Professional Experience
Tenure-track Independent Research Group Leader (W2), MPI for Software Systems, November 2014-
Research Scientist, MPI for Intelligent Systems Systems, September 2013-October 2014
Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI for Intelligent Systems, January 2013-August 2013
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 2013
MS, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, April 2009
Ingeniero Superior, Telecommunications Engineering, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, July 2006
Interests and Current Research
Diffusion Networks:
Network inference, temporal dynamics, spread maximization, spread minimization.
Applications to information networks, social networks, viral marketing, epidemiology
and neural recordings.
Convex and Submodular Optimization
Brain-Machine Interfaces
Awards
- NIPS Outstanding Paper Award, 2013
- Barrie de la Maza Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2013
- ICML Student Travel Scholarship, 2011
- KDD Best Research Paper Award Honorable Mention, 2010
- KDD Student Travel Award, 2010
- International BCI Meeting Travel Fellowship, 2010
- Caja Madrid Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2009
- Caixa Galicia Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008 (Declined)
- FPI Fellowship, 2007-2010 (Declined)
- Spanish Government Undergraduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence, 2004-2006.
Scientific community
- Co-organizer of MLSS 2016, Andalucia (Spain), April/May 2016
- Co-organizer of Workshop on "Diffusion Networks and Cascade Analytics" at WSDM 2014, February 2014
- Co-organizer of Workshop "Networks -- Processes and Causality", September 2012
- Program Commmittee of ICML 2015, ICWSM 2015, WWW 2015, SDM 2015, NIPS 2014, CIKM 2014, COSN 2014, KDD 2014, ICWSM 2014, ICML 2014, WWW 2014, WSDM 2014, NIPS 2013, ICML 2013, WSDM 2013, NIPS 2010, RSS 2010
- Reviewer for JMLR, ACM TKDD, ACM TWEB, PLOS One, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSP, IEEE TNSE, Random Structures and Algorithms
- Session Chair of COSN 2014, WSDM 2014
Teaching
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