Professional Experience
Faculty (W2), MPI for Software Systems, March 2021-now
Tenure-track Faculty (W2), MPI for Software Systems, November
2014-February 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI for Intelligent Systems, July 2013-October 2014
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 2013
MS, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, April 2009
Ingeniero Superior, Telecommunications Engineering, Carlos III
University, Madrid, Spain, July 2006
Interests and Current Research
Machine learning and data mining methods for the analysis, modeling and control of social, information and networked systems Human-centered machine learning
Honors and Awards
- ERC Consolidator Grant, 2024
- Best Paper Award at ICML Workshop on AI and HCI, 2023
- ERC Starting Grant, 2020
- ELLIS Fellow, 2019
- Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at WWW, 2017
- Outstanding Paper Award at NIPS, 2013
- Barrie de la Maza Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2013
- Student Travel Scholarship at ICML, 2011
- Best Research Paper Award Honorable Mention at KDD, 2010
- Student Travel Award at KDD, 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 the Workshop on "Human-Centric Machine Learning", Helsinki (Finland), June 2024.
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines" at ICML 2023, Honolulu (HI, USA)
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Human-Centered AI" at NeurIPS 2021, Virtual, December 2021
- Co-organizer of the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2021, Virtual, August 2021
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Algorithmic Recourse" at ICML 2021, Virtual, July 2021
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics" at ICLR 2021, Virtual, May 2021
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Human-Centric Machine Learning", Virtual, May 2021
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Learning with Temporal Point
Processes" at NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver (Canada), December 2019
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Human-Centric Machine Learning" at
NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver (Canada), December 2019
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Diffusion, Activity and Events in Networks: Models, Methods & Applications" at WWW 2015, May 2015
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Networks -- Processes and Causality" at DALI 2015, April 2015
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Diffusion Networks and Cascade Analytics" at WSDM 2014, February 2014
- Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Networks -- Processes and Causality", September 2012
- Co-organizer of the MLSS 2016, Andalucia (Spain), April/May 2016
- Grant panel member for Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung
(BMBF), Academy of Finland, Polish National Science Centre
- Grant reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Fund for Scientific
Research-FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO),
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC), Foundation for Polish Science, Czech Science Foundation, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, New Zealand Government, Portuguese Government
- Action Editor of JMLR (2021-) and TMLR (2024-)
- Reviewer for JMLR, Machine Learning, ACM TKDD, ACM TWEB, ACM TIST, Nature Human Behavior,
Science Advances, PNAS, PLOS One, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSP, IEEE TNSE, Information and Inference, Random Structures and
Algorithms, The Journal of Web Science, KAIS, SODA (2017)
- Steering Committee (SC) member of FAccT (2021-), ECML/PKDD (2023-)
- PC (co-)chair of ECML-PKDD (2023)
- Track (co-)chair of FAccT (2020)
- Workshop (co-)chair of ICML (2022) and NeurIPS (2024)
- Tutorial (co-)chair of WSDM (2024)
- Senior Area chair of NeurIPS (2022)
- Area chair of ICLR (2021-2025), NeurIPS (2016-2021, 2023-2024), UAI (2023-2024), WWW (2020-2022), KDD
(2019-2021, 2023-2025), WSDM (2018-2020, 2022-2023), AAAI (2020-2024), IJCAI (2019-2021), ICML (2018,
2021-2022), AISTATS (2018, 2022-2023), SDM (2018)
- Program Commmittee of ICML (2013-2017, 2019-2020), NeurIPS (2010, 2013-2015), ICLR
(2018-2020), KDD (2014-2018), WSDM (2013-2014, 2016-2017), WWW (2014-2019),
FAccT (2019, 2021), ICWSM (2014-2018), ICDM (2018-2019), SDM (2015-2017), AAAI (2016-2018), AISTATS
(2016-2017), IJCAI (2015-2016), CIKM (2014-2015) COSN (2014)
- Session Chair of NIPS (2016), WWW (2015, 2018), SDM (2015), COSN (2014), WSDM
(2014)
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