Awards & Competitions
Prizes, research grants, competition wins, and benchmark results.
15
Awards & prizes
3
Best paper awards
3
Competition wins / placements
1996β
Since
Prizes, Awards & Grants
-
π₯2013Competition β 2nd placeSecond place in the Big Data Challenge β International Conference on Social Computing, Behavior-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP-Challenge 2013)Washington DC, US. Paper: "Multi-Objective Optimization Approach to Detecting Extremal Patterns in Social Networks." As main author.
-
π2012Best paper awardBest Paper Award β IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012)Paper: "Structural transfer using EDAs: An application to multi-marker tagging SNP selection." As main author.
-
π2012Young researcher awardMAEB Best Paper by Young Researcher β VIII Congreso EspaΓ±ol sobre MetaheurΓsticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB-2012)Award funded by the "Granada Excellence Network of Innovation Laboratories." Paper: "Clases de Equivalencia en Algoritmos de EstimaciΓ³n de Distribuciones." Albacete, Spain, February 8β10, 2012. As coauthor.
-
π₯2011Competition β 2nd placeSecond place β Mind Reading from MEG PASCAL ChallengeHeld at the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, June 14β17, 2011, Espoo, Finland. Approach: "An ensemble of classifiers approach with multiple sources of information."
-
π2011Best student paperBest Student Paper Award β IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2011)Paper: "On the limits of effectiveness in estimation of distribution algorithms." As coauthor.
-
π₯2010Competition β WinnerWinner β Data Analysis Competition: Classification Approaches, 17th Conference of Biomagnetism (Biomag2010)Approach: "Classification of MEG data using a combined machine learning approach." As main author.
-
π2010Best paper awardBest Paper Award β 23rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2010)Paper: "Synergies between network-based representation and probabilistic graphical models for classification, inference and optimization problems in neurosciences." As main author.
-
π2009Best student paperBest Student Paper Award β IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009)Paper: "Analyzing the probability of the optimum in EDAs based on Bayesian networks." As coauthor.
-
π2008Extraordinary PhD awardPhD Dissertation Extraordinary Award β University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)Awarded to the PhD Dissertation: "Advances in Probabilistic Graphical Models for Optimization and Learning Applications in Protein Modelling."
-
π2003Travel grantTravel grant β 2003 European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML)Awarded for the presentation of the paper: "A Markov network factorized distribution algorithm." As main author.
-
π¬2001Research grantResearch grant β Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)Three-month research stay at the Institut Autonome Intelligente Systeme (IAST), Bonn, Germany. Working on stochastic optimization using probabilistic models.
-
π2001Travel grantACM Travel Grant β 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)Awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for the presentation of the paper: "On estimation of distribution algorithms." As main author.
-
π2000National awardYearly National Award of the Academy of Sciences of CubaAwarded for the results of the scientific activity of the project: "Low cost evolutionary algorithms. Partial evaluation and optimization algorithms with factorized probability distributions." As coauthor.
-
π1999Travel grantTravel grant β European Union Advanced Course on Computational NeuroscienceHeld at the International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
-
π₯1996National awardCuban Yearly National Award β Top 10 Diploma Theses in Computer SciencesAwarded for the thesis: "Algoritmos GenΓ©ticos para un problema de caminos Hamiltonianos" (Genetic Algorithms for a Hamiltonian path problem).
Competition Participations
π₯ Winner β Biomag2010 MEG Classification Challenge
2010
Won the Data Analysis Competition: Classification Approaches, at the 17th Conference of Biomagnetism (Biomag2010). Approach: machine learning-based classification of MEG data using ensemble methods.
π₯ 2nd place β Mind Reading from MEG PASCAL Challenge (2011)
2011
Placed second in the international PASCAL challenge on brain-signal decoding. Challenge held at ICANN 2011, Espoo, Finland. Used an ensemble of classifiers with multiple sources of information.
π₯ 2nd place β SBP Big Data Challenge (2013)
2013
Second place at the Big Data Challenge of the 2013 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavior-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP-2013), Washington DC. Used a multi-objective optimization approach for detecting extremal patterns in social networks.
Algorithm Benchmarks
Benchmarking MOEAs for Continuous Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Problems
Systematic benchmarking of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) for solving continuous multi-objective reinforcement learning problems. Comparison of NSGA-II, MOEA/D, and other state-of-the-art algorithms.
Fitness Landscape Analysis Benchmarks
Contributions to fitness landscape analysis benchmarks for evolutionary computation, including analysis of NK landscapes and combinatorial optimization problems.
Kaggle Competitions
Various data science competitions
Participation in multiple Kaggle competitions covering machine learning, tabular data, time series, and classification challenges.