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    - work0:
      company: Universitat de Barcelona (UB) - BBVA AI Factory
      location: Barcelona
      title: Industrial PhD Dissertation Defense
      started: 2022
      duration: Mon 18th of July, 2022
      description: <p>Today, I am glad to announce I will be defending my Industrial PhD Dissertation.</p><p><img style='height: 10%; width: 10%; object-fit: contain' src="https://github.com/axelbrando/axelbrando.github.com/raw/master/images/PhDDefenseCover.png" alt="Cover PhD Dissertation"/></p><p>A first copy of the dissertation can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1pVOkLg18d7pj9rKbtGESYbtADyT2U0VV">BrandoAxel_AleatoricUncertainty.pdf</a></p><p>Soon, we will:</p><p>(1) Add the formal information to reference its content.</p><p>(2) Update this blog for a web version of the PhD dissertation.</p><p>(3) Publish new related results.</p><p></p><p>Stay tuned via social networks!</p><p></p><p>Thank you all.</p><p>Best Regards</p>

    - work1:
      company: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Research Engineer (RE2)
      started: 2020
      duration: (2020-present)
      description: <p>Research and risk analysis for safety-critical real-time systems based on Machine Learning techniques.</p>

    - work2:
      company: BBVA Data & Analytics S.L. - Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Data Scientist Industrial PhD student
      started: 2017
      duration: (2017-present)
      description: <p> Research about Uncertainty Modelling by using Deep Learning motivated by the bank problems. </p><p>...</p><p>2020-06-04 -- Journal article about <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9131769">Building uncertainty models on top of black-box predictive APIs</a>.</p><p>2019-12-11 -- NeurIPS'19 presentation of the article 'Modelling heterogeneous distributions with an Uncountable Mixture of Asymmetric Laplacians' (UMAL). <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12288">Article</a>, <a href="https://github.com/BBVA/UMAL">Code repo</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/369179175/a17d3de911">Video</a>. Introduced <a href="https://www.bbva.com/es/como-ensenar-a-la-inteligencia-artificial-a-decir-no-estoy-seguro/">here</a> and <a href="https://retina.elpais.com/retina/2019/12/20/innovacion/1576838697_328758.html?ssm=TW_CC">here</a>.</p></p><p>2019-10-01 -- Fall'19 BCN.ai.  <a href="https://w.tame.events/e/89635027"> Presentation about Aleatoric Uncertainty Modelling by using UMAL</a>.</p><p></p><p>2018-09-10 -- Regarding the aggregated time-series financial forecasting system the article entitled <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09011">'Uncertainty Modelling in Deep Networks Forecasting; Short and Noisy Series'</a> was presented at the Applied Data Science Track of ECML-PKDD 2018 and <a href="https://www.bbvadata.com/es/improving-predictions-in-deep-learning-by-modelling-uncertainty-2/">here</a>. The proposed model was afterwards used in the <a href="https://www.bbvadata.com/white_papers/advanced_ai.pdf">White Paper (collaboration between Google Cloud - BBVA Data Analytics)</a> and introduced <a href="https://www.bbvadata.com/es/bayesian-deep-learning-meets-google-cloud-for-a-better-forecasting-engine-at-bbva/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.bbva.com/es/bbva-y-google-cloud-desarrollan-un-modelo-de-ia-para-mejorar-la-prediccion-de-gastos-e-ingresos/">here</a>.</p><p></p><p>2018-05-13 -- First BCN.ai session, presenting <a href="https://w.tame.events/e/3177403">how to model all kinds of uncertainties by using a Deep Learning model</a>.</p><p></p><p>2018-03-14 -- BGSMath Presentation about <a href="http://doctoratsindustrials.gencat.cat/ca/events/view/108">Large-scale machine learning for financial recommender systems</a>.</p><p></p>

    - work3:
      company: IIIA - CSIC (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute)
      location: Bellaterra
      title: Big Data / Machine Learning research developer
      started: 2017
      duration: (2017)
      description: <p> Research developer in a industrial research project.</p>

    - work4:
      company: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Scholarship collaboration AAD with the department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis
      started: 2016
      duration: (2016)
      description: <p> Collaborating in support tasks with the university teachers.</p>

    - work5:
      company: DataScienceUB group, Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Course assistant in the <a href="http://www.ub.edu/datascience/deep/">Deep Learning from Scratch:</a> A short Course
      started: 2016
      duration: (2016)
      description: <p> Content review. </p><p>Teacher assistant during sessions.</p><p>Preparation and explanation of the theoretical and practical content of style transfer of images by using neural networks.</p>

    - work6:
      company: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Scholarship collaboration with the department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis
      started: 2015
      duration: (2015-2016)
      description: <p> Design and experimentation in new databases. </p><p>Building of new models of deep learning by using Caffe and TensorFlow.</p><p>Introducing to new techniques such as Style Transfer Image, Hallucinations, Dreaming by using deep learning algorithms.</p>

