News & Updates - Dr. S. Saman Emami

2025

Dec
Accepted Paper (Robust Multi-Task Gradient Boosting) presentation (Poster session) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) — Presented our work “Robust Multi-Task Gradient Boosting” at the Bright Minds, Cold Days Winter Event, organized by the ELLIS Madrid Unit.
Nov
Rejoined Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) as Professor Assistant
Nov
Full-time Research Associate at GAA-UAM — Continuing research activities with the GAA-UAM research group.
Sep
Visiting Lecturer at University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) — Visiting Professor through a short term academic collaboration.
Sep
Research Associate at UIB Research Group — Joined the research group as a Research Associate.
Sep
Initiated a research collaboration with Universidad de Alcalá — Started a side collaboration on an academic research paper.

Winter
Co-Founder of a Health-Tech Startup — Founded a technology startup in the digital health sector, focusing on data-driven solutions for healthcare applications.
Oct
PhD thesis successfully defended — Awarded cum laude. Gradient Boosting Extensions
Oct
Attended Paris Generative AI Autumn School 2024 — Generative AI methods and applications.

Oct
Accepted Paper (A gradient boosting approach for training convolutional and deep neural networks) presentation (Poster session) at ICIP 2023 — IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.
Sep
Accepted Paper (Multi-Task Gradient Boosting) presentation at HAIS 2023 — 18th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems.
Fall
Co-Founder of Napcat Ventures — Accelerator Program Contributor at Tenity (SIX Group, Switzerland) — Assisted startups as part of the accelerator program supported by SIX Swiss Exchange.
Jan
Accepted paper presentation (Poster session) at GTTI MMSP 2023 — GTTI-SPS Thematic Meeting on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP).

Nov
Visiting PhD at Università di Padova — Joined the Signal Processing Research Group as a visiting doctoral researcher.
Oct
Accepted paper (Multioutput Regression Neural Network Training via Gradient Boosting) presentation at ESANN 2022
Jan
Started a Teaching Assistant position at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)