Samir Kanaan

Former researcher at B2SLab, UPC. Expertise in machine learning — particularly clustering and dimensionality reduction — with applications in bioinformatics and video games. Lecturer at EEBE (UPC) and UOC.
Keywords

machine learning, bioinformatics, dimensionality reduction, deep learning, UPC, clustering

Bio

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 was with the Department of Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). I am a former 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 former full-time lecturer at the Escola d’Enginyeria Barcelona Est (EEBE, http://eebe.upc.edu/), where I taught 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

Publications in journals

A possibly incomplete and malformatted list of publications is included below:

20241 publications

A learning probabilistic boolean network model of a smart grid with applications in system maintenance

Rivera, P. and Chen, C. and Mac'ias, J. and Rodr'iguez, S. and Prieto, J. and Llanes, O. and Gershenson, C. and Kanaan Izquierdo, S.

Energies, 17, 24, article 6399 · 2024Link

20231 publications

Fault detection and isolation in smart-grid networks of intelligent power routers modeled as probabilistic boolean networks

Rivera, P. and Gershenson, C. and Kanaan Izquierdo, S.

Complexity, 2023, article 6690805 · 2023Link

20221 publications

Reinforcement learning with probabilistic boolean network models of smart grid devices

Rivera, P. and Gershenson, C. and S'anchez, M. and Kanaan-Izquierdo, S.

Complexity, 2022, article 3652441 · 2022Link

20211 publications

mWISE: an algorithm for context-based annotation of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry features through diffusion in graphs

Barranco, M. and Sola, P. and Picart, S. and Kanaan-Izquierdo, S. and Fonollosa, J. and Perera, A.

Analytical chemistry, 93, 31 · 2021DOI · Link

20201 publications

Marker-less monitoring protocol to analyze biomechanical joint metrics during pedaling

Serrancoli, G. and Bogatikov, P. and Pales, J. and Forcada, A. and Sanchez Egea, Antonio J. and Jordi Torner and Kanaan-Izquierdo, S. and Susin, A.

IEEE access, 8 · 2020Link

20182 publications

Multiview and multifeature spectral clustering using common eigenvectors

Kanaan-Izquierdo, S. and Ziyatdinov, A. and Perera, A.

Pattern recognition letters, 102 · 2018Link

Multiview: a software package for multiview pattern recognition methods

Kanaan-Izquierdo, S. and Ziyatdinov, A. and Burgueno, M. and Perera, A.

Bioinformatics, bty1039 · 2018DOI · Link

20171 publications

Early prediction of Alzheimer's disease using null longitudinal model-based classifiers

Gavidia, G. and Kanaan-Izquierdo, S. and Mataro-Serrat, M. and Perera, A.

PloS one, 12, 1 · 2017DOI · Link

20061 publications

The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF-2005

Ferr'es, D. and Kanaan-Izquierdo, S. and Ageno, A. and Gonzalez, E. and Rodriguez, H. and Turmo, J.

Lecture notes in computer science, 4022 · 2006DOI · Link

20051 publications

The TALP-QA system for Spanish at CLEF 2004: Structural and hierarchical relaxing of semantic constraints

Ferres, D. and Kanaan-Izquierdo, S. and Ageno, A. and Gonz'alez, E. and Rodriguez, H. and Surdeanu, M. and Turmo, J.

Lecture notes in computer science, 3491 · 2005DOI