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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.

Research

• 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), Victor Dalmau (currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and (together with José L. Balcázar) Albert Bifet.

Current research projects and activities

• Organizing committee of ECML/PKDD 2010 (Barcelona, september 2010)
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• The EU PASCAL2 Network on Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling, and Computational Learning (followup of the successful PASCAL Network).
• The MICINN SESAAME project, together with U. Màlaga and U. Zaragoza (2009-2011).

Recent research projects and activities

• The MOISES-TA project, together with U. Màlaga and U. Zaragoza (2005-2008).
• The EU DELIS Project on Dynamically Evolving, Large-Scale Information Systems (finished March 2008).
• Conference Chair of The 20th Conf. on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT'09 (Porto, 3-5 october 2009).
• Local Arrangements Chair for the ALT'06 and DS'06 conferences (Barcelona, October 7-10th, 2006).
• Program Committee member of DS'09 (Porto, october 2009), ECML/PKDD 2009 (Bled, Slovenia, september 2009), 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.

Teaching

• I teach mostly at the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (Barcelona School of Informatics).
• I am currently teaching/recently taught Bases de Dades, Recuperació de la Informació, and Projecte de Programació.
• Some writings and publications related to teaching.

Other

• People in my department.
• Technical Reports at my department.
• Instructions for reaching my office.
• Information on beautiful Barcelona:
  • Barcelona home page, and a presentation.
  • Tourism in Barcelona.