Keynote Speakers
Eduardo Blanco
University of Arizona, USA
Eduardo is professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. He is affiliated with Applied Math and Cognitive Science.
Omar Alonso
Amazon Science
Omar Alonso is a senior manager of applied science at Amazon. In addition, Omar Alonso is a part-time lecturer at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.
Fernando De La Torre
Cargenie Mellon University, USA
Fernando De la Torre received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications, as well as his M.Sc. and Ph. D degrees in Electronic Engineering from La Salle School of Engineering at Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain in 1994, 1996, and 2002, respectively
Armando Solar-Lezama
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), USA
Armando is a Distinguished Professor of Computing at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Armando leads the Computer Assisted Programming Group . The focus of my research is program synthesis, an exciting research area that lies at the intersection of Programming Systems and Artificial Intelligence.
Jorge Ortiz
Rutgers University, USA
Jorge Ortiz spent 5 years as a research staff member at IBM Research, where he attained over a dozen patents working on machine learning for cyber-physical systems and the Internet-of-Things.
Maciej Ogrodniczuk
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Since 2010 Maciej has been involved in the field of semantic processing of Polish discourse in the field of coreference and methods of its automatic resolution with computational-linguistic methods.
Hugo Alatrista-Salas
De Vinci Higher Education, Paris, France
Hugo Alatrista-Salas is a full-time professor at De Vinci Higher Education in Paris, France. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Montpellier, France, in collaboration with the University of New Caledonia. His thesis focused on spatiotemporal pattern mining from georeferenced data related to health and environmental issues. His research focuses on extracting knowledge from data using techniques such as pattern mining, machine learning, text mining and information visualisation. He is also the Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Ping4All, a sports and health technology company founded to promote people's physical and mental well-being worldwide. He also co-founded SIMBig, one of the most important conferences in Latin America.
Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura
National Institutes of Heath, USA
Antonio works as a Research Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. Within the NIH, I is a member of the Machine Learning Team based at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH-NIH). His professional background encompasses expertise and research experience in the following areas, with a specific focus on their application in health and biomedicine: (1) data science, (2) natural language processing (NLP), (3) machine learning, and (4) knowledge bases.
