My work is currently focused on designing reconfiguration and self-organization mechanisms for multi-agent systems that allow agents to coordinate their activities in a decentralized and autonomic way. Concretely I am working to apply such mechanisms to coordinate sensor networks, networks composed of a large number of sensors distributed over an area with different computation, communication and sensing capacities. I hope that the Complex Systems Theory allows me to understand and regulate the global system behavior that emerge from local agent interaccions in multi-agent systems. I am really excited about this course and to meet all of you in Santa Fe! I think that meeting such interesting people coming all from studying very different problems will be an incredible experience!

In my free time I like traveling, reading, going outdoors (to the montain or to the beach, it doesn't matter) or simply having a drink with some friends!