Samir Kanaan

Samir Kanaan

Hi! My name is Samir Kanaan-Izquierdo. Welcome to my page. Here’s a brief summary of my career and interests, along with the description of my main teaching areas. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

I am with the Department of Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). I am a researcher at the B2SLab (Bioinformatics and Biomedical Signals Laboratory).

I have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and a BS degree on Computer Science.

Research areas:

-Machine learning (ML) techniques in general, specially clustering and dimensionality reduction algorithms
-ML applications to bioinformatics
-ML applications to videogames
-Deep learning
-Multi* (multiview, multifeature, multilabel) problems and techniques

Teaching:

I am a full-time lecturer at the Escola d’Enginyeria Barcelona Est (EEBE, http://eebe.upc.edu/), where I teach the following courses:

-Computer Programming (with Python)
-Mobile Device Application Development (with QML + JavaScript + Python)
-Artificial Intelligence Applications for Engineering (with Python)

I also teach at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC, http://www.uoc.edu/). I am collaborator at both the Computer Engineering Master and at the Design and Development of Video Games Master, on the following courses:

-Advanced artificial intelligence
-Artificial intelligence applied to video games

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