I am a second-year PhD candidate at ELLIS in Alicante Unit and I will visit MPI-SWS as part of the ELLIS PhD & PostDoc program. I am very lucky to be advised by Dr. Nuria Oliver and Dr. Manuel Gómez Rodríguez.
I’m currently focused on the sociotechnical problem of Algorithmic Fairness for Decision Making, boosted by Graph Theory and Causality (beyond i.i.d. and beyond observational respectively). I’m delving into the ethical implications of such decisions made by ML models, including concepts such as transparency, accountability, reliability, and fairness. Therefore, the main projects are developing algorithms that improves understanding of ML models with a focus un the data and it’s representations (how the data should be to make ML models fair?), the fairness problem in networks (the natural societal data type), the long-term effects of this models, the feedback loops of user-model and, last but no least, the actual application in the society (regulation and politics).
In the past, I’ve mainly worked in ML and DL applied to life science, as in my Bachelor’s and Master’s Thesis - both with outstanding results (honours) -. Besides, I also researched in network science and graph theory, leading to some conference papers about the understanding of the acadamic network.
Life
- Born in Burgos
Here is my career at a glance, click on it for a detailed view:
- AI & ML for Decision Making
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Graph Neural Networks and Network Science
- Causality
- Deep and Reinforcement Learning
ELLIS PhD student in ML, 2nd year
ELLIS Alicante and MPI-SWS (exchange)
MSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, 2021
Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
BSc in Computer Science, 2019
Burgos University
Publications
Experience
- DATAHES: Data Analysis Techniques Applied in Health Environments Sciences.
- Data Analysis in web behaviour
- Create digital content
- European project 2019-1-ES01-KA204-065615
- ADMIRABLE: Advanced Data MIning Research And [Business intelligence | Bioinformatics | Big Data] LEarning.
- Support VR research in data mining
- Support in MLaas platfomr: UBUMLaas
- Research in Network Analysis: 2 conference works
- Research in Parkinson’s Disease detenction through voice
Recent & Upcoming Talks
![[Chamber of Commerce] Round table about Sustainable AI](/talk/chamber-of-commerce-round-table-about-sustainable-ai/featured_hu7b2b6a7d496d929686bd3dbfd0fdbb57_240524_150x0_resize_q75_lanczos.jpg)
![[ELLIS-DMMLab (CMU) Workshop] Technical challenges of Algorithmic Fairness](/talk/ellis-dmmlab-cmu-workshop-technical-challenges-of-algorithmic-fairness/featured_hu2902ff76f2b0040e96936306cee50043_260666_150x0_resize_q75_lanczos.jpeg)
![[European Parliament - JURI Committee on Legal Affairs] Societal Challenges of Algorithmic Fairness](/talk/european-parliament-juri-committee-on-legal-affairs-societal-challenges-of-algorithmic-fairness/featured_hu03599eca487e8902f7577febae61b1bd_211170_150x0_resize_q75_lanczos.jpeg)
![[Tutorial Learning On Graphs Conference] Graph Rewiring: From Theory to Applications in Fairness](/talk/tutorial-learning-on-graphs-conference-graph-rewiring-from-theory-to-applications-in-fairness/featured_hu6894a2cbd47b265dd12585f07c101a93_600113_150x0_resize_lanczos_2.png)
Awards
Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher
2023 - 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
💡 I have been selected as one of the 200 young researchers to attend the 10th edition of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation in 2023 to spend a week attending talks and working together with more than 25 Laureates in the fields of Maths, Computer Science or Physics.
Outstanding Reviewer AISTATS 2023
2023 - Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2023
💡 Selected as Outstanding Reviewer of AISTATS 2023 (Top 10 %)
Outstanding Reviewer ICML 2022
2022 - International Conference on Machine Learning 2022
💡 Selected as Outstanding Reviewer of ICML 2022 (Top 10 %)
FPU PhD Fellowship (Declined)
2021 - Spanish Goverment - Universities Ministry
📚 Doctoral Fellowship given by Spanish Goverment. FPU20/03687. Grants for pre-doctoral contracts for the completion of doctoral theses, in Spanish Universities.
Extraordinary Award of Degree in Computer Engineering
2019 - Council of the University of Burgos
📚 Award for the best student qualification record of the Computer Engineering Degree from the University of Burgos, academic year 18/19.
Prototype Award
2019 - OTRI (Information Transfer Office of Burgos University)
💡 Project awarded: BSc Thesis:Use of bio-markers extracted from the voice for the detection of Parkinson. Financial aid and one year of advice for the project.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2019 - University of Burgos
📚 Assistant research Fellowship in the Civil Engineering department of the University of Burgos, research group ADMIRABLE. Research in the project ‘Use of biomarkers extracted from the voicefor the detection of Parkinson’, which is my final degree project (BSc Thesis), evaluated with honors.
