Berta Biescas

Senior Data Scientist at Savana
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area, ES
Languages
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Spanish Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Catalan Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Italian Elementary proficiency

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Credentials

  • Pytorch for Deep Learning and Computer Vision
    Udemy
    Oct, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Advance Data Mining with Weka
    The University of Waikato
    Mar, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Fluidez de Duolingo en italiano: Básico (Estimado)
    Duolingo
    Feb, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • Fluidez de Duolingo en italiano: Principiante (Estimado)
    Duolingo
    Jan, 2016
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • Spain
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Data Scientist
      • Feb 2022 - Present

    • Spain
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Associate Professor
      • Mar 2019 - Feb 2022

      Professor of Physics Professor of Physics

    • Spain
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • ML Engineer and Data Scientist
      • Feb 2018 - Feb 2022

      * Responsible of the machine learning models development for text and image analysis and classification. Last implementations: • Deep learning applied to text: language models [GPT-2, AWD_LSTM, BERT, XLM-R] for transfer learning, text classification, automatic text generation [pytorch, transformers, fast.ai, hugging face]. • Deep learning applied to images: image classification from pre-trained models [googleNet, VGG16, LeNet] [torchvision, OpenCV, skimage, sklearn]. * In charged of the multi-language NLP analysis code of the product: POS tagging, feature extraction, topic classification [nltk, stanfordnlp, textblob,polyglot, pandas, word embeddings]. * Responsible for AI explainability and bias control in models. Show less

    • Spain
    • Government Administration
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Teacher of Mathematics
      • Jan 2017 - Feb 2018

      * Teacher of Mathematics at a public secondary school. * Teacher of Mathematics at a public secondary school.

    • Italy
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Marie Curie Researcher - FP7-PEOPLE-2012-COFUND-600407
      • Dec 2014 - Nov 2016

      * Active underwater acoustics. * Observational physical oceanography. * Ocean data acquisition. * Neural Networks applied to recover oceanic salinity from temperature. * Mathematical inversion methods. * Mathematical modelling. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Modelling in Marine technology: optimization of the multichannel seismic reflection experiment and instruments for physical oceanography. * Areas of research: Adriatic Sea, Alboran Sea, Mediterranean Sea, South Atlantic Ocean (Brazilian coast) and South China Sea. Show less

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Sep 2014 - Nov 2014

      * Marine technology development. * Acoustic data propagation modeller. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Acoustic system design for marine research, methodological development to extract temperature/salinity/sound speed profiles from acoustic data; * Requirements definition for the preferred sound generation hardware for marine exploration. * Private industry collaboration: Geospectrum Technologies Inc. * Marine technology development. * Acoustic data propagation modeller. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Acoustic system design for marine research, methodological development to extract temperature/salinity/sound speed profiles from acoustic data; * Requirements definition for the preferred sound generation hardware for marine exploration. * Private industry collaboration: Geospectrum Technologies Inc.

    • Research
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Marie Curie Researcher FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF-271936 - Incoming phase
      • Jul 2013 - Jul 2014

      * Active underwater acoustics. * Observational physical oceanography. * Full waveform inversion methods. * Neural networks applied to physical oceanography. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Ocean acoustic data acquisition and management. * Optimization of the multichannel seismic reflection experiment and instruments (acoustic source and hydrophones) for physical oceanography exploration. * Areas of research: North Atlantic Ocean. * Active underwater acoustics. * Observational physical oceanography. * Full waveform inversion methods. * Neural networks applied to physical oceanography. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Ocean acoustic data acquisition and management. * Optimization of the multichannel seismic reflection experiment and instruments (acoustic source and hydrophones) for physical oceanography exploration. * Areas of research: North Atlantic Ocean.

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Marie Curie Researcher FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF-271936 - Outgoing phase
      • Jul 2011 - Jul 2013

      * Active underwater acoustics. * Observational physical oceanography. * Analysis and detection of thermohaline mesoscale, submesoscale and fine-scale structures from acoustic reflectivity in the ocean (currents, eddies, front, filaments, staircase layers,etc). * Deconvolutional inversion methods . * Neural networks. * Mathematical modelling. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Areas of research: North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Alaska. * Active underwater acoustics. * Observational physical oceanography. * Analysis and detection of thermohaline mesoscale, submesoscale and fine-scale structures from acoustic reflectivity in the ocean (currents, eddies, front, filaments, staircase layers,etc). * Deconvolutional inversion methods . * Neural networks. * Mathematical modelling. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Areas of research: North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Alaska.

    • Research
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Researcher in Marine Science
      • Feb 2006 - Jul 2011

      * Active underwater acoustics. * Observational physical oceanography. * Ocean data acquisition and management. * Processing and interpretation of multichannel seismic reflection data of legacy data sets. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Mathematical modelling of acoustic propagation in the ocean. * Areas of research: North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. * Active underwater acoustics. * Observational physical oceanography. * Ocean data acquisition and management. * Processing and interpretation of multichannel seismic reflection data of legacy data sets. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Mathematical modelling of acoustic propagation in the ocean. * Areas of research: North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

    • Researcher in Seismology
      • Oct 2003 - Sep 2005

      * Seismic attenuation. * Seismic data acquisition and management. * Seismic hazard. * Coda waves. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Seismological networks. * Area of research: Eastern Cuba. * Seismic attenuation. * Seismic data acquisition and management. * Seismic hazard. * Coda waves. * Signal processing. * Time series analysis. * Seismological networks. * Area of research: Eastern Cuba.

    • Spain
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • PHD Candidate
      • Sep 1999 - Jul 2003

      Study and detection of snow avalanches using seismic signal; acquisition, processing and analysis of seismic signals; monitoring of snow avalanches. Area of research: Valle de la Sionne (Switzerland) and Vall de Nuria (Spain). Study and detection of snow avalanches using seismic signal; acquisition, processing and analysis of seismic signals; monitoring of snow avalanches. Area of research: Valle de la Sionne (Switzerland) and Vall de Nuria (Spain).

    • Spain
    • Information Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Undergraduate Student
      • Sep 1998 - Aug 1999

      Daily control and classification of earthquakes signals detected by the Catalan seismological network; local earthquakes, teleseisms; location of epicentres. Daily control and classification of earthquakes signals detected by the Catalan seismological network; local earthquakes, teleseisms; location of epicentres.

Education

  • Universitat de Barcelona
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
    1999 - 2003
  • Universitat de Barcelona
    Bachelor’s Degree, Physics
    1993 - 1999

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