Doctoral Thesis Defense of Ignacio Peis Aznarte

Title: Advanced Inference and Representation Learning Methods in Variational Autoencoders. Author: Ignacio Peis Aznarte Abstract: Deep Generative Models have gained significant popularity in the Machine Learning research community since the early 2010s. These models allow to generate realistic data by leveraging the power of Deep Neural Networks. The field experienced a signficant breakthrough when Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)…

Doctoral Thesis Defense of Daniel Barrejon Moreno

Title: How can humans leverage machine learning? From Medical Data Wrangling to Learning to Defer to Multiple Experts. Author: Daniel Barrejon Moreno. Abstract:The irruption of the smartphone into everyone’s life and the ease with which we digitise or record any data supposed an explosion of quantities of data. Smartphones, equipped with advanced cameras and sensors, have empowered…

Article published in Internet Intercentions

Title Automatic patient functionality assessment from multimodal data using deep learning techniques – Development and feasibility evaluation Authors Emese Sukei, Santiago de Leon Martinez, Pablo M. Olmos and Antonio Artés-Rodríguez Abstract Wearable devices and mobile sensors enable the real-time collection of an abundant source of physiological and behavioural data unobtrusively. Unlike traditional in-person evaluation or…

Article accepted for publication in Jmir

Title One-week suicide risk prediction using real-time smartphone monitoring Authors Maria Luisa Barrigon; Lorena Romero-Medrano; Pablo Moreno-Muñoz; Alejandro Porras-Segovia; Jorge Lopez-Castroman; Philippe Courtet; Antonio Artés-Rodríguez; Enrique Baca-Garcia Abstract Background: Suicide is a major global public health issue becoming increasingly common despite preventive efforts. Though current methods for predicting suicide risk are not sufficiently accurate, technological…

Funding success within the call «Medicina Personalizada de Precisión»

Antonio Artés Rodríguez and Pablo Martínez Olmos have recieved funding for two collaborative research projects within the call «Medicina Personalizada de Precisión» granted by Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Madrid. Antonio Artés Rodríguez Title: Integrating longitudinal patient-generated data and multi-omic profiling for comprehensive precision oncology in womens’ cancers Ref.: PMP22/00032 Principal Investigator: Quintela, Miguel…

Doctoral Thesis Defense of Fernando Moreno Pino

Title: Deep Attentive Time Series Modelling for Quantitative Finance Author: Fernando Moreno Pino Supervisors:  Antonio Artés Rodríguez, Pablo M. Olmos Abstract: Time series modelling and forecasting is a persistent problem with extensive implications in scientific, business, industrial, and economic areas. This thesis’ contribution is twofold. Firstly, we propose a novel probabilistic time series forecasting methodology that introduces…

Article accepted for publication in Neural Networks

Title Regularizing transformers with deep probabilistic layers Authors Aurora Cobo Aguilera, Pablo M. Olmos, Antonio Artés-Rodríguez and Fernando Pérez-Cruz Abstract Language models (LM) have grown non-stop in the last decade, from sequence-to-sequence architectures to attention-based Transformers. However, regularization is not deeply studied in those structures. In this work, we use a Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoder…

Doctoral Thesis Defense of Emese Sükei

Title: “A Step Towards Advancing Digital Phenotyping In Mental Healthcare” Advisor: Antonio Artés Rodríguez. ABSTRACT Smartphones and wrist-wearable devices have penetrated our lives in recent years. According to published statistics, nearly 84% of the world’s population owns a smartphone, and almost 10% own a wearable device today (2022). These devices continuously generate various data sources…

Doctoral Thesis Defense of Lorena Romero Medrano

Title: Change-Point Detection Methods for Behavioral Shift Recognition in Mental Healthcare Author: Lorena Romero (GTS) ABSTRACT Human behavior analysis has been approached from different perspectives along time. In recent years, the emergence of new technologies and digitalization advances have risen as an alternative tool for behavior characterization, as well as for the detection of changes over time. In particular,…