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General Information

Full Name David Pujol Perich
Date of Birth 7th January 1998
Languages English, Catalan, Spanish, German

Education

  • 2022 - 2025
    PhD
    University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2021 - 2022
    Masters degree
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Carried out the last year of the masters degree.
    • Wrote the master thesis at "LIONS" lab under the supervision of Prof. Volkan Cevher.
  • 2020 - 2022
    Masters degree
    Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
    • Master degree in research and innovation in informatics, with a focus on advanced computing.
  • 2019 - 2020
    Bachelors degree
    Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
    • Carried out an academic stay during 6 months.
  • 2016 - 2020
    Bachelors degree
    Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
    • Bachelors degree in Computer Science.

Experience

  • 2021 - 2022
    Machine Learning Research Assistant
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Worked on devising efficient attention mechanisms
  • 2020 - 2021
    Machine Learning Researcher
    Barcelona Neural Networking Center, Barcelona, Spain
    • Developed a novel framework for fast prototyping of Graph Neural Networks, called IGNNITION, which became a European Project (https://ignnition.net).
    • Explored the interpretability of GNNs.
    • Proposed a novel GNN-based Intrusion Detection System

Honors and Awards

  • 2021
    • 3rd prize in the Student Research Competition organized by SIGCOMM '21 (sponsored by Microsoft).
  • 2020
    • Awarded as the second-best Bachelor Thesis of my faculty.
  • 2020 - 2021
    • Recepient of the scholarship "Beca d'iniciació a la recerca".
  • 2019
    • 1st prize in RareHacks with a chatbot to help patients with pediatric cancer.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Climbing, Reading, Cinema.