Jose M. (Chema) Peña, Developer in Oxford, United Kingdom
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Jose M. (Chema) Peña

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Machine Learning Developer

Location
Oxford, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
January 23, 2018

Jose is a data scientist and artificial intelligence consultant with more than 15 years of experience in industries such as finance, aeronautics, logistics, and healthcare. He has published more than 150 scientific papers and has been a panel evaluator of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Research Council of Canada, and the EU Commission.

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

PyCharm, Visual Studio

The most amazing...

...thing I have coded were procedural content generation, simulation, and artificial intelligence algorithms for digital content industries.

Work Experience

Director

2015 - PRESENT
Lurtis Limited
  • Acted as the director of my own company providing consultancy services in artificial intelligence, data science, simulation, and optimization.
  • Wrote AIKINOS procedural architecture software.
Technologies: Python, C#

Associate Professor

2001 - 2014
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Earned the following national accreditations: in Spain, associate professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) [2003] and full professor (Catedrático de Universidad) [2015] and in France, associate professor (Maître de Conférences) [2005].
  • Evaluated Ph.D. grants, research, projects, and infrastructure for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education at UPM.
  • Acted as the vice-dean for international relations on behalf of the Computer Science School.
  • Worked in the capacity of deputy director of the Computer Architecture Department and as the deputy director for the Madrid Supercomputing Centre (CeSViMa).
Technologies: Distributed Systems, System Programming, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AIKINOS House Builder

A procedural content generation software to create 3D building structures for digital content industries (video games, animation, VR, and film) and architecture.

Resilience2050.eu

Resilience2050 is a European FP7 aviation collaborative research project. Resilience2050 was coordinated by Innaxis, and there are six participants from five different countries.

RISC: A network for Supporting the Coordination of Supercomputing Research Between Europe and Latin America

http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/100036_en.html
The RISC project aims at deepening the strategic R&D cooperation between Europe (EU) and Latin America (LA) in the field of high performance computing (HPC) by building a multinational and multi-stakeholder community that will involve a significant representation of the relevant HPC R&D EU and LA actors (researchers, policy makers, and users).

RETHINK Big: A Roadmap for European Technologies in Hardware and Networking for Big Data

http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/191645_es.html
The objective of the RETHINK big project is to bring together the key European hardware, networking, and system architects with the key producers and consumers of big data to identify the industry coordination points that will maximize European competitiveness in the processing and analysis of big data over the next ten years.

Human Brain Project

https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/
The Human Brain Project is an H2020 FET flagship project which strives to accelerate the fields of neuroscience, computing, and brain-related medicine.
This acceleration will be achieved by a strategic alignment of scientific research programmes in fundamental neuroscience, advanced simulation and multi-scale modeling with the construction of an enabling research infrastructure.

Paradigms

Distributed Computing, Parallel Computing, Data Science, High-performance Computing

Other

Project Consultancy, Startup Consulting, Consulting, Higher Education, Research, Numerical Optimization, Genetic Algorithms, Simulations, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), System Programming, Bayesian Statistics, Optimization Algorithms, Operations Research, Heuristics, Medical Applications, Distributed Systems, Finance, Architecture, Logistics, Neuroscience

Languages

C#, Python

1997 - 2001

Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Madrid, Spain

1991 - 1997

Integrated Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Madrid, Spain

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