3rd place in Spin-Up CyL Contest
2017 - Spin Up - Junior Achievement
💡 3 months of advice and access to conferences in Google for Startups Campus
8 out of 10 MSc Subjects graded with honours, included Thesis
GPA: 9.7 / 10
10 out of 39 BSc Subjects graded with honours, included Thesis
GPA: 8.9 / 10
Reviews
Program Committee member
- FAccT 2023 - ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.
- NeurIPS 2022 HCAI Workshop - NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Human Centered [Link]
- ECML-PKDD 2022 - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - x4 papers
Conferences
Workshops
- NeurIPS 2022 AFT Workshop - NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Time
- NeurIPS 2022 AFCP Workshop - NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Causality and Privacy x3 papers [Link]
Journals
- IEEE TNNLS 2023 - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems - Special Issue Graph Learning.
- PeerJ 2023 - PeerJ Computer Science.
- JMLR 2023 - Journal of Machine Learning Research
- Journal of Complexity 2022
- IEEE TCSS - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 2022.
Voluntary work and Scientific Dissemination
Scientific organization
- Co-organizer of Tutorial on Graph Rewiring: from Theory to Applications in Fairness at the First Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG)- Online, Dec 2022
- Head of organization of ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2022 - Alicante, Sep 2022
- Head of organization of ELLIS HCML Reading Group: guest sessions and round tables - Virtual, bi-weekly sessions
- Moderator of Qualcomm+ELLIS Reading Group Session about GNN+HCML - Online, Feb 2022
Round table: Pim de Haan, Carlos Castillo, Efstatios Gavves and Manuel Gómez Rodríguez
- Volunteer at NeurIPS Workshop “Human-Centered AI” - Virtual, Dec 2021
Open Source software
- Open source code from BSc and MSc final projects and all published papers
- Occasional collaborator in Lightly AI PyTorch-based library for Self-Supervised Learing. Main contributor of Lightly version 1.1.2
- More open source codes in GitHub: applications, experiments and data analysis
Featured Projects
Recent Posts
Thoughts, explanations or tutorials made by myself
Press Coverage
- “CHATGPT: La AEPD Investiga La App De Inteligencia Artificial” [Spanish], RTVE 1 - News, (13/04/2023)
- “Deep Learning: Premio Principe de Asturias 2022 - Comments about Y. LeCun, Y. Bengio, G. Hinton and D. Hassabis award” [SP], RTVE 1 - News, (28/10/2022)
- “Having (previous) strategy and retaining talent, Alicante’s strengths for hosting the National AI Agency” [SP], Información, (25/09/2022)
- “Artificial Intelligence, crucial to the future of companies” [SP], Información, Personal interview about EDS22 and the Future of AI, (20/09/2022)
- “ELLIS Alicante organizes the II ELLIS Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence at the University of Alicante (UA)” [SP], Información (12/09/2022)
- “Artificial Intelligence by and for people. ELLIS Foundation Alicante” [SP], Banco Sabadell Foundation, (22/03/22)
- “OTRI Awards: Market-Oriented Prototypes” [SP], Universidad de Burgos (29/10/2020)
- “2019-2020 Prototype Awards Ceremony” [SP], Universidad de Burgos (29/10/2020)
- “2019-2020 Prototype Awards Ceremony Video” [SP], YT Video, UBU Channel (29/10/2020)
- “AI to follow Parkinson”, El Mundo CyL, (28/01/2020 - Innovadores, pg. 7)
- “Voices that anticipate tremors” [SP], El Mundo CyL [Printed version], (17/12/2019, Innovadores, pg. 6).
- “Voices that anticipate tremors” [SP], El Mundo newspaper (Innovadores) (17/12/19)
- “Two UBU prototypes use artificial intelligence to detect and treat diseases” [SP], CDDII (02/12/2019)
- “University of Burgos prototype uses artificial intelligence to detect Parkinson’s disease” [SP], Entre Mayores (29/11/2019)
- “Two UBU prototypes use artificial intelligence to detect and treat diseases” [SP], Tele5 (28/11/2019)
- “Two UBU prototypes use artificial intelligence to detect and treat diseases” [SP], Burgos Conecta (28/11/2019)
- “Two UBU prototypes use artificial intelligence to detect and treat diseases” [SP], Universidad de Burgos (28/11/2019)
- “The digital pen that makes your notes clean and neat”, El Mundo (22/06/2017)
- “The ‘cop’ who detects drugs at the wheel”, El Mundo (14/03/2017)
Accomplishments
Contact
- adrian@ellisalicante.org
- ELLIS Alicante, Campus de San Vicente s/n, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, 03690
- Office 65
- @arnaiztech