Jose M. (Chema) Peña
Verified Expert in Engineering
Machine Learning Developer
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.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
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
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.
Associate Professor
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).
Experience
AIKINOS House Builder
Resilience2050.eu
RISC: A network for Supporting the Coordination of Supercomputing Research Between Europe and Latin America
http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/100036_en.htmlRETHINK Big: A Roadmap for European Technologies in Hardware and Networking for Big Data
http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/191645_es.htmlHuman Brain Project
https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/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.
Skills
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
Education
Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Integrated Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
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