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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

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I work at the Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (also known as UPC-BarcelonaTech). This translates to English as Department of Software, Technical University of Catalonia.

Research

• I am interested in Algorithmics of Data Mining and Machine Learning, Data Stream processing and mining techniques and applications, Computational Learning Theory, and Computational Complexity
• Have a look at my PAPERS
• Actively interested in knowledge/technology transfer and industrial collaborations in the fields of interest
• I have supervised the Ph.D. theses of
  • Carlos Domingo (1999) currently at Telefónica I+D
  • David Guijarro (2000), currently at Telefónica I+D
  • Victor Dalmau (2000) currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Albert Bifet (2009) (co-supervised with José L. Balcázar), currently postdoc at the Machine Learning group, University of Waikato
  • Javier Alonso (2011) (co-supervised with Jordi Torres), currently Associate Postdoctoral Researcher at Duke University.
• I am currently supervising the Ph.D. theses of
  • Borja de Balle (co-supervised with Jorge Castro)
  • Josep Lluis Berral (co-supervised with Jordi Torres)

Current research projects and activities

• Co-editor of an special issue of the ACM TIST journal on Social Web Mining. Submit via the Manuscript Central. Deadline EXTENDED to Feb 28, 2012.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Pautomac: The ICGI 2012 probabilistic automata learning competition. November 2011-September 2012.
• 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).
• The MICINN BASMATI project (Biological and Social Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory, and Implementations) (2012-2014), together with U. Zaragoza and U. Cantabria

Recent research projects and activities

• Co-chair of the IJCAI Intl. Workshop on Social Web Mining (Barcelona, july 2011).
• Organization co-chair of ECML PKDD 2010 (Barcelona, september 2010).
• Conference Chair of The 20th Conf. on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT'09 (Porto, 3-5 october 2009).
• 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).
• Program Committee member of ALT'2011, IDA'2011, ECML PKDD 2011, ICALP 2011, IJCAI 2011, ICML 2011. ECML PKDD 2010, ICML 2010, DS'09, and ECML PKDD 2009.

Teaching

• I teach mostly at the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (Barcelona School of Informatics).
• NEW: Presentacions de Programació 2
• I am currently teaching Programming 1, Programming 2 and Search and Analysis of Massive Information, Information Retrieval, and Information Retrieval (DMKD Erasmus mundus)
• I have recently taught Databases and Programming Projects.
I also sometimes teach a course on Computational Learning Theory at the Master in Computing of the Departament LSI. Check the Course blog for Fall 2010.
• I presented this note on why I think the basics of Machine Learning can and should be taught in some high schools, at the First Workshop on Teaching Machine Learning (St. Etienne, France, May 6-7, 2008).

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.