Saúl A. Blanco Rodríguez

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Research

Teaching

CSCI-B551: Elements of AI
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Publications

• S. A. Blanco and C. Buehrle, Some integer values in the spectra of burnt pancake graphs. To appear in Linear Algebra and its Applications. Preprint available through arXiv.
• S. A. Blanco and D. E. Skora, Enumerating polynomial generalized permutation classes. Proceedings of ISSAC 2024. [link]
• C. Schultz Kisby, S. A Blanco, and L. Moss, What Do Hebbian Learners Learn? Reduction Axioms for Unstable Hebbian Learning, Proceedings of AAAI 2024. [link]
• T. Haider, S. A. Blanco, and U. Hayat, A Novel Pseudo-Random Number Generator Based on Multivariable Optimization for Image-Cryptographic Applications, Expert Systems with Applications, 240, 2024.[link]
• S.A. Blanco and C. Buehrle, Bounds on the genus for 2-cell embeddings of prefix-reversal graphs. Submitted. Preprint available through arXiv.
• S. A. Blanco, and D. E. Skora, An Algorithm to Enumerate Grid Signed Permutation Classes, Proceedings of The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC 2023. [link]. Preprint available through arXiv.
• A. Hannum, M. A . Lopez, S. A. Blanco, and R. F. Betzel, High-accuracy machine learning techniques for functional connectome fingerprinting and cognitive state decoding, Human Brain Mapping 44(16) 5199-5514, 2023. [link]
• S. A. Blanco and C. Buehrle, Length of cycles in generalized pancake graphs, Discrete Mathematics, 346 (12), 2023. [link]. Preprint available through arXiv.
• S. A. Blanco and C. Buehrle, Presentations of Coxeter groups of type A, B, and D using prefix-reversal generators, Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing (2022). [link]
• C Kisby, S. A. Blanco, and L. Moss, The Logic of Hebbian Learning, In the 35 International Conference of the Florida AI Research Society, FLAIRS 2022. [link]
• Z. Chen, C. Wang, P. Laturia, D. Crandall, and S. Blanco, How to play Notakto: Can reinforcement learning achieve optimal play on combinatorial games?, AAAI 2021 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Games.[link]
• S. A. Blanco and C. Buehrle, Some relations on prefix reversal generators of the symmetric and hyperoctahedral group, Australasian J. of Combin., 76(3), 2020.[link]
• C. Kisby, S. A. Blanco, A. Kruckman, and L. Moss, Logics for Sizes with Union or Intersection, Proceedings of AAAI 2020.[link]
• C. Tao, S. A. Blanco, J. Peng, and Y. Zhou, Thresholding Bandit with Optimal Aggregate Regret, Proceedings of NeurIPS 2019.[link]
• S. A. Blanco, C. Buehrle, and A. Patidar, On the number of pancake stacks requiring four flips to be sorted, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 21(2), 2019. [link]
• S. A. Blanco, C. Buehrle, and A. Patidar, Cycles in the burnt pancake graph, Discrete Appl. Math 271, 1-14, 2019. [link]
• S. A. Blanco, Weak Z-property of the absolute order on groups generated by sets closed under taking inverses, Order, 36(2), 391-397, 2019. [link]
• S. A. Blanco, Flip posets of Bruhat intervals, Electron. J. Combin., 25(4):#P4.16, 2018. [link]
• C. Tao, S. A. Blanco, and Y. Zhou, Best Arm Identification in Linear Bandits with Linear Dimension Dependency, Proceedings of the 2018 ICML. [link]
• J. Wang, M. Korayem, S. A. Blanco, and D. Crandall, Tracking Natural Events through Social Media and Computer Vision, Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Multimedia Conference, 1097-1101, 2016. [link]
• S. A. Blanco and T. K. Petersen, Counting Dyck paths by area and rank, Annals of Combinatorics, 18(2):171-197, 2014. [link]
• L. J. Billera and S. A. Blanco, Bandwidth of the product of paths of the same length, Discrete Appl. Math., 161(18):3080-3086, 2013. [link]
• S. A. Blanco, Shortest path poset of Bruhat Intervals, J. Algebraic Combin., 38(3):585-596, 2013. [link]. A preliminary version appears in the Proceedings of the 23 FPSAC, DMTCS proc. AO, 2011, 191-198. [link]
• S. A. Blanco, The complete cd-index of dihedral and universal Coxeter groups, Electron. J. Combin., 18(1):#P174, 2011 [pdf]
• S. A. Blanco and A. S. Fraenkel, Tromping games: tiling with trominoes, INTEGERS, Electr. J. Combinat. Number Theory 11(A): Article #6, 2011. [pdf]. A preliminary version was called Triomineering, Tridomineering, and L-Tridomineering. [link]
• S. A. Blanco, Shortest path poset of finite Coxeter groups, Proceedings of the 21 FPSAC, DMTCS proc. AK, 2009, 189-200. [pdf]

Others (mostly education related)

• A. Leite and S. A. Blanco, Effects of Human vs. Automatic Feedback on Students' Understanding of AI Concepts and Programming Style. In SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.[link]
• S. A. Blanco, Active Learning in a Discrete Mathematics Class. In SIGCSE '18: Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education , 828-833.[link]
• S. A. Blanco, Teaching in a collaborative Classroom. AMS Blog on Teaching and Learning Mathematics, June 2017. [link]

• An Epidemic Model of HSV-1 with Vaccination, Technical Report MTBI-02-04M, Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (with A. Acosta, E. Bar-Zohar, D. Luli, and L. Gao) [pdf]. This is a technical report prepared at the end of a summer program. It won't appear anywhere else, but I think it is interesting.