Guillermo Simari

Guillermo Ricardo Simari is an Argentine computer scientist. He is an international leader in Defeasible Reasoning and Argument (Logic) (see also Argumentation Theory), a national leader in Logic Programming in Argentina, and one of the leaders of Artificial Intelligence in South America. He has headed the Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Lab (LIDIA) at Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina) since 1990, where he has personally mentored many internationally known students, such as Juan Carlos Augusto, Alejandro J. García, Marcelo A. Falappa, Carlos I. Chesñevar, Ana G. Maguitman, Pablo R. Fillottrani, Diego C. Martínez, Marcelo L. Errecalde, María Laura Cobo, and Sergio Alejandro Gómez, who have present impact in both the Spanish speaking and English speaking AI communities.
He is co-editor of the Journal of Argument & Computation
He completed his doctoral degree in 1989 at Washington University in St. Louis under the supervision of Ronald Loui.