Pablo Gervas Gómez-Navarro

Professor Pablo Gervás holds a PhD in Computing from Imperial College, University of London (1995), and he is currently full professor (Catedrático de Universidad) of computational creativity and natural language processing at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

He is the director of the NIL research group. He was director of the Instituto de Tecnología del Conocimiento for 8 years. He has been principal investigator for for four national research projects (two of them coordinating several institutions) and leader for the Spanish contribution to three research projects on Future and Emerging Technologies funded by the European Commission.

Dr. Gervás has published research papers in the fields of expert systems, knowledge representation, case-based reasoning, information retrieval, natural language generation, multi agent applications and computational creativity, including papers in journals such as Journal of Knowledge-based Systems, New Generation Computing, Information Processing and Management and Artificial Intelligence Magazine. His main research interest currently lies in the study of the role that narrative plays in communication between people, with a view to enhancing human computer interfaces.

Dr. Gervás is one of the world’s leading experts on automatic generation of (fictional) stories and poetry, and has a background in natural language generation, Computational Creativity, and narratology. He is the author of the PropperWryter software which was used in the process of creating  Beyond the Fence — the first computer generated musical, staged at the London West End in 2016.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2020 – Present

• Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2002 – 2020

• Adjunct Professor (Profesor Asociado a Tiempo Completo), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2000 – 2002

• Lecturer, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain, 1997 – 2000

• Teaching assistant, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK, 1991 – 1994

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• PhD. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK, 1995

• Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 1990