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Aguilar Carrillo, Rafael Ignacio
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Computer Engineer from the Lisandro Alvarado Central Western University (UCLA). He currently works as a software engineer in the GlovoMaps team at Glovo. He is a software engineering mentor for organizations and individuals. He has more than ten years of experience in different transnational companies in fields such as logistics, retail, real estate and software consultancies.
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Albors Zumel, Laia
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Graduated in Data Science and Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and holds a master's degree in Computer Vision from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She is currently doing her doctorate in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the UPC, and is writing her doctoral thesis on the efficient use of deep learning techniques for the detection and identification of fauna species and flora. She previously worked at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), in the Emerging Technologies for Artificial Intelligence group in a joint project with CaixaBank.
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Anglada Rotger, David
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PhD candidate in Medical Image Processing from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Master in Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering from the UPC. Graduated in Mathematics and Data Science and Engineering from the Interdisciplinary Training Center (CFIS) by the UPC. Currently, a research assistant in the Digipatics project, for the development of artificial intelligence algorithms for the processing of histopathological images, in collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS).
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Cámbara Ruiz, Guillermo
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Graduated in Physics from the University of Barcelona. He is a doctoral student in automatic speech recognition at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and Telefónica Research, and has a master's degree in Interactive Intelligent Systems from UPF. His research in deep learning for audio processing, speech and natural language has been applied in cognitive systems including Aura, Telefónica's home assistant, and Ingenious, a voice-to-voice translator for European emergency teams. He has also worked with researchers at prestigious institutions, such as the Brno University of Technology (BUT) and Dolby Labs.
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Cardoso Duarte, Amanda
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PhD in Signal Theory and Communications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG - Brazil). Currently an AI4S Fellow and Artificial Intelligence Team Leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), leading projects that integrate AI/ML in Earth science tasks. With a background in multimodal learning, sign language translation, and climate-related AI applications, she has contributed to major European research initiatives such as Destination Earth and Horizon Europe projects.
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Carós Roca, Mariona
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Holder of a master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), specialising in multimedia (DL in vision, speech and text). She worked at Telefónica as a Data Scientist developing DL models to detect anomalies in networks. She is currently taking her doctorate in LiDAR data modeling for environmental applications at the University of Barcelona (UB), in collaboration with the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC). She is also a member of Young IT Girls, a non-profit organisation encouraging girls to pursue technology studies.
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Carrino, Casimiro Pio
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Degree in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II and Master in Physics of Complex Systems from the University of Turin. He has 8 years of experience as a researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP). He is a former member of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where he developed Large Language Models for Catalan and Spanish languages. Now, he is a senior research fellow at Avature working on generative AI and information retrieval for the labour market. Concurrently, he's pursuing a PhD at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), exploring deep learning's applications in automatic multilingual question answering.
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Caselles Rico, Pol
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A graduate in Telecommunications Engineering and the holder of a master’s degree in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies from the UPC He is currently a doctoral student at the UPC, and works with the Institut de Robòtica Industrial (IRI) research centre. He works on 3D reconstruction with deep learning at Crisalix Labs. His bachelor's degree final project, which he wrote at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics (Dublin), focused on saliency prediction, and he wrote his master's degree final project on model weight disentanglement at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Escolano Peinado, Carlos
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Doctor in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the UPC. He is currently a researcher in the language technologies group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), as well as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the UPC. His area of expertise is natural language processing, especially multilingual machine translation with neural networks.
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Fojo Àlvarez, Daniel
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He graduated in Mathematics and Physical Engineering from the Barcelona Interdisciplinary Higher Education Centre (CFIS) and holds a Master’s Degree in Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering. Machine learning engineer at Lace Lithography.
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Gállego Olsina, Gerard Ion
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The holder of a master's degree in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), specialising in Deep Learning for Multimedia Processing. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Automatic Voice Translation in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the UPC. He has carried out research stays at multinational companies (Apple, Amazon and Dolby), where he has worked on Large Language Models (LLM) and speech processing.
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Giardina, Claudia
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Master's degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic Faculty of the National University of Asunción, Paraguay (UNA). The holder of a degree in Medical Electronics Engineering from the Polytechnic Faculty of the UNA. A specialist in Didactics in Higher Education at UNA. She is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), working on a project involving artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging.
