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He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, 2014), Master degree on Advanced Artificial Intelligence (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, 2011) and Bachelor degree on Computer Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, 2002). He is Lecturer at the Computer Science Department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). His teaching activities mainly concentrate on programming, machine learning, reinforcemente learning and complex networks.

Nowadays, he is Associate Researcher at Computer Vision Center (CVC-UAB). His main research scopes include artificial intelligence, machine learning, graph mining and data privacy.

Current positions

  • Lecturer at the Computer Science Department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
  • Associate researcher at Computer Vision Center (CVC-UAB)

Education

  • PhD on Computer Science by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Thesis directed by Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí and Vicenç Torra (available here: PhD-jcasasr) (UAB, 2014). Thesis awarded with cum laude.
  • M.S. Degree on Advanced Artificial Intelligence by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Master’s thesis awarded with honours (available here, in Spanish: TFM Jordi Casas) (UNED, 2011).
  • B.S. Degree in Computer Science by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, 2002).

Past positions

  • Associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications at UOC) (2009-2023).
  • Part-time associate professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) (2015-2023).
  • Coordinator of the Master in Data Science at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (2017-2023).
  • Group leader at ADaS Lab (Applied Data Science Lab) (2020-2023)
  • Associate Researcher at KISON (K-ryptography and Information Security for Open Networks) (2010-2020).
  • Coordinator of the Master in Business Intelligence and Big Data at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (2016-2017).
  • Visiting researcher at the Data Science and Mining (DaSciM) group at Computer Science Laboratory (LIX) of École Polytechnique (Paris, France), from March to June 2014.