David Portabella Clotet

Current

Founder of DB4ALL at DB4ALL

Past

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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Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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David Portabella Clotet’s Summary

DB4ALL is a Start-Up at the Database Laboratory at EPFL funded by Innogrant. We are experts on decision support systems and database collection, integration and cleaning.

DB4ALL develops innovative solutions for extracting structured information from websites (e.g. market research, catalog of products from your providers or competitors...), as well as for integrating web data and applications into your ERP system such as OpenERP and SAP.

Our objective is to promote the use of datasets to companies for making more optimal and quicker decisions. By datasets we refer to the content (list of books, movies, restaurants, jobs, biochemical products, zip codes...).

Get our latest news: http://db4all.com/

DAvid Portabella
http://db4all.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

Founder of DB4ALL

DB4ALL

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years)

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.

http://www.db4all.com/
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.

I also supervised student projects and I was teaching assistant in the Natural Language Processing course and the Java programming course.
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).

Also teaching assistant in a Java programming course.
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

Then I was given a grant and I moved to Switzerland.
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.
Some tools used: Apache, PHP3, mySQL and JDK 1.2.2.
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

VentureLab

VentureChallenge: Entrepreneurship, Business plan, Financing, Marketing 2005 — 2005
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.
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.
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,

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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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