Oriol Pujol
oriol_pujol@ub.edu
Short Bio
Oriol Pujol Vila is tenured associate professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the department of Matemàtiques i Informàtica at Universitat de Barcelona. He obtained the degree in Telecomunications Engineering in 1998 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). The same year, he joined the Computer Vision Center and the Computer Science Department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). In 2004 he received the Ph.D. in Computer Science at the UAB with a work in deformable models, fusion of supervised and unsupervised learning and intravascular ultrasound medical image analysis. In 2005 he joined the Dept. of Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) where he became tenured associate professor. He has published more than one hundred and fifty articles in machine learning, computer vision, and their applications. He has more than twenty years in knowledge transference in data analysis projects is fields such as finance, health, marketing, wearable sensors, among others. He served as director of Computer Science undergraduate studies, director of the postgraduate courses on Data Science and Big Data, and director of the official master's program in Fundamental Principles of Data Science. He served as vice-president for Digital Transformation at the University of Barcelona from 2016 to 2021. He is currently serving as the Dean of the Facultat de Matemàtiques i Informàtica at Universitat de Barcelona.
Research
My research is focused on the design of Machine Learning algorithms. My long-term research is focused on understanding pattern formation and prediction as a fundational component of weak emergence; understanding human decision making and human inductive bias for the creation of appropriate machine learning algorithms; and building trust in a human-centric and ethical development and deployment of AI.
Teaching
I teach "Machine Learning" at the Fundamental Principles of Data Science master's program and "Introduction to Machine Learning" at the Complex System's master program.
Management
I am currently the Dean of the Facultat de Matemàtiques i Informàtica at Universitat de Barcelona.
Selected publications
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Copying machine learning classifiers (2020)
I Unceta, J Nin, O Pujol. IEEE Access. Vol 8. -
Learning to count with deep object features (2015)
S Seguí, O Pujol, J Vitria. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015 Workshops.