José Sotelo

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Education

  • PhD. in Computer Science
    Université de Montréal
    2017 -
    Montreal, Canada
  • MSc. in Computer Science
    Université de Montréal
    2014 - 2017
    Montreal, Canada
  • BSc. in Applied Mathematics
    Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
    2008 - 2012
    Mexico City, Mexico

Experience

  • Deep Learning Research
    MILA, Université de Montréal
    2014 -
    Montreal, Canada
  • Research Assistant and Economic Analyst
    Banco de México
    2012-2014
    Mexico City, Mexico

Internships

  • Data Science for Social Good Fellow
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Summer 2014
    Atlanta, USA
  • Research Assistant
    Aalto Science Institute
    Summer 2012
    Espoo, Finland

Teaching Assistant

  • Economics IV
    Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
    2011
    Mexico City, Mexico
  • Applied Mathematics Student Faculty
    Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
    2011
    Mexico City, Mexico

Skills

Informatic

  • Deep Learning : Theano, Blocks
  • Statistical Analysis : R
  • Programming : Python

Languages

  • Spanish Native
  • English Fluent
  • French Intermediate
  • German Basic

Interests

Academic

  • Deep Learning : RNN, NTM
  • Statistics : Bayesian Statistics
  • Numerical Analysis : Numerical Optimization

Non Academic

  • Music : Piano
  • Sports : Snowboarding, Swimming, Water polo
  • Board Games : Hanabi, Avalon, Sheriff of Nottingham

Publications

Refereed

2017 SampleRNN: An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio Generation Model ICLR, 2017
2017 A Robust Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Method for Deep Learning IJCNN, 2017

Popularization

2014 Should you ask her out? Gaceta de Economía
2010 Jugando dominó Laberintos e Infinitos
2009 Un Número Poco Ordinario Laberintos e Infinitos

Projects

Deep Learning

2015 Speech synthesis using RNNs
2015 Handwriting synthesis using RNNs
2015 Language modeling using RNNs
2015 Dogs vs Cats: Computer Vision

Data Science

2014 Cycle Atlanta
Dashboard
2014 Tourism in Mexico
Dashboard

Programming

2014 World vocoder wrapper
2012 AI for Pacman

Statistics

2014 Should you ask her out?
Paper
2012 Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
BSc. Thesis

Economics

2013 DSGE Model for Mexican Economy

Key Courses

2015 Deep Learning Université de Montreal
2015 Machine Learning for Computer Vision Université de Montreal
2014 Probabilistic Graphical Models Université de Montreal
2014 Introduction to Machine Learning Université de Montreal
2013 Artificial Intelligence BerkeleyX, edX
2012 Introduction to Statistical Learning ITAM