Xavier Vilasis-Cardona
Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies, Universitat Ramon Llull
Xavier is Director for Doctoral Studies and full professor at the Engineering Department at la Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, with research interests in particle physics, high-energy physics, data science, data analysis, neural networks, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is Head of DS4DS (Data Science for the Digital Society), a research group focused on developing and applying data science techniques and studying their impact in the digital society. He is also a member of the Large Hadron Collider beauty collaboration (CERN), as well as member of the IEEE - Cellular Nonlinear Networks and Array Computing Technical Committee. Xavier has taught subjects in advanced math, probability, numerical analysis, calculus, physics, optical communications, neural networks, control theory, data analysis and advanced statistics. He has a Physics degree and a PhD in Physics from Universitat de Barcelona.