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Giró Nieto, Xavier
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An applied scientist at Amazon Science Barcelona, in the field of deep learning applied to computer vision. He was the founder and director of the postgraduate course in Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning for the first nine courses between 2019-2022, which he combined with his research and teaching at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI). He is a member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and one of the instigators of the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN).
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Gómez Duran, Paula
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The holder of a master's degree in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies (MATT) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). She is currently taking a doctorate in Contextual Recommendation Systems at the University of Barcelona (UB). She has three years of experience in full-stack programming (Visual Engineering) and research in various fields of artificial intelligence, at universities including the University of Barcelona and the UPC, and at institutions including the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Telefonica Research and TV3. She has recently published a study on Graph Convolutional Embeddings for Recommender Systems.
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Granero Moya, Marcel
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PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence at UPF Barcelona. Ex-Amazon AI Cambridge. Master in Data Science at EPFL Switzerland. Bachelor's in Telecommunications Engineering at UPC BarcelonaTech.
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Hernández Pérez, Carlos
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Doctoral Ph.D. student at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He has a deep interest in A.I. technology and how it can benefit the future of our humanity. He focuses on its use for medical applications, but also enjoys using it for artistic purposes.
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Jiménez MartÃn, Lauren
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A doctoral student in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), funded by FI AGAUR 2022. The holder of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Havana. She has applied machine learning techniques to restore medical images. She is currently preparing her doctoral thesis on the application of deep learning to solve medical problems in histopathological images, and the study of Attention and Transformers in particular.
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Malik Ara, Ibrar
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Graduated in Data Science and Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and a Master in Computer Vision from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He currently works in the deep learning team at Crisalix as a tech lead, applying his experience in the field of 3D reconstruction and deep learning in production.
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Nieto Salas, Juan José
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Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a master's degree in Data Science from the UPC. He did a research assistant internship using deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and at Telefónica. He currently works as a Data Scientist at Glovo.
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Pina Benages, Oscar
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A doctoral student at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He holds a master's degree in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies, with a mention in Deep Learning for Multimedia Processing. His research focuses on self-supervised graph representation learning and its applications in medical image processing, and specifically in the field of digital histopathology.
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Pons Puig, Jordi
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A graduate in Telecommunications Engineering from the UPC, and holds a doctorate in Music Technology, Large Sound Collections and Deep Learning from the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). He also has a master's degree in Sound and Music Technologies. He is currently a researcher at Dolby Laboratories. He did work placements at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique de Paris (IRCAM), at the German Hearing Center in Hannover, at Pandora Radio and at Telefónica Research.
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Pueyo Morillo, Jorge
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PhD student in Computer Vision at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Master in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies with Deep Learning Specialization by the UPC. Degree in Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering from the Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona (ETSETB). Currently doing research in the field of Computer Vision, especially applied to 3D content. Previously part of the Mobile Wireless Internet group of the i2cat research center.
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Ruiz Hidalgo, Javier
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The holder of a doctorate in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a MSc degree by the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. Associate Professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at UPC, and a member of the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC). He has led research and technology transfer projects in the field of computer vision - area in which he publishes internationally. His research focuses on deep learning and applications in 3D graph processing and generative networks.
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Sanchez Cervera, Ariadna
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Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and The holder of a master's degree in Speech and Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh. Until 2023, she was a researcher on Amazon's text-to-speech team. She is currently completing a PhD in Speech and Voice Technologies for Pathological Voices at the University of Edinburgh.
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Tarrés Benet, Laia
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A graduate in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and the holder of a master's degree in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies from the UPC. She has participated in many deep learning projects with the Image Processing Group at the UPC. She is currently doing her doctorate at the UPC, and is preparing her doctoral thesis on the application of transformations in sign language. She has previously been involved in projects consisting of detecting skin lesions and colouring historical images in black and white using deep learning. He has also done internships at Amazon Research Germany.
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Vilaplana Besler, Verónica
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Holds a doctorate in Image Analysis from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), a MSc degree in Mathematics and a MSc degree in Computer Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Associate professor at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at UPC, teaching Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Computer Vision. Member of the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC). Her research focuses on machine learning, deep learning and applications in medical imaging and remote sensing.
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Ysern GarcÃa, Maria
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Master in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies (MATT) by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), mention in Deep Learning for Multimedia Processing. Currently, a PhD student in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the UPC. Her research focuses on the use of generative models for medical imaging.