PhD. Candidate in Informatics and Computing

Arnau Rovira Sugranes

**** **** ****** ***, *********, AZ 86001

***********@***.*** www.linkedin.com/in/arnau-rovira/ 928-***-**** EXPERIENCE

GRADUATE RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANT

Northern Arizona University - Flagstaff, AZ, USA January 2017 - Present

{ Researching in machine learning and data mining techniques for wireless communications, including routing and graph theory for UAVs networks (FANETs). The end goal is to design a predictive communication platform that adapts to dynamic conditions and revolutionizes current methods to use UAVs in many applications to benefit society and the global economy.

{ Teaching assistant for EE364 (Fundamentals of Electromagnetics), EE476C (Project Design Procedures) and EE486C (Cap- stone Design).

ENGINEERING INTERN - MACHINE LEARNING SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING Poba Medical - Flagstaff, AZ, USA May 2020 - August 2020

{ Worked with the engineering team to program and design electronic and software systems for inspection machines to analyze medical balloons and catheters with the goal to improve and save lives.

{ Created an image database and built a Deep Learning model that is capable of identifying and measuring defects on medical balloons and catheters with an accuracy of 97.3% using Tensorflow, Pytorch and Keras. SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT TEAM

Lear Corporation - Valls, Spain July 2016 – January 2017

{ Worked in the Requirements Management team using the V-model development during the initial analysis process to satisfy the requirements from different automotive leader groups.

{ Produced a software code to build a methodology that ensures requirements are complete in the design process. ELECTRICAL ASSISTANT

Basell Poliolefinas Ibérica, S.L. - Reus, Spain July-Sept 2014-2015

{ Worked as an assistant in the development of electrical projects to enhance the power plant for one of the world’s largest producer of polypropylene and advanced polyolefins products.

{ Worked in the process of a modern world scale PP production site from project design to production. EDUCATION

Northern Arizona University - Flagstaff, AZ, USA Expected Graduation: August 2021 PhD. Candidate in Informatics and Computing

Northern Arizona University - Flagstaff, AZ, USA Jan 2017 - May 2019 M.S. in Informatics

Rovira i Virgili University - Tarragona, Spain Sept 2012 – May 2016 Bachelor Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering PROJECTS

{ Communication: predictive routing protocols for UAV networks Designed various routing protocols with reinforcement learning that outperform other state-of-art routing algorithms with up to 25% lower end-to-end delay, 82% lower energy consumption and up to 264% higher packet delivery ratio.

{ Computer Vision: face detection and identification using OpenCV.

{ Machine Learning: breast cancer prediction with 99.1% accuracy using an ensemble with K-means, logistic regression, LDA, QDA, loess, KNN and random forest.

{ Natural Language Processing: sentiment analysis, business meeting summary, and predict messages on social media. SKILLS

{ Software skills: Python, R, MATLAB, C, C++, SQL, Prolog, VHDL, assembly, DXL

{ ML libraries: Tensorflow, Pytorch, Keras, Numpy, Pandas, SciKit Learn, OpenCV, Caret, Rpart

{ IEEE conference paper reviewer / Symposium moderator AWARDS / CERTIFICATES

{ Peer-reviewed publications on Machine-Learning-based solutions for Internet of Things (available if needed)

{ Data Science: Machine Learning online course at HarvardX

{ Obtained certification in Machine Learning and AI courses including Deep Learning, Data Mining, SQL and AWS

{ IEEE student member / ComSoc student member with NSF student travel grant to IEEE SECON 2018

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