Sinérgicos R&D Grants by Comunidad de Madrid

We are pleased to announce that the GTS Research Group from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has been included in the provisional resolution of the Sinérgicos R&D grants awarded by the Community of Madrid. These highly competitive grants are designed to support disruptive, frontier research projects carried out jointly by two research groups from…

IDEA-CM project funded by Comunidad de Madrid

Title: Artificial Intelligence for Industry 4.0 (IDEA-CM) Ref.: TEC-2024/COM-89 Principal Investigator: Antonio Artés Rodríguez Starting Date: 01/01/2025 Ending Date: 31/12/2027 Budget: 1.026.000 € Background: The competitiveness of European industry is deeply linked to its ability to adopt and develop cutting-edge and innovative technologies. In this context, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into industrial processes is…

Doctoral Thesis Defense of María Martínez García

Title: Machine Learning in Personalized Medicine and Genomics. Author: María Martínez García. Abstract: Personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, aims to use an individual’s genetic profile to guide decisions on disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Unlike traditional medicine’s one-fits-all approach, personalized medicine considers individual variations that can influence disease risk, severity, treatment response, and susceptibility to…

Pablo Martinez Olmos Awarded 2024 Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation

Title: THAI: Towards Humble and Discoverable AI Principal Investigator: Pablo Martínez Olmos Starting Date: 30/09/2024 Ending Date: 30/03/2026 Budget: 40.000,00 Abstract: This project addresses concerns about overconfidence and reliability in generative AI. As AI technologies continue to reshape various sectors, the project’s primary motivation lies in mitigating the risks associated with AI’s persuasive capabilities, particularly…

Smartcrisis 2.0 research project Funded by “La Caixa” Foundation

Title: Multisite Smartphone-based Ecological Momentary Intervention for suicide prevention Ref.: HR23-00421 Principal Investigator: Antonio Artés Rodríguez Starting Date: 01/03/2024 Ending Date: 28/02/2027 Budget: 999.955,00 € Background: Suicide is a major public health issue that represents a leading cause of years of life lost and entails substantial costs for health and welfare systems. Prevention of suicide…

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 Interventions

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…