    - work7:
      company: Barcelona Super-Computing Center (BSC)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Research and experimental development on deep learning techniques
      started: 2015
      duration: (2015-2016)
      description: <p>Techniques to reconstruct the input by using the activations of the neural network. </p>

    - work8:
      company: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Building and training artificial deep learning techniques by using Caffe
      started: 2015
      duration: (2015)
      description: <p>Building a new model of deep learning improving the results obtained in my final degree dissertation.</p>

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    - education1:
      organization: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV).
      degree: Master's Degree
      major: Artificial Intelligence
      started: 2017
      duration: (2015 - 2017)
      description: Master in Artificial Intelligence
    - education2:
      organization: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      degree: Bachelor's Degree
      major: Computer Engineering
      started: 2015
      duration: (2009 - 2015)
      description: Dual EHEA Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Engineering
    - education3:
      organization: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      degree: Bachelor's Degree
      major: Mathematics
      started: 2015
      duration: (2009 - 2015)
      description: Dual EHEA Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Engineering
<commit_msg>Update _config.yml<commit_after>#
# This file contains configuration flags to customize your site
#

# Name of your site (displayed in the header)
name: <NAME>

# Short bio or description (displayed in the header)
shortbio: Computer Scientist and Mathematician
description: Computer Scientist and Mathematician. This is a collection of outstanding projects I have been working in recent years.

# Email Adress
##email:

# URL of your avatar or profile pic (you could use your GitHub profile pic)
avatar: https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/14802914?v=3&s=460 #images/avatar.jpg

#
# Flags below are optional
#

# Includes an icon in the footer for each username you enter
footer-links:
  dribbble:
  emailpre: axelbrando
  emailpos: ub.edu
  facebook:
  flickr:
  github: axelbrando
  instagram:
  linkedin: AxelBrando
  pinterest:
  rss: # just type anything here for a working RSS icon
  twitter: AxelBrando_
  stackoverflow: # your stackoverflow profile, e.g. "users/50476/bart-kiers"
  youtube: # channel/<your_long_string> or user/<user-name>
  googleplus: # anything in your profile username that comes after plus.google.com/


# Enter your Disqus shortname (not your username) to enable commenting on posts
# You can find your shortname on the Settings page of your Disqus account
disqus: axeldisqus

# Enter your Google Analytics web tracking code (e.g. UA-2110908-2) to activate tracking
google_analytics: UA-101022346-1

# Your website URL (e.g. http://barryclark.github.io or http://www.barryclark.co)
# Used for Sitemap.xml and your RSS feed
url: http://axelbrando.github.io

# If you're hosting your site at a Project repository on GitHub pages
# (http://yourusername.github.io/repository-name)
# and NOT your User repository (http://yourusername.github.io)
# then add in the baseurl here, like this: "/repository-name"
baseurl: ""

#
# !! You don't need to change any of the configuration flags below !!
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permalink: /:title/

# The release of Jekyll Now that you're using
version: v1.2.0

# Jekyll 3 now only supports Kramdown for Markdown
kramdown:
  # Use GitHub flavored markdown, including triple backtick fenced code blocks
  input: GFM
  # Jekyll 3 and GitHub Pages now only support rouge for syntax highlighting
  syntax_highlighter: rouge
  syntax_highlighter_opts:
    # Use existing pygments syntax highlighting css
    css_class: 'highlight'

# Set the Sass partials directory, as we're using @imports
sass:
  style: :expanded # You might prefer to minify using :compressed

# Use the following plug-ins
gems:
  - jekyll-sitemap # Create a sitemap using the official Jekyll sitemap gem
  - jekyll-feed # Create an Atom feed using the official Jekyll feed gem

# Exclude these files from your production _site
exclude:
  - Gemfile
  - Gemfile.lock
  - LICENSE
  - README.md
  - CNAME

author:
  workHistory:

    - work0:
      company: Universitat de Barcelona (UB) - BBVA AI Factory
      location: Barcelona
      title: Industrial PhD Dissertation Defense
      started: 2022
      duration: Mon 18th of July, 2022
      description: <p>Today, I am glad to announce I will be defending my Industrial PhD Dissertation.</p><img src="https://github.com/axelbrando/axelbrando.github.com/raw/master/images/PhDDefenseCover.png"/><p>A first copy of the dissertation can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1pVOkLg18d7pj9rKbtGESYbtADyT2U0VV">BrandoAxel_AleatoricUncertainty.pdf</a></p><p>Soon, we will:</p><p>(1) Add the formal information to reference its content.</p><p>(2) Update this blog for a web version of the PhD dissertation.</p><p>(3) Publish new related results.</p><p></p><p>Stay tuned via social networks!</p><p></p><p>Thank you all.</p><p>Best Regards</p>

