Research assistant at EPFL & Founder of DB4ALL
Geneva Area, Switzerland
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- Founder of DB4ALL at DB4ALL
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- PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- Research Assistant at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- Project Manager at Anglatecnic
- Research Assistant at UPC
- Technical Support at Tot Micro
- Research Assistant at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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- VentureLab
- Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
- Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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David Portabella Clotet’s Summary
PhD
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I researched how to improve user confidence in decision support systems for electronic catalogs, e.g. how to assist in shopping, deciding where to go for holidays or deciding your vote in an election.
That is, how to make the users feel confident that they have found the right product in your catalog. It helps to achieve a higher purchase conversion rate.
Start-up
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After the PhD which I will finish in December 2006, we plan to start a company on the domain of Databases, Decision Support Systems and Information Extraction. Our aim is to promote the use of databases to end-users and small businesses. By databases we refer to the content (list of books, movies, restaurants, jobs...) rather than the software.
DB4ALL provides services for extracting data from websites into a structured form, in a time record and at very competitive fees.
Employment opportunities: Project-based contracts on the following domains:
* Databases
* Information Extraction & Machine learning
* Website implementation and design
* Generic projects using C/C++, Java and python
If you are interested in joining our team, please send your Resume and Motivation Letter to: david.portabella@gmail.com
Acronyms used in this page
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IT = Information technology.
EPFL = Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
EPFL = Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
UPC = Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona)
UPC = Universitat Politécnica de Cataluña
UPC = Technical University of Catalonia
UPC-ETSETB = Escola Tècnica Superior Enginyeria Telecomunicacions
UPC-ETSETB = Telecommunication Engineering
David Portabella Clotet’s Experience
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Founder of DB4ALL
DB4ALL
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)
DB4ALL is a Start-Up on the domain of Databases, Decision Support Systems and Information Extraction. Our aim is to promote the use of databases to end-users and small businesses. By databases we refer to the content (list of books, movies, restaurants, jobs...) rather than the software.
DB4ALL provides services for extracting data from websites into a structured form, in a time record and at very competitive fees.
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PhD in Artificial Intelligence
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
October 2003 — January 2007 (3 years 4 months)
PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Martin Rajman. I researched how to improve user confidence in decision support systems for electronic catalogs, e.g. how to assist in shopping, deciding where to go for holidays or deciding your vote in an election.
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Research Assistant
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
August 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 2 months)
Collaborated with IM2.MDM project (Interactive Multimodal Interface Management, Multimodal Dialogue Management) and INSPIRE (Infotainment management with speech interaction via remote-microphones and telephone interfaces).
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Project Manager
Anglatecnic
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — October 2000 (4 months)
Anglatecnic is a company in Barcelona funded by Enric Torres i Feixas, working on Professional Broadcasting and IT.
Supervised two Internet Projects:
-A system to watch the weather through Internet TV (Freedomland Italia)
-A system to view the weather in Wap Mobiles (Telefónica Espanya)
Some tools used: Java, XML/XSL, Apache web server, Ms SQL Server
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Research Assistant
UPC
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
February 1999 — September 1999 (8 months)
Collaborated to the SALA project under the supervision of Dr. Asunción Moreno. SALA is a Speech Data project across Latin America which aims to build a speech database for speech recognition.
Developed a Speech Labeling Tool based in Matlab for the TALP Research Center.
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Technical Support
Tot Micro
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
July 1994 — July 1999 (5 years 1 month)
Tot Micro is a company in Manresa (Barcelona) which specializes in computer networks and electronic industrial solutions.
I worked part time and summers as Technical Support. Installed local networks (Windows NT), C++ and Web instructor, and Software consultant. -
Research Assistant
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
August 1998 — October 1998 (3 months)
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia)
Worked on a research project about Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems under the supervision of Dr. Pedro Raúl Vizcaya Guarín.
David Portabella Clotet’s Education
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VentureLab
VentureChallenge: Entrepreneurship, Business plan, Financing, Marketing 2005 — 2005
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Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Postgraduate School, Computer Science, 2001 — 2002
- Activities and Societies:
- Courses: Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, Object Oriented Technologies, Automatic Speech Recognition, Advanced Digital Image Processing, Distributed Algorithms, Intelligent Agents. 4 Mini-projects. 1 Research project on "Large Scale Semantic Resources: using the EDR Electronic Dictionary" under the supervision of Dr. Martin Rajman.
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Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Diploma project, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, 2000 — 2001
7 months: Diploma project at the Logic Systems Laboratory (EPFL-LSL) working with Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms under the supervision of Pr. Eduardo Sanchez.
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
M.S. and B.S, Telecommunication Engineering, 1994 — 2000
Honours in Speech Recognition, Programming and Computer Arquitecture & Operating Systems.
- Activities and Societies:
- Some courses: Algorithms, Signal Processing, Economics, Law of Telecommunications, Mathematical Software, Programming, Communications Theory, Optic and Radio Communications, Data Transmission, Speech Recognition, Network architectures, Electronics, Cryptography, Physics Relativity, Neural Networks, Genetic algorithms,
Additional Information
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David Portabella Clotet’s Interests:
Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Human Interaction, Distributed Cognition Systems
David Portabella Clotet’s Groups:
Toastmasters, ACM
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UPC alumni
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