from September 2015 to present day

At the Department of Computer Science of the University of A Coruña

Worked on my PhD thesis under the support of a FPU fellowship, the most competitive grant from the Spanish Government that funds the development of a PhD thesis during four years. During this period, I was also a Lab Instructor for several BSc and MSc courses: Information Retrieval, Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web, Operating Systems, Software Developer Tools, and Software Methodologies.

from May 2018 to August 2018

At Google's Meeting Room Intelligence team in Munich, Germany

During this software engineering internship, I worked with the Meeting Room Intelligence team developing solutions to improve Google's meeting technologies.

from April 2017 to June 2017

At the IR Group at the UAM in Madrid, Spain

3-month research stay funded by the Spanish Government at the Information Retrieval Group (UAM) under the supervision of Pablo Castells. I studied the applicability of information retrieval evaluation metrics to recommendation.

from April 2016 to June 2016

At the HPC Lab from ISTI-CNR in Pisa, Italy

3-month research stay funded by the Spanish Government at the High Performance Computing Lab (ISTI-CNR) under the supervision of Raffaele Perego. I worked on novel recommendation tasks and on the adaptation of learning to rank techniques to recommendation.

from April 2014 to April 2015

At the Information Retrieval Lab of the University of A Coruña

Hired by the IRLab to work on distributed recommender systems for big data environments using MapReduce and NoSQL technologies. I also focused on studying and improving accuracy, diversity and novelty of different approaches to recommendation.

from November 2013 to July 2014

At the Department of Computer Science of the University of A Coruña

Competitive grant from the Spanish Government for outstanding students that are interested in pursuing an academic career in the last year of their degrees.

Developed a distributed recommendation platform with several collaborative filtering algorithms using Hadoop and Cassandra, Django, Lucene, Memcached and Varnish.

from November 2014 to May 2019

At the University of A Coruña (Spain)

PhD thesis: Information Retrieval Models for Recommender Systems.

Advisors: Álvaro Barreiro and Javier Parapar.

Grade: Sobresaliente cum laude (highest grade).

Extraordinary PhD Award

Distinction given by the University of A Coruña to the best PhD theses defended at this university.

SCIE-BBVA Award

Won the Young Researcher Modality of the Research Awards given by the Spanish Computer Science Society and the BBVA Foundation in 2020: press note.

from October 2009 to July 2014

At the University of A Coruña (Spain)

Grade: 9.32/10 (with honours)

Final project: Distributed Platform For Movie Recommendation

A distributed recommender platform capable of making personalised recommendations using collaborative filtering techniques in a big data environment.

Grade: 10/10 (with honours)

Outstanding Graduate Award, University of A Coruña

Valedictorian distinction given by the University of A Coruña to the students, one for each degree, with the best marks among all the graduates that finished their studies in 2014 at the University of A Coruña.

Outstanding Graduate Award, Xunta de Galicia

Valedictorian distinction given by the Reginal Government of Galicia to the students, one for each degree, with the best marks among all the graduates that finished their studies in 2014 in the Galicia region.

National Outstanding Graduate Award, Ministerio de Educación

Distinction was given by the Spanish Ministry of Education to those students with the best marks among all the graduates that finished their studies in 2014 in Spain.