Current position

PhD student under the program “Les tecnologies de la informació i les comunicacions i la seva gestió″ (IT and their management) at La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull

Education

1. DEA in Computer Engineering: 2007 — 2008.
   La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull
   Dissertation title: Anàlisi de la relació entre la complexitat del problema i la precisió dels classificadors en mineria de dades.
   DEA advisor : Ester Bernadó Mansilla

 

2. MS in Computer Engineering: 2004 — 2006.
   La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull
   Thesis title: Mesures de complexitat per a la transformació del problema de detecció de càncer basat en mamografies. (A with Honors)
   Thesis supervisor: Ester Bernadó Mansilla

 

3. MSc in Computer Engineering: 1999 — 2004.
   La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull
   Thesis title: Disseny i implementació d’un GA-P.
   Thesis supervisor: Joan Camps Dausà

 

Research experience

1. Member of the Grup de Recerca en Sistemes Intel·ligents (GRSI): 2007 — present.
   GRSI is a research group which has been recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya, from 2002 under the references 2002SGR-00155, 2005SGR-00302, and 2008SGR-00183. The group focuses its research on practical applications of evolutionary computation and soft case-based reasoning.

Participation in research projects

1. KEEL III: Genetic-based machine learning, data complexity, unbalanced domains, data streams, and scalability: 2009 – present.
   KEEL III is a continuation of KEEL II, which aims at conducting research on some of the hot topics in data mining such as evaluate the complexity of classification domains, learn from unbalanced domains and data streams, and improve the scalability of existing algorithms—and build new scalable methods—in order to solve large problems. The project is sponsored by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia under the national project with reference TIN2008-06681-C06-05.
2. KEEL II: Rule-based Evolutive Models: 2005 — 2008.
   KEEL II continues with the development of a machine learning tool initiated in the KEEL project. In KEEL II, we are introducing the following novelties to the prototype: (1) new machine learning techniques and (2) algorithm evaluation methodologies.The project is sponsored by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia under the national project with reference TIN2005-08386-C05-04.

The KEEL project develops a software tool that integrates a large variety of genetic-based machine learning techniques for pattern classification, regression, and clustering; it includes the top-notch evolutionary learning methodologies. KEEL provides an intuitive visual tool that permits to run experiments, compare algorithms, and extract classification models for user’s classification, regression, and unsupervised problems. The following five universities participate in the project: Universidad de Granada (UGR), Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), Universitat Ramon Llull (URL), Universidad de Jaén (UJ), and Universidad de Oviedo (UO).The project was sponsored by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología under the national project with reference TIC2002-04036-C05-03.

Awards and grants

1. Ajudes a tercer cicle. Scholarship to PhD students granted by the Govern d’Andorra and Fundació Crèdit Andorrà. October 2008 — present.
2. Beca BE (2009). Scholarship to visit foreign research groups granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The scholarship funded my research visit to the Statistics and Learning Research Group at the Bell Laboratories – Alcatel-Lucent done from April 6, 2009 to October 6, 2009. Ref: 2009BE-00.
3. Ajudes a tercer cicle. Scholarship to PhD students granted by the Govern d’Andorra. October 2007 — September 2008.
4. 1rst Prize of Research Contest “Hermano Salvador González” of Universidad La Salle México. Métricas de complejidad para la transformación del problema de detección de cáncer basado en mamografías.
5. Beca de recerca d’Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle. Scholarship for researchers formation. January 2007 — September 2007.
6. Beca d’estudis universitaris. Schorlarship for university studies granted by the Govern d’Andorra. 1999 — 2001.

Professional activities

1. Reviewer. Pattern Recognition Letters.
2. Reviewer. 4th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, 2009.

Invited talks

1. On the necessity of data set characterization for experimental analysis. Towards artificial data sets, in I Workshop on Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning, May 2008 (Universidad de Granada).

Teaching experience

1. Teaching Mathematical Logic. 2007 — present. Subject of the 4th course of Computer Engineering, Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull.