Industry Experience

  1. Director of Research

    ServiceNow Research, January 2023 – Present
    Head of the Fundamental AI Research group. Leading 20+ researchers and 30+ interns on multimodal learning, web agents, reasoning, and data analytics. Key projects include BrowserGym, WorkArena, BigDocs, and the Apriel open models.
  2. Research Manager / Research Lead

    ServiceNow Research, January 2021 – January 2023
    Led the Low Data Learning team following the Element AI acquisition. Directed 5 researchers and 15 interns on self-supervised, semi-supervised, and weakly-supervised learning.
  3. Research Scientist, then Research Team Lead

    Element AI, January 2018 – January 2021
    Research on segmentation, object counting, image generation, domain adaptation, and continual learning. Promoted to Team Lead in 2020; team transitioned to ServiceNow after acquisition.

Academic Experience

  1. Adjunct Professor

    Polytechnique Montréal, January 2025 – Present
    Research on Indigenous language translation, supervising doctoral students, and teaching activities.
  2. Associate Industry Member

    MILA, Quebec AI Institute, January 2025 – Present
    Affiliated with MILA through Polytechnique Montréal, contributing to collaborative research in multimodal learning and AI agents.
  3. Adjunct Professor

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, January 2017 – Present
    Instructor in the Computer Vision Master’s program, teaching graduate courses and supervising Master’s theses.
  4. Postdoctoral Researcher (Marie Curie Fellow)

    MILA / UAB, January 2015 – January 2017
    Deep learning for image generation and semantic segmentation under Prof. Aaron Courville and Prof. Antonio M. López. Awarded the Marie Curie European Fellowship.
  5. Postdoctoral Researcher (Juan de la Cierva Fellow)

    UAB / Computer Vision Center, September 2013 – January 2015
    Led the Elektra autonomous vehicle project and developed the SYNTHIA autonomous driving simulator. Partnerships with Tazzari and NVIDIA.

Education

  1. PhD in Computer Science

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 2010 – August 2013
    Domain Adaptation of Virtual and Real Worlds for Pedestrian Detection. Advisor: Prof. Antonio M. López. Recipient of four best thesis awards (IEEE ITS Society, AERFAI, UAB, PIONEER/CERCA).
  2. MSc in Computer Vision and AI

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 2009 – September 2010
  3. BSc in Computer Science

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 2006 – September 2009
  4. BSc in Software Engineering

    Universidade da Coruña, September 2002 – September 2006

Awards

  1. Best Paper Award

    CVPR Workshop, 2017
    The One Hundred Layers Tiramisu.
  2. Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship

    European Commission, 2015
  3. Best PhD Thesis Award (x4)

    IEEE ITS Society, AERFAI, UAB, PIONEER/CERCA, 2014
  4. Best Paper Award

    ECCV Workshop, 2014
    Real-time Pedestrian Detection in the GPU.
  5. Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Grant

    Spanish Ministry of Science, 2013
  6. Winner, Pedestrian Detection Challenge

    RMRC Challenge, 2013
  7. Second Place, Pedestrian Detection Challenge

    RMRC Challenge, 2011
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