Cecilio Angulo

UPC AI Champion. ENIA AI Chair UPC - Siemens Energy Director. UPC Data Space Coordinator

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

BSc/MSc in Mathematics (University of Barcelona, Spain) and PhD in Sciences (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC, Spain). Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at UPC. UPC Artificial Intelligence Champion and Founder of the Research Centre on Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI-UPC). He has worked on theoretical aspects on kernel machines, reinforcement learning, computer vision and robotics as well as applications on recommender systems, cognitive social robots and assistive technologies. He has authored books in machine learning and robots, and published more than 325 papers in international and national journals and conferences (h-index 37) . He has led and participated in more than 45 R&D competitive projects, 18 of them funded by the European Commission.

Experience

  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (18 yrs 10 mos)
    • Full Professor
      Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

    • Research Leader
      2008 - Present · 18 yrs 6 mos

    • Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, Director
      Oct 2017 - Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • ACIA (Catalan Association for AI) President at ACIA
    Oct 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Principal Researcher IDEAI-UPC Team at AI4EU - Europe’s AI-on-Demand Platform
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Associated researcher at ESADE
    1999 - 2012 · 13 yrs

  • Visiting Professor at Università degli Studi di Genova
    Feb 2006 - Jul 2006 · 6 mos

    Kernel Methods for Interval Data