Hello, I'm Juan!

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I am a Machine Learning Specialist at ABN AMRO Clearing Bank, insvestigating and developing a product for unsupervised learning and anomaly detection. In 2018, I finished my PhD in Automatic Control, Robotics and Vision, obtaining Cum Laude for my work on bio-inspired artificial intelligence. I have worked as a researcher and lecturer at Ramon LLull University in Barcelona. My current interests are Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, exploring Deep Neural Networks and their application.

Keywords: Machine Learning Neural Networks Python Tensorflow Robotics

About me.

I am an engineer and researcher focused on Machine Learning, with interest in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. As an engineer, I analyze and solve problems in order to make things work. My researcher nature makes me very curious about finding scientific explanations to observed phenomena. Combining both perspectives, along with technical expertise, helps me to understand new problems and generate knowledge and innovative machine learning solutions.

Experienced modeling high-dimensional unstructured data (numerical, text, images, categorical, speech) using different learning approaches according to the task at hand. Recently, I have been working on projects involving Deep Learning, where I contribute as researcher, designer and developer to build data and modelling pipelines. I have collaborated to build production-like versions of Autoencoders (Variational, Wasserstein, and Sinkhorn), clustering with deep embedding and incremental Gaussian mixture models. I also have experience implementing collaborative learning and reinforcement learning.

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Profesional Experience

Senior Machine Learning Specialist

(March 2019-Present) ABN-AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. Building a production system end-to-end for anomaly detection in transaction data. I contribute in the architecture design, implementation and research for data pipelines, deep neural networks desing, and production deployment.

Lecturer

(February 2018-January 2019) Universitat La Salle-Ramon Llull. I was teaching Linear Algebra and Automatic Control System. By teaching I learned many things about myself. Worked on my presentation skills and orginizing knowledge in such a way it could be grasped by other minds. I will be always satisfied with the good reviews I got from my students.

Roboticist

(September 2018-January 2019) YASYT Robotics. As a collaboration with La Salle University, I was assigned to work with YASYT Robotics. In my days collaboring with YASYT, I was helping to deploy the software in the Pepper robots that we were using. Taking part of "La Marató de TV3" in 2018 using a robot was an amazing experience.

Education

PhD in Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision.

(2014-2018) I developed a research in the area of bioinspired artificial intelligence. I used intrinsically motivated exploration architectures to learn sensorimotor models. The main focus was to look for feasible explanations from some of the behaviors that are observed in children during early acquisition of speeh (babbling). I was granted the maximum grade and cum laude. [pdf]

MSc in Automatic Control and Robotics

(2012-2014) Barcelona Tech. The master's degree in Automatic Control and Robotics focuses on engineering in the fields of automatic control and robotics. It combines knowledge of industrial engineering, such as electrical and mechanical engineering, industrial electronics and some aspects of artificial intelligence. [register, pdf]

Mechatronics Engineering Degree

(2006-2012) National Autonomous University of Mexico. During the first 2 years of my bachelors I received a very stron education in basic exact sciences, related to algebra, math, arithmetics and mechanics. Later my bachelors had a focus on electronics, mechatronics, programming, automatic control and product design. My thesis was focused on learning non-lineaar models for wind generators inspired by friction phenomena and using machine learning. [pdf, Spanish]

Scientific Publications

    J.M. Acevedo-Valle, C. Angulo and C. Moulin-Frier (2017) Autonomous Discovery of Motor Constraints in an Intrinsically-Motivated Vocal Learner. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. [DOI 10.1109/TCDS.2017.2699578]

  • J.M. Acevedo-Valle, K. Trejo and C. Angulo (2017) Multivariate Regression with Incremental Learning of Gaussian Mixture Models. 20th International Conference of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2017).

  • J.M. Acevedo-Valle, V.V. Hafner and C. Angulo (2017) Social Reinforcement in Intrinsically Motivated Sensorimotor Exploration for Embodied Agents with Constraints Awareness. Seventh Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EPIROB 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • J.M. Acevedo-Valle, C. Ruiz, V.V. Hafner and C. Angulo (2017) Deep Neural Networks in Social Reinforced Sensorimotor Exploration. 2nd Workshop on Language Learning at ICDL-EPIROB 2017, Lisbon, Portugal. [Link]

  • J.M. Acevedo-Valle, C. Angulo, C. Moulin-Frier and K. Trejo (2016) The Role of Somatosensory Models in Vocal Autonomous Exploration. Innovation Match MX 2015-2016, Guadalajara, Mexico. Revista Internacional de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica, vol. 4, no. 23. ISSN: 2007-9753. [pdf]

  • J.M. Acevedo-Valle, C. Angulo, N. Agell and C. Moulin-Frier (2015) Proprioceptive Feedback and Intrinsic Motivations in Early-Vocal Development. 18th International Conference of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2015), pp. 9-18, Valencia, Spain. IOS Press. [DOI 10.3233/978-1-61499-578-4-9] [pdf]

  • J.M. Acevedo-Valle, C. Angulo, C. Moulin-Frier and K. Trejo (2016) The Role of Somatosensory Models in Vocal Autonomous Exploration. Innovation Match MX 2015-2016, Guadalajara, Mexico. Revista Internacional de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica, vol. 4, no. 23. ISSN: 2007-9753. [pdf]

  • J.M. Acevedo-Valle, V.V. Hafner and C. Angulo (2017) Social Reinforcement in Intrinsically Motivated Sensorimotor Exploration for Embodied Agents with Constraints Awareness. Seventh Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EPIROB 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • J.M. Acevedo-Valle, C. Angulo, N. Agell and C. Moulin-Frier (2015) Proprioceptive Feedback and Intrinsic Motivations in Early-Vocal Development. 18th International Conference of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2015), pp. 9-18, Valencia, Spain. IOS Press. [DOI 10.3233/978-1-61499-578-4-9] [pdf]

Speaker

I enjoy sharing knowledge, as a mean of learning and getting feedback to continously improve. Some special ocations are mentioned below.

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Robotics Conference.

  • Lisbon, Portugal. September 19, 2017.

7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics.

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Artificial Intelligence Conferences.

  • Valencia, Spain. October 21, 2015.

Pending...

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Artificial Intelligence Conferences.

  • Deltebre, Spain. October 25, 2017.

Pending...

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Finance in Machine Learning Course.

  • London, England. June 21, 2019.

Pending...

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Finance in Machine Learning Course.

  • London, England. June 21, 2019.

Pending...

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Finance in Machine Learning Course.

  • London, England. February 21, 2020.

Pending...

Academic Awards

  • October, 2019. Marc Esteva Vivanco Award 2018 to the Best Artificial Intelligence Doctoral Thesis. Sponsor: Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence.

  • October, 2017. CCIA student's travel grants. Sponsor: The Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA).

  • September, 2017. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Travel Grant. Sponsor: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics.

  • March, 2017. Postgraduate Mobility Grant. Sponsor: La Caixa Foundation.

  • November, 2015. NCCR Robotics PhD fellowship. Sponsor: The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics (Switzerland).

  • October, 2015. CCIA student's travel grants. Sponsor: The Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA).

  • September, 2014. International Postgraduate Studentship. Sponsor: CONACyT. ( National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico).

  • September, 2012. International Postgraduate Studentship. Sponsor: CONACyT ( National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico).

  • April, 2012. Program for students with overstanding performance. Sponsor: Engineering Faculty [Link].

Contact

You can reach to me on contact@juanacevedo.me

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