
Hugo Cisneros
PhD Student
2 rue Simone IFF
75012 Paris, France
Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3
160 00 Prague 6, Dejvice, Czech Republic

Short Bio
I am a third year PhD student at the Czech Institute for Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC, CTU in Prague), part of the Impact Project, and the Willow team, INRIA/ENS. I am conducting my PhD under the supervision of Tomas Mikolov (CIIRC, CTU in Prague) and Josef Sivic (CIIRC, Inria and ENS Paris). Previously, I got a Master’s degree in Mathematics, Vision, and Machine learning from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Before that, I got a Master’s degree in Engineering with a major in Computer Science at Mines ParisTech.
My research focuses on the development of unsupervised machine learning algorithms capable of innovation and adaptation. I study complex systems like cellular automata and open-ended evolution.
I am generally interested in the emergence and growth of complexity in dynamical systems and how this could lead to open-ended evolving systems. During the first two years of my PhD, I have studied cellular automata and their continuous extensions as they are general and simple yet capable of surprisingly complex emergent behaviors.
News
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Runner-up of the Minecraft Open-Endedness Challenge, the first open-ended evolution challenge organized at the GECCO 2021 conference competition track (See the blog post, the video and the code)
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July 2020 – Talk at Alife 2020, Montréal, Canada (virtual) for Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata (Video of the talk)
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Dec 2019 – Talk at IEEE Alife, SSCI 2019 in Xiamen, China – Best Student paper award for Evolving Structures in Complex Systems
Publications

Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata
Cite Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata
@article{doi:10.1162/isal_a_00277,
author = {Cisneros, Hugo and Sivic, Josef and Mikolov, Tomas},
title = {Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata},
journal = {Artificial Life Conference Proceedings},
volume = {},
number = {32},
pages = {239-247},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.1162/isal_a_00277},
URL = {https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isal_a_00277},
eprint = {https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isal_a_00277} ,
}
Cite Evolving Structures in Complex Systems
@inproceedings{9002840,
author={H. {Cisneros} and J. {Sivic} and T. {Mikolov}},
booktitle={2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)},
title={Evolving Structures in Complex Systems},
year={2019},
volume={},
number={},
pages={230-237},
}