News

  • Our team appeared on the news regarding our recent results on assistive technology [in spanish].
  • I got interviewed again by the local radio about our research on assistive devices [in spanish]. (min 3:16)
  • Our team participated in two Ego4D challenges for CVPR2024. Thanks to the terrific work by Carlos Plou and Lorenzo Mur we won the Goal Step challenge! 🏆🥇 And Lorenzo also got second place in the Short Term Object Interaction Anticipation Challenge! 🏆🥈
  • I have been accepted as a the first ELLIS member from UniZar. ELLIS - the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems - is a pan-European AI network of excellence which focuses on fundamental science, technical innovation and societal impact.
  • I got interviewed by the local TV about the recent developments in AI [in spanish].
  • Congrats to Javier Rodriguez-Puigvert for successfully defending his PhD viva, including a live demo of LightDepth!
  • My student, Carlos Plou, got second place in the Triple Helix price for technology transfer in Aragon. Congratulations!
  • In the same week, we had two papers at ICCV in Paris and one at IROS in Detroit. So proud of our team!
  • I've been selected as a top 10% reviewer for AISTATS 2022.
  • My student Melani Sanchez-García successfully defended her PhD viva on prosthetic vision. Congratulations, Melani!
  • I'm co-organizing a workshop for IROS 2021: Egocentric vision for interactive perception, learning, and control.
  • Excited to say that SigOpt, the startup I've been a collaborator for 4 years, has been acquired by Intel. Congratulations to the amazing team that has made it possible.
  • After almost 9 years at CUD Zaragoza, I'm starting in my new position in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Zaragoza.
  • Invited to the Machine Learning and Computer Vision panel discussion at the Spanish automatic meeting.
  • Series of conferences in Zaragoza about AI from different perspectives: psychology, neuroscience and engineering.
  • We are organizing a workshop on Bayesian optimization at NIPS: BayesOpt 2017
  • Currently on-leave to work at SigOpt, Bayesian optimization as a service.
  • We are looking for a candidate to work on a project combining machine learning and wearable technologies (finished).
  • I'll be at the Active learning in robotics workshop at Humanoids 2014.
  • New Journal of Machine Learning Research paper about Bayesian optimization.
  • Invited talk at Tecsmedia 2014.
  • We won the Santander Chair 2013 prize for innovation in the use of IT for teaching.
  • The BayesOpt library can also be found on mloss and github.
  • I have been invited to give a seminar at IRI in Barcelona.
  • New library on Bayesian optimization freely available! Check the Software section.
  • We are preparing the lab sessions of the 18th Machine Learning Summer School, co-organized by INRIA and PASCAL. You can find the materials here.
  • At the 1st REACTS workshop, I'll give one of the invited talks.
  • I have been invited to participate in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Exploration and Curiosity in Robot Learning and Inference.
  • The videos from the talks for our RSS workshops are also available on Videolectures.
  • After two wonderful years at Instituto Superio Tecnico as a postdoc, it is time to move on. I will be a profesor at the new Centro Universitario de la Defensa, in Zaragoza, Spain.
  • The videos from the talks for our RSS workshops are now available online.
  • Next week, I'll be in Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, where I'll also give a talk.
  • I have been invited to give two talks next week, on Wednesday 26th May at Escuela Superior de Ingenieros at the Univeridad de Sevilla at 17:00h and on Thursday 27th May at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación at the Universidad de Malaga at 16:00h.
  • Our full-day workshop Towards Closing the Loop: Active Learning for Robotics will be at Robotics: Science and Systems conference.
  • Jointly with Rui Castro and Nando de Freitas, I'm organizing the NIPS workshop on Adaptive Sensing, Active Learning and Experimental Desing.
  • Our paper on Bayesian exploitation-exploration for optimal navigation and mapping was accepted in Autonomous Robots - Special issue on Robot Learning.
  • I'm going to give one of the invited talks at IbPRIA!
  • Our cute robot "Chico" was on TV