    - work1:
      company: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Research Engineer (RE2)
      started: 2020
      duration: (2020-present)
      description: <p>Research and risk analysis for safety-critical real-time systems based on Machine Learning techniques.</p>

    - work2:
      company: BBVA Data & Analytics S.L. - Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Data Scientist Industrial PhD student
      started: 2017
      duration: (2017-present)
      description: <p> Research about Uncertainty Modelling by using Deep Learning motivated by the bank problems. </p><p>...</p><p>2020-06-04 -- Journal article about <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9131769">Building uncertainty models on top of black-box predictive APIs</a>.</p><p>2019-12-11 -- NeurIPS'19 presentation of the article 'Modelling heterogeneous distributions with an Uncountable Mixture of Asymmetric Laplacians' (UMAL). <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12288">Article</a>, <a href="https://github.com/BBVA/UMAL">Code repo</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/369179175/a17d3de911">Video</a>. Introduced <a href="https://www.bbva.com/es/como-ensenar-a-la-inteligencia-artificial-a-decir-no-estoy-seguro/">here</a> and <a href="https://retina.elpais.com/retina/2019/12/20/innovacion/1576838697_328758.html?ssm=TW_CC">here</a>.</p></p><p>2019-10-01 -- Fall'19 BCN.ai.  <a href="https://w.tame.events/e/89635027"> Presentation about Aleatoric Uncertainty Modelling by using UMAL</a>.</p><p></p><p>2018-09-10 -- Regarding the aggregated time-series financial forecasting system the article entitled <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09011">'Uncertainty Modelling in Deep Networks Forecasting; Short and Noisy Series'</a> was presented at the Applied Data Science Track of ECML-PKDD 2018 and <a href="https://www.bbvadata.com/es/improving-predictions-in-deep-learning-by-modelling-uncertainty-2/">here</a>. The proposed model was afterwards used in the <a href="https://www.bbvadata.com/white_papers/advanced_ai.pdf">White Paper (collaboration between Google Cloud - BBVA Data Analytics)</a> and introduced <a href="https://www.bbvadata.com/es/bayesian-deep-learning-meets-google-cloud-for-a-better-forecasting-engine-at-bbva/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.bbva.com/es/bbva-y-google-cloud-desarrollan-un-modelo-de-ia-para-mejorar-la-prediccion-de-gastos-e-ingresos/">here</a>.</p><p></p><p>2018-05-13 -- First BCN.ai session, presenting <a href="https://w.tame.events/e/3177403">how to model all kinds of uncertainties by using a Deep Learning model</a>.</p><p></p><p>2018-03-14 -- BGSMath Presentation about <a href="http://doctoratsindustrials.gencat.cat/ca/events/view/108">Large-scale machine learning for financial recommender systems</a>.</p><p></p>

    - work3:
      company: IIIA - CSIC (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute)
      location: Bellaterra
      title: Big Data / Machine Learning research developer
      started: 2017
      duration: (2017)
      description: <p> Research developer in a industrial research project.</p>

    - work4:
      company: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Scholarship collaboration AAD with the department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis
      started: 2016
      duration: (2016)
      description: <p> Collaborating in support tasks with the university teachers.</p>

    - work5:
      company: DataScienceUB group, Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Course assistant in the <a href="http://www.ub.edu/datascience/deep/">Deep Learning from Scratch:</a> A short Course
      started: 2016
      duration: (2016)
      description: <p> Content review. </p><p>Teacher assistant during sessions.</p><p>Preparation and explanation of the theoretical and practical content of style transfer of images by using neural networks.</p>

    - work6:
      company: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Scholarship collaboration with the department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis
      started: 2015
      duration: (2015-2016)
      description: <p> Design and experimentation in new databases. </p><p>Building of new models of deep learning by using Caffe and TensorFlow.</p><p>Introducing to new techniques such as Style Transfer Image, Hallucinations, Dreaming by using deep learning algorithms.</p>

    - work7:
      company: Barcelona Super-Computing Center (BSC)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Research and experimental development on deep learning techniques
      started: 2015
      duration: (2015-2016)
      description: <p>Techniques to reconstruct the input by using the activations of the neural network. </p>

    - work8:
      company: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      location: Barcelona
      title: Building and training artificial deep learning techniques by using Caffe
      started: 2015
      duration: (2015)
      description: <p>Building a new model of deep learning improving the results obtained in my final degree dissertation.</p>

  educationHistory:
    - education1:
      organization: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV).
      degree: Master's Degree
      major: Artificial Intelligence
      started: 2017
      duration: (2015 - 2017)
      description: Master in Artificial Intelligence
    - education2:
      organization: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      degree: Bachelor's Degree
      major: Computer Engineering
      started: 2015
      duration: (2009 - 2015)
      description: Dual EHEA Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Engineering
    - education3:
      organization: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
      degree: Bachelor's Degree
      major: Mathematics
      started: 2015
      duration: (2009 - 2015)
      description: Dual EHEA Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Engineering

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