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--- working_groups:ait-member_s_short_bio [2026/07/03 07:29]
ysamper [Egor Tiavlovsky]
+++ working_groups:ait-member_s_short_bio [2026/10/13 12:38] (current)
mkchaou [Mayssa Kchaou]
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 ==== Amirpasha Mozaffari ====
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-==== Bruna Gràvalos ====
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-**Position:** Undergraduate Student \\
-**Interests:** Machine Learning, Climate Science \\
-**Contact:** [[bruna.gravalos@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruna-gr%C3%A0valos-1982aa386/|LinkedIn]] \\
-**ORCID:** \\
-**Joined BSC:** November 2025\\
-**Short Bio:**
-Bruna Gràvalos is an intern at the AI4ES group within the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is completing a double degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Barcelona.
-At BSC, she first joined the Models and Workflow team as part of the Summer HPC Internship program, and she is currently carrying out her end-of-degree thesis with the AI4ES team, specifically within the EXPECT project, under the supervision of Amanda Duarte.
-**Projects:** EXPECT
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 ==== David Mathas ====
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+==== Ernesto Olivier ====
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+**Position:** Senior Research Engineer\\
+**Interests**: Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)\\
+**Contact:** [[ernesto.olivier@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernesto-olivier/?locale=en/|LinkedIn]] \\
+**ORCID:** \\
+**Joined BSC:** July 2026\\
+**Short Bio:** With over 20 years of experience in multidisciplinary technical coordination, AI workflows, and processes leadership, Ernesto holds a Specialization in Telecommunications Management and a degree in Computer Engineering.
+Before joining BSC, he worked in several industries like Telecommunications, FinTech and Construction, coordinating cross-team AI/Data initiatives and leading operations and production standards adopted across product teams.
+His current focus is coordinating the Software strategy of the BSC AI Factory, bridging the AI experts team, earth science scientific experts, and external users, including SMEs, start-ups, and public entities, while leading documentation governance and catalogue management for the AI Factory's software package.
+**Projects:** [[https://www.bsc.es/ai-factory|BSC AI Factory]]
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 ==== Filippo Dainelli ====
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-**Position:** Recognised Researcher \\
+**Position:** Researcher \\
 **Interests**: Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Weather Modeling, Extreme Events \\
 **Contact:** [[filippo.dainelli@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/filippo-dainelli-35a1b0171/|LinkedIn]] \\
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 **Short Bio:** Mayssa Kchaou is a Research Engineer of the AIT within Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
-She holds a masters degree of software engineering from University of Arts and Multimedia (ISAMM), Tunisia, and has 3 years of experience in Natural Language Processing.
+She holds a masters degree of software engineering from University of Arts and Multimedia (ISAMM), Tunisia, and has experience in Natural Language Processing.
-Before joining BSC, She worked at icompass, a tunisian startup specialized in Natural Language Processing of under-represented languages and dialects (african ones). At BSC, she focuses on Large Language Models in Earth Sciences context.
+Before joining BSC, She worked in Natural Language Processing of under-represented languages and dialects (african ones). At BSC, she focuses on Large Language Models in Earth Sciences context.
-She contributes to several national and European projects, including mainly Destination Earth and studying the impact of different techniques on LLMs' performance enhancing.
+She contributes to several national and European projects, including Destination Earth, AI4Social+ and working on Large Language Models, AI Agents and Retrieval Augmented Generation.
-**Projects:** Destination Earth
+**Projects:** Destination Earth Phase 2, AI4Social+
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-==== Pol Brunet  ====
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-**Position:** Research Engineer\\
+==== Rodrigo Pereira ====
-**Interests:** Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Telecommunications\\
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-**Contact:** [[pol.brunet@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/pol-brunet-gil/| LinkedIn]]\\
+**Position:** Research Engineer\\
-**ORCID:** [[https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0826-8059|0009-0008-0826-8059]]\\
+**Interests:** AI, Optimization, Earth Sciences\\
-**Joined BSC:** March 2026\\
+**Contact:** [[rodrigo.pereira@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-sanches-pereira-guerra-990791124/|LinkedIn]] \\
+**ORCID:** [[https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5667-0752|0009-0009-5667-0752]] \\
+**Joined BSC:** February 2026\\
-**Short Bio:** Pol Brunet is a Research Engineer Intern at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He holds a Double Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Systems Engineering and Computer Engineering from UAB, and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering at UPC. Before joining BSC, he worked as a Research Assistant at UOC, focusing on antenna-based sensors and passive RFID systems. At BSC, he focuses on Machine Learning research and contributes to the Climate Emulators project.
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-**Projects:** Climate Emulators
+**Short Bio:** Rodrigo is a brazilian Chemical Engineer graduated in Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) with industrial experience at Michelin, where he advanced from Quality Technician to R&D Technician, developing strong expertise in root cause analysis, Statistical Process Control (SPC), process optimization, and project management. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Modelling for Science and Engineering at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), further strengthening his background in mathematical modeling and computational simulation.
+**Projects:**
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+==== Waqar Ali ====
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+**Position:** Researcher \\
+**Interests:** Pattern Recognition, Agentic AI, Medical Decision Support, Graph Representation Learning \\
+**Contact:** [[waqar.ali@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/waqar-ali-16ba6b318/|LinkedIn]]\\
+**ORCID:** [[https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2089-0429|0000-0003-2089-0429]]\\
+**Joined BSC:** July 2026
+**Short Bio:** Waqar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Prior to joining the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. At BSC, he explores AI approaches to advance the understanding of Earth sciences and climate change, with a particular focus on developing foundational models for Earth.
+**Projects:** [[https://www.elliot-ai.eu/|ELLIOT]]
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