Ricard Gavaldà's home page

LARCA Research Group
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
c/Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3, Edif. Omega, room 232
08034 Barcelona, Spain

E-mail: gavalda(removethis)@lsi.upc.edu
Phone: +34-93-413-7877
Fax: +34-93-413-7787
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~gavalda

In Iguazu Falls

I work at the Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. This translates to English as Department of Software, Technical University of Catalonia.

I am interested in Algorithmics of Data Mining and Machine Learning, Computational Learning Theory, and Computational Complexity.
Have a look at my PAPERS.
I have supervised the Ph.D.theses of Carlos Domingo (currently at Telefónica I+D), David Guijarro (currently at Mannes Technology), and Victor Dalmau (currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra). I am currently advising Albert Bifet.

The EU PASCAL2 Network on Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling, and Computational Learning (followup of the successful PASCAL Network).
The EU DELIS Project on Dynamically Evolving, Large-Scale Information Systems (finished on March 2008).
The MOISES-TA project, together with U. Màlaga and U. Zaragoza. Check the technical proposal.
I've recently acted as Local Arrangements Chair for the ALT'06 and DS'06 conferences (Barcelona, October 7-10th, 2006),
I've recently been in the Program Committees of ALT'08, DS'08, DS'07. ICALP'07, and STACS'07.
I've also been in the Program Committee of The First Workshop on Teaching Machine Learning (St. Etienne, May 5-7, 2008), where I presented this note on why I think the basics of Machine Learning can and should be taught in some high schools.

Last update: September 4th, 2008
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~gavalda