Current Position
Ph.D. Student
Dept. Empirical Inference (Dept. Head: Bernhard Schölkopf)
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Dept. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Educational Background
10.2009-nowPh.D. Student
 supervised by Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Jan Peters and Bernhard Schölkopf
 Dept. Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
09.2009-nowPh.D. Student
 supervised by Andrew Ng and Bernhard Schölkopf
 Dept. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
09.2007-04.2009Master of Science
 Dept. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
09.2001-07.2006Ingenieria de Telecomunicacion
 University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
2001Selectividad (Spanish Abitur)
 
Research Positions
06.2008-09.2008Research Intern
 Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
 supervised by Bernhard Schölkopf
09.2004-06.2005Research Assistant
 Department of Telematics, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
 
Work Experience
07.2006-06.2007Graduate Engineer at Analog Devices
 Limerick, Ireland
 
Oral Presentations and Workshop Organization
10.2010Closing the Sensorimotor Loop: Haptic Feedback Facilitates Decoding of Arm Movement Imagery
 at the SMC Workshop on Shared-Control for Brain-Machine Interfaces
08.2010Epidural ECoG Online Decoding of Arm Movement Intention in Hemiparesis
 at the 1st ICPR Workshop on Brain Decoding
06.2010Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence
 at the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
06.2010BCI and Robotics Framework for Stroke Rehabilitation
 at the 4th International BCI Meeting
 
Awards and Honors
2010-2012Graduate Fellowship from Pedro Barrie de la Maza Foundation
2010KDD Student Travel Award
2010International BCI Meeting Student Scholarship
2007-2009Graduate Fellowship from Caja Madrid Foundation
2007-2008Graduate Fellowship from Caixa Galicia Foundation (declined)
2004-2006Undergraduate Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education
 
Paper Reviewing
2010Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG)
 Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN)
 
References, etc.
References are available upon request.