Data Science Community

Directors

Director
	Omiros Papaspiliopoulos ICREA-UPF and BGSE Computational Statistics, Machine Learning, Statistical Modelling, Stochastic Processes
Area Directors
	David Rossell UPF and BGSE Applied Statistics, High-dimensional Statistics, Experimental Design, Bioinformatics, Bayesian Statistics
	Alexandros Karatzoglou Senior Researcher, Google Research Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Recommender Systems
	Stephen E. Hansen Associate Professor of Economics, Imperial College Business School Organizational Economics, Monetary Policy, Machine Learning
	Gaston Besanson Data Science Manager, Accenture Applied Intelligence Health Analytics, Blockchain, Internet of Things
	Joan Verdú Head of Consulting and Knowledge Transfer Barcelona GSE Data Science Center

Members and collaborators

Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors

	Elisa Alòs UPF and BGSE Mathematical Finance, Malliavin Calculus, Fractional Brownian Motion
	Jose Apesteguia ICREA-UPF and BGSE Decision Making, Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
	Christian Brownlees UPF and BGSE Time Series, Network Analysis
	Christian Fons-Rosen UPF and BGSE Applied Microeconomics, Innovation, Political Economy, Corporate Finance
	José García-Montalvo UPF and BGSE Applied Economics, Banking, Property Markets, Institutions
	Michael Greenacre UPF and BGSE Applied Statistics, Multivariate Analysis, Correspondence Analysis
	Gábor Lugosi ICREA-UPF and BGSE Theory of Machine Learning, Combinatorial Statistics, Online Learning and Prediction, Random Graphs and Structures, Concentration Inequalities
	Christian Michel UPF and BGSE Empirical Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics, Organizational Economics, Antitrust Economics
	Hannes Mueller IAE-CSIC and BGSE Political Economy, Development Economics, Conflict Studies
	Eulàlia Nualart UPF and BGSE Stochastic Analysis, Malliavin Calculus and applications to Finance
	Albert Satorra UPF and BGSE Multivariate Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Small Area Estimation, Applied Statistics
	Frederic Udina UPF and BGSE Applied statistics, Non-parametric Curve Estimation, Computational Statistics and Probabilities, Public and official statistics
	Piotr Zwiernik UPF and BGSE Graphical Models, Latent Tree Models, Algebraic Statistics, Combinatorics

Collaborators from academia and industry

	Pau Agulló Managing Director, Kernel Analytics
	Majid Al-Sadoon Associate Professor in Economics, Durham University
	Ioannis Arapakis Research Scientist, Telefónica Research
	Argimiro Arratia Professor of Computer Science, UPC
	Guglielmo Bartolozzi Data Scientist, Kernel Analytics
	Matthew Eric Bassett Executive Director, Gower Street Analytics
	Sílvia Majó-Vázquez Post-doctoral Researcher, Reuters Institute (University of Oxford)
	Joan de Martí Adjunct Professor of Economics, UPF
	Ilias Leontiadis Research Associate, Telefónica Research
	Ioannis Kosmidis Senior Lecturer, UCL
	Mihalis Markakis Assistant Professor of Production, Technology and Operations Management, IESE
	Gergely Neu Post-doctoral Researcher, UPF
	Marc Noy Professor of Applied Mathematics, UPC
	Jordi Quoidbach Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, ESADE
	Carlos Segura Researcher, Telefónica Research
	Hrvoje Stojic Visiting Researcher, UCL
	Tim Stumpf-Fetizon Data Scientist, Telefónica Innovation

External Communications

Nandan Rao
Barcelona GSE Master's in Data Science '17

 

Post-doctoral researchers

	Jack Jewson PhD, University of Warwick
	Ciara Pike-Burke PhD, Lancaster University
	Nanwei Wang PhD, York University

Visitors

Visitors Calendar

Liz Schroeder

Oregon State University

Terms 1-2 within academic year 2019-20

Past visitors

Visitors 2018-19

Jack Carter	University of Warwick	April-May 2019
Sílvia Majó	Oxford Reuters Institute for Investigative Journalism	May 2019
Jim Smith	University of Warwick	May 2019
Sascha Timme	TU Berlin	May 2019
Yuhao Wang	MIT	May 2019
Carlos Carvalho	University of Texas at Austin	June 2019
Steffen Lauritzen	University of Copenhagen, Denmark	January 2019
Andreas Maurer		November 2018
Shahar Mendelson	Technion, Israel	January 2019

Visitors 2017-18

Luc Devroye	McGill University, Canada	September 2017
Laszlo Gyorfi	Technical University of Budapest, Hungary	September 2017
Shahar Mendelson	Technion, Israel	September 2017
Abbas Mehrabian	McGill University, Canada	July 2018
Andreas Maurer		December 2017
Nikita Zhivotovskiy	Skoltech, Russia	September 2017

Visitors 2016-17

Bernd Funovits	University of Helsinki, Finland	August 2017
Alejandra Avalos Pacheco	OxWaSP, UK	June 2017
Divikar Kumar	OxWaSP, UK	June 2017
Kayvan Sadeghi	University of Cambridge, UK	March 2017
Thorsten Rheinlander	Vienna Institute of Technology, Austria	February 2017
Dalila Ribaudo	Pavia/Italy	January 2017
Rui Castro	TU Eindhoven/Netherlands	January 2017
Shahar Mendelson	Technion, Israel/ANU, Australia	January 2017
Steffen Lauritzen	University of Copenhagen, Denmark	January 2017
Caroline Uhler	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA	January 2017
Varun Jog	University of Wisconsin, USA	December 2016
Masaaki Fukasawa	Osaka University, Japan	September 2016

Previous years

Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi	Milan	April 2016
Shahar Mendelson	Technion and ANU	April 2016
Nicolas Chopin	ENSAE, France	March 2016
Thorsten Rheinlander	Vienna Institute of Technology, Austria	February 2016
Anna Ben-Hamou	University Paris-Diderot, France	January 2016
Steffen Lauritzen	University of Copenhagen, Denmark	January 2016
Caroline Uhler	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA	January 2016
Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira	IMPA, Brazil	December 2015 – January 2016
Neil Walton	University of Manchester, UK	November 2015
Ioannis Kosmidis	University College London, UK	November 2015
Tongliang Liu	University of Technology, Sydney, Australia	October 2015 – March 2016
Gareth Roberts	University of Warwick, UK	October 2015
Rasmus Waagepetersens	University of Copenhagen, Denmark	October 2015
Nicolas Chopin	CREST, France	March 2015
Remi Piatek	University of Copenhagen, Denmark	March 2015
Sergios Agapiou	Warwick University, UK	November 2014
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter	Vienna University, Austria	May 2015
Aleksandar Mijatović	Imperial College, UK	January 2014
Matteo Barigozzi	London School of Economics, UK	September 2013
Nicolas Chopin	CREST, France	May 2013
Sergios Agapiou	Warwick University, UK	March 2013
Flavio Gonçalves	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil	February 2013
Matteo Ruggiero	Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy	December 2012
Gergely Neu	Budapest University of Technology, Hungary	November 2012

PhD Students

• Jordi Llorens
• Julia Olkhovskaya
• Dmitrii Tikhonenko
• Miquel Torrens
• Vasiliki Velona

Visitor Program

The Center has a visitor program and provides mentoring to PhD students. An application indicating the purpose of the visit and desired length of stay should be sent to David Rossell.