| Curriculum Vitae | [PDF] | (updated 13 March 2013) |
Pedro A. Ortega is a researcher in the foundations of machine learning and cybernetics. He grew up in Zürich, Switzerland and then moved to Santiago, Chile, where he graduated in 2005 as a Computer Engineer from the University of Chile. In 2011, he obtained his PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Zoubin Ghahramani. Since then, he has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Engineering in Cambridge, at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics/Intelligent Systems and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He will be joining the GRASP Robotics Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
2006-2011: PhD in Engineering, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
1998-2005: Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidad de Chile
1995-1997: Secondary, Liceo Experimental Manuel de Salas, Santiago, Chile
1990-1994: Secondary, Gymnasium Typus B&C, Kantonsschule Oerlikon, Zürich, Switzerland
1984-1990: Primary, Schulhaus Probstei, Zürich, Switzerland
Postdoctoral Visitor, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 2013.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 2011-2013.
Research Associate, Engineering Design Centre and Signal Processing Group, Univ. of Cambridge, 2010-2011.
Lecturer, Information Theory and Neural Networks, Univ. of Chile, 2005.
T.A., Mechanics, Univ. of Chile, 2000-2001, 2003.
T.A., Computing I, Univ. of Chile, 2000.
T.A., Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Chile, 2003, 04.
T.A., Theory of Neural Networks, Univ. of Chile, 2003.
T.A., Evolutionary Computation, Univ. of Chile, 2004.
2006: Yahoo! Search Engine Marketing, DMX Group, USA
2006: Embedded System Design, Olimex, Chile
2003-2005: Datamining for customer segmentation, fraud detection and forecasting, Chile
-2005: Website development
2006-2010 : Graduate Studies Scholarship, Beca Presidente de la República, Government of Chile
1998-2002: Honor roll student (top 5%), School of Engineering, University of Chile
1996: Scholarship, Liceo Manuel de Salas, Santiago, Chile
1996: Winner of the National Physics Olympics, Chile
1996: Winner of the Metropolitan Physics Olympics, Santiago, Chile
