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David Lopez-Paz
My research focuses on the development of statistical methods able to unsupervisedly discover intelligence from
high-dimensional data. Contact me at [email protected].
Education
2011-
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Max-Planck-Institute
Cambridge
T¨
ubingen
with Z. Ghahramani
with B. Sch¨olkopf
2007-11
Computer Science
GPA: 3.81/4, Rank: 1st
Universidad Aut´onoma
Madrid
with A. Su´arez
Career
2014
2014
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Consultant
Visiting Student
Research Intern
Research Intern
Research Intern
Research Intern
Developer
RedBull Formula 1
UC Berkeley
Google Research
European Space Agency
CSIC-IIIA
Universidad Aut´
onoma
IBM Unix Lab
Milton Keynes
Berkeley
Mountain View
Madrid
Barcelona
Madrid
Madrid
with
with
with
with
with
with
with
Marco Adurno
Ben Recht
Ciprian Chelba
Nicolas Altobelli
Ramon L. Mantaras
Alberto Su´arez
Luis S´anchez
Publications
11. A learning theory of causation
Lopez-Paz D., Muandet K., Janzing D., Sch¨olkopf B.
In preparation.
10. Random functions for dependence and component analysis
Lopez-Paz D., Sra S., Hennig P., Smola A. J., Ghahramani G., Sch¨olkopf B.
In preparation.
9. Copula methods for hierarchical dependence modeling
Lopez-Paz D., Hernandez-Lobato J. M., Ghahramani Z., Sch¨olkopf B.
Submitted, 2014.
8. Non-linear causal inference using Gaussianity measures
Hern´
andez-Lobato D., Morales-Mombiela P., Lopez-Paz D., Su´arez S.
Submitted, 2014.
7. The randomized causation coefficient
Lopez-Paz D., Muandet M., Recht B.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2015.
6. Two numerical models to reproduce Saturn rings temperature as measured by Cassini
Altobelli, N., Lopez-Paz D., Pilorz S., Spilker L. J. et al.
Icarus, 2014
5. Randomized nonlinear component analysis
Lopez-Paz D., Sra S., Smola A. J., Ghahramani Z., Sch¨olkopf B.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2014 (video)
4. The randomized dependence coefficient
Lopez-Paz D., Hennig P., Sch¨
olkopf B.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2013 (video)
3. Gaussian process vine copulas for multivariate dependence
Lopez-Paz D., Hernandez-Lobato J. M., Ghahramani Z.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2013 (video)
2. Semi-supervised domain adaptation with non-parametric copulas
Lopez-Paz D., Hernandez-Lobato J. M., Sch¨olkopf B.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (video)
1. Global warfare with Hookle: a worldwide vulnerability analysis
Lopez-Paz D., Pe˜
nalba J.
RootedCON, 2011 (video)
Teaching
2013,14,15
Graphical Models in Computer Vision (TA)
Univ. of T¨
ubingen
with Peter Gehler
Talks
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
A Learning Theory of Causation
Lecture Introduction to Random Matrices
Random Functions for Dependence and Comp. Analysis
The Randomized Dependence Coefficient
Lecture Random Projections (video)
Gaussian Process Conditional Copulas
Thermal Modeling Saturn Rings with Machine Learning
Copulas for Machine Learning
Worldwide Server Vulnerability Analysis
Astronomy Meets Machine Learning
Binary Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Analysis
ETH Z¨
urich, MPI-IS
University of Cambridge
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Berkeley, MSKCC, MIT, Harvard
University of Cambridge
Technische Universit¨at M¨
unchen
SETI Institute
Max Planck Institute
National Intelligence Centre
European Space Agency
Universidad Aut´onoma de Madrid
Awards
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2007
ChaLearn Fast Causation Coefficient Challenge
Fundaci´
on “la Caixa” Doctoral Scholarship
NIPS Travel Award, Lake Tahoe, USA
ICML Travel Award, Atlanta, USA
NIPS Travel Award, Lake Tahoe, USA
Fundaci´
on “Caja Madrid” Doctoral Scholarship (two years)
Universidad Aut´
onoma de Madrid “Profesor Javier Martinez” Award
RootedCON CTF 1st place, Madrid, Spain
Campus Party Europe CTF 1st place, Madrid, Spain
Forensic and Security Sciences Institute travel scholarship
DEFCON 18 CTF Final 7th place, Las Vegas, USA
Community of Madrid Academic Excellence Award (three years)
Organizing
2014
2013
2013
2008
First MSR-MLG Joint Meeting
NIPS Workshop on Randomized Methods
International Machine Learning Summer School
International Mathematical Olympiad
Cambridge, UK
Lake Tahoe, USA
T¨
ubingen, Germany
Madrid, Spain
Reviewing
2014-15
2013-15
2014
2013
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Bioinformatics
IEEE TKDE, IEEE TPAMI
Volunteering
20142013
2010
2008-
Cambridge Volunteers in Nepal (on-site, Kathmandu)
Unicef, Red-Cross Spain
Hackers for Charity
ActionAid Nepal
Languages
Native Spanish speaker. Fluent in English (TOEFL iBT: 106).
Computer Skills
C
R
SQL
SSTables
C++
Matlab
PHP
Reverse Engineering
Python
LATEX
OpenMP
Cryptography
Lisp
JS
Oracle Grid
Google Borg
Bash
HTML
MapReduce
ASM/x86
CSS
ProtocolBuffers

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