José Miguel Leiva Murillo

Jose Leiva is a member of the Big Data team at BBVA Research. He previously worked as a Senior Expert Data Scientist at BBVA Client Solutions – Advanced Analytics, where he applied data science to a variety of problems including pricing, digital marketing or asset management. He got his PhD from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and held a postdoc position at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligence Systems in Tübingen, Germany. He has co-authored many journal and conference papers on the application of machine learning techniques to relevant problems such as the classification of satellite images, decoding of EEG signals for brain-computer interfaces or mental health, among others.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Senior Data Scientist, BBVA, 2018 – Present

• Senior Data Scientist, ETS Asset Management Factory, 2017 – 2018

• Visiting Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2009 – 2016

• Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute on Biological Cybernetics, 2008 – 2009

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• External Profesor at Executive Master on Big Data Science, Universidad de Navarra. Courses on Data Visualization and Machine Learning, 2020 – Present

• Visiting Professor at UC3M. BS on Biomedical Engineering and BS on Multimedia Engineering. Courses on Linear Systems, Communication Theory and Digital Image Processing, 2009 – 2016

• Graduate Courses at UC3M: Master on Telecom Engineering and MS on Multimedia. Courses on Advanced Signal Processing and Advanced Data Processing, 2009 – 2016