Resume (pdf)

Education

  • PhD, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 2013 (expected)

  • 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

  • ICML Student Travel Scholarship, 2011
  • Barrie de la Maza Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2013
  • 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 Workshop "Networks -- Processes and Causality", September 2012
  • Program Commmittee of WSDM 2014, NIPS 2013, ICML 2013, WSDM 2013, NIPS 2010, RSS 2010
  • Reviewer for TKDD, Random Structures and Algorithms, CIKM 2011, MLG 2010, WOSN 2010

Publications

Talks