Guillermo Torres successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on March 19, 2024, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Currently, there is a growing trend in cancer cases, with lung cancer leading in cancer-related deaths and ranking second in new cases, just behind … Read more
Rubèn Pérez Tito successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on November 13, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task where given an image and a natural language question, the objective is to generate a natural … Read more
Bonifaz Stuhr successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on November 13, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Unsupervised representation learning aims at finding methods that learn representations from data without annotation-based signals. Abstaining from annotations not only leads to economic benefits … Read more
Pioneer Award 2023 Diego Velázquez successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on July 14, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Dr. Velázquez was recognized with a Pioneer Award for the commercial orientation of his thesis by the CERCA Institute – Centres de Recerca de Catalunya – on December … Read more
Yi Xiao successfully defended her dissertation on Computer Science on July 10, 2023, and she is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? In autonomous driving, artificial intelligence (AI) processes the traffic environment to drive the vehicle to a desired destination. Currently, there are different paradigms that address … Read more
Pioneer Award 2023 Shiqi Yang successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on July 03, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Dr. Yang was recognized with a Pioneer Award for the commercial orientation of his thesis by the CERCA Institute – Centres de Recerca de Catalunya – on December … Read more
José Yauri successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on May 05, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? For millennia, the study of the couple brain-mind has fascinated humanity in order to understand the complex nature of cognitive states. A cognitive state is … Read more
Jose Luis Gómez Zurita successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on March 23, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? The curse of data labeling is a costly bottleneck in supervised deep learning, where large amounts of labeled data are needed to train … Read more
Chenshen Wu successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on March 16, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Deep learning has made tremendous progress in the last decade due to the explosion of training data and computational power. Through end-to-end training on a … Read more
Armin Mehri successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on February 10, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Human vision is restricted to the visual-optical spectrum. Machine vision is not. Cameras sensitive to diverse infrared spectral bands can improve the capacities of … Read more
