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Personal introduction and project overview Ing. Rafael Tedin Alvarez rafaeltedin@gmail.com February 18th, 2013 Personal introduction Outline and project overview Ing. Rafael Tedin Alvarez rafaeltedin@ gmail.com 1 Introduction


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Outline

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Introduction

  • Rafael Tedin Alvarez, Spain
  • TALENT ER2 (WP5):
  • Development of signal processing software
  • Development of baseline software modules for future

adaptation in industrial applications

  • Fellow based at Atostek Oy, Tampere, Finland
  • Supervisor: Jarkko Niittylahti
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Before university

  • Born in Galicia, Spain
  • Moved to Zurich, Switzerland (age 11)
  • Secondary education: focused on mathematics and natural

sciences

  • Very rewarding experience
  • New culture
  • New languages: German, French, Italian, English
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University

  • Studies in Computer Science Engineering (Ingenier´

ıa Inform´ atica) at University of La Coruna, Spain

  • 5-years program, started in 2002
  • Focus on computer science and software engineering
  • Theoretical and practical courses on: algorithms, operating

systems, numerical computation, computation theory, compilers, artificial intelligence, computer networks, programming languages, computer architectures, analysis and design of software systems, project management, . . .

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University

  • Diploma in Advanced Studies (Computer Science) at

University of La Coruna, Spain

  • 2-years program, started in 2008
  • First part of the doctoral program in Computer Science
  • Theoretical and practical courses on: machine learning,

computational logic, artificial life and autonomous robotics, multi-agent systems, image processing techniques

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University

  • From 2010 on: second part of the doctoral program in

Computer Science at University of La Coruna, Spain

  • Focused on image processing and machine learning
  • Grant from the regional government of Galicia (Xunta de

Galicia)

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Work experience

  • Since 2008: research assistant and PhD. candidate at the

Integrated Group for Engineering Research (GII), University of La Coruna, Spain

  • Interdisciplinary research group: recently awarded for its

competitiveness and knowledge transfer

  • Master Thesis
  • Research areas: evolutionary computation, distributed

computing, machine learning and image processing

  • Industry related projects (maritime engineering sector and

husbandry)

  • Since 2011: teaching assistant at University of La Coruna,

Spain

  • Programming in C for undergraduate students
  • Since 2012: freelance software project with some friends
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Motivation and project

  • CERN
  • Interdisciplinary and international community
  • Experiments and projects stretching the limits of science
  • TALENT
  • Personal opportunities: moving to Finland! New language,

new people, new culture

  • Professional opportunities: huge project, professional

development

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Motivation and project

Project ER2

Development of signal processing software in the online-data acquisition, the control and readout of the front-end electronics and off-line data analysis; development of baseline software modules for future adaptation in industrial applications

  • Signal processing: new field for me
  • Research topic: application of parallelization techniques to

speed up calculations

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In my free time. . .

  • Free/open source software
  • Sports: football (you are not surprised, aren’t you?)
  • Chess
  • Photography
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Thank you! Rafael Tedin Alvarez rafaeltedin@gmail.com