Scholar
Xavier Giró-i-Nieto
Google Scholar ID: M3ZUEc8AAAAJ
Amazon Science Barcelona
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,410
H-index
36
i10-index
60
Publications
20
Co-authors
46
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Collaborated with Barcelona-based company Crisalix, and served as a member of the scientific advisory committee of Vilynx, which was acquired by Apple in 2020.
- - Member of the ELLIS Barcelona unit and the Computer Vision Foundation.
- - A founding organizer of the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium, and serves as area chair in computer vision conferences such as ICCV 2024 and CVPR 2025.
Research Experience
- - Until 2022, he was an associate professor at UPC, also a member of the Image Processing Group (GPI), Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC), and the Institute of Industrial Robotics (IRI UPC-CSIC).
- - Directed the Postgraduate on Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning at UPC School, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on deep learning at ESEIAAT and ETSETB schools.
- - Regularly collaborated with the Insight Center of Data Analytics at Dublin City University, and is a member of the Governance Committee of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning.
Education
- - Graduated from ETSETB (UPC) in 2000 with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering, completing his master's thesis on image compression at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels under Prof. Peter Schelkens.
- - After working for one year at Sony Brussels, returned to UPC to obtain a PhD in computer vision, supervised by Prof. Ferran Marqués and Prof. Shih-Fu Chang from Columbia University.
Background
- Research interests include computer vision, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. Formerly an associate professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, currently working with Amazon Science.
Miscellany
- Personal interests not mentioned.
