Academic Work.

• M.Sc. in Computer Science. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
• Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence. École Polythecnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Teaching

At ESADE I am (will be) teaching the following courses:

2019 Spring

• Master of Sciences in Business Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence II
• Master of Sciences in Business Analytics
  • Recommender Systems
• Executive Master en Finanzas
  • Fintech
• Master in Business Administration (MBA)
  • Machine Learning

2018 Fall

• Master in Business Administration (MBA)
  • Business Analytics and
    Decision Making
• Bachelor of Business Administration
  • Artificial Intelligence and
    Machine Learning
• Custom Program for Bertelsmann
  • Artificial Intelligence

2018 Spring

• Executive Master in Business Analytics
  • Data Science for Business
• Master of Sciences in Business Analytics
  • Recommender Systems
• Big Data Analytics for Executives
  • Machine Learning
• Máster en FinanzasInstitut d’Estudis Financers (IEF)
  • Machine Learning and Big Data
• Postgrado en FintechInstitut d’Estudis Financers (IEF)
  • Fintech and Banking 2.0
• In-Company lecturesThe Valley Digital Business School
  • Big Data for Banco Santander
  • Fintech for Accenture

2017

• Master in Business AnalyticsInstituto de Empresa (IE)
  • Recommender Systems
• Master in International FinancesGeneva Business School (GBS)
  • Fintech

2015-2016

• Master in Business AnalyticsInstituto de Empresa (IE)
  • Recommender Systems

Talks

• Master class on AI for Executive Education at ESADE. November 26, 2018, Barcelona.
• Invited talk at the refresher programme at ESADE: “The Big Promise of Artificial Intelligence“. December 18, 2018, Barcelona.
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• Invited talk at Jornada Esade Creapolis: “Oportunidades que aporta la digitalización en la toma de decisiones“. November 14, 2018. Barcelona.  
• Panel discussion at Jornada sobre el impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en el sector financiero. June 26, 2018, Barcelona.
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• Invited talk at ESADE Speaker Series in Data and Fintech: “Banking Disruption”. May 24, 2018, Barcelona.
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• Keynote at 3r Congrés d’Economia i Empresa de Catalunya: “La gran promesa de la Intel·ligència Artificial”. April 20, 2018, Barcelona.
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• Speaker at DotFinance 2017 on “How Artificial Intelligence is shaping Banking”. February 17, 2018, Kigali, Rwanda.
• Speaker at TCF Innovation Jam. May 17, 2016, Barcelona.
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• Speaker at the The API Hour, Fintech & API Hackers orgnized by BBVA: “Analysing banking data to offer relevant offers to customers”. March 5, 2015, Madrid, Spain.
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• Speaker at the Industry day of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): “Top Lessons learned Developing, Deploying and Operating Real-World Recommender Systems”, July 22, 2011, Barcelona.
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• Keynote at Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms and Technologies, September 30, 2010, Barcelona, Catalonia.
• Industry Panel at UMAP 2009, June 22-26, 2009, Trento, Italy.
• Seminari: “Sistemas y experiencias prácticas de transferencia de conocimiento desde la investigación científica”, organized by ICMAB (Institut de Ciències Materials de Barcelona) del CSIC. May 2009, Bellaterra, Catalonia.
• Seminari: “Els errors dels emprenedors” organized by Parc de Recerca de la UAB. April 2009, Bellaterra, Catalonia.
• Panel: “Search, Recommendations and Personalization: text and beyond” at Telefonica Open Research Day. November 27, 2008, Barcelona, Catalonia.
• Invited talk about “OpenTaste” at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. February 2008, Valencia.

Conferences

Conference Chair

• Industry Track Co-Chair User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2010, Industry Track, July 11-15, 2001, in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
• General co-Chair 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2010, September 26-30, 2010 in Barcelona.
• Workshop on Recommender-based Industrial Applications held in conjunction with RecSys 2009 on Sunday, October 25, 2009 in New York City, USA.

Program Committee

• Senior PC of International Join Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19) on August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China.
• PC of 33rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19) on January 27, 2019, Honolulu, Hawai, USA.
• Senior PC of 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on September, 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
• Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems within 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on September 9-13, 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
• Doctoral Symposium within 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on September 9-13, 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
• PC of Behavioural Analysis and Personalization track of the World Wide Web 2012 (www2012) conference on April 16-20, 2012, Lyon, France.
• Senior PC of 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on October, 2011, Chicago, US.
• Senior PC of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011) on July 16-22, 2011, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems within 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on October, 2011, Chicago, US.
• Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Exploitation from semi-Structured Online Sources (KEESOS 2011) within The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) to be held with on November 7-11, 2001, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
• Workshop NLP in the Enterprise: Envisioning the Next 10 Years to be held in conjunction with SEPLN 2010 on September 6-7, 2010, Valencia, Spain.
• Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms and Technologies, September 30, 2010, Barcelona, Catalonia.
• 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2010, September 26-30, 2010, Barcelona, Catalonia.
• 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2010, June 7-11, 2009, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.
• Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Semantic Web (APRESW 2010), within the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), May 30 – June 3, 2010, Heraklion, Greece.
• 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2009, July 6-10, 2009, Stanford, California, USA.
• 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media (MSM09-CAEPIA09), November 10-12, 2009, Sevilla, Spain.

Editorial Advisory Board

I am part of the Editorial Advisory Board of the book Collaborative and Distributed E-Research: Innovations in Technologies, Strategies and Applications.

PhD Thesis Committees

I have been on the PhD thesis committee of:

• Justin Donaldson, Indiana University, USA.
• Claudio Baccigalupo, IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Catalonia.
• Oscar Celma from The Audiovisual Institute, UPF, Barcelona, Catalonia.
• Victor Codina from The Department of Software, UPC, Barcelona, Catalonia.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science. École Polythecnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
• M.Sc. in Computer Science. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Catalonia.

Certifications

I earned the following academic certifications:

• Tenure-track Lecturer certification issued by the Agència per la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya (AQU).