Carnegie Mellon Directory

Hector Zenil-Chavez
Visiting research scholar

Contact Information:
On-Campus
Baker Hall 135
BP 161A
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Email:
hzenilc[-at]alumni.cmu.edu
hector.zenil-chavez[at-]malix.univ-paris1.fr

WWW:
http://zenil.mathrix.org

Brief summary:
I read Mathematics in the National University of Mexico (UNAM). Afterwards, I did a Masters in Logic (LoPHISS) at the University of Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne). I am currently a graduate student working toward a PhD in Computer Science and a PhD in Philosophy under the supervision of Jean Mosconi, Jean-Paul Delahaye and Cris Calude from the IHPST (Paris 1/ENS/CNRS), Lille 1 (Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale) and the University of Auckland, respectively. I am currently a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Research:
Experimental algorithmic information theory.

More specifically, I have been working on the definition and direct calculation of the program-size complexity for short sequences and on the convergence of several models of computation to a joint output frequency distribution.

For more details about my research, lecturing and written papers visit: http://zenil.mathrix.org or:

- Experimental Algorithmic Information Theory

- The Shortest Universal Turing Machine Implementation Contest