Awards and Honors

This is a list of awards and honors I have received.

Research

• Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship (4th position nationwide), Spanish Government, 2015.
• A4U Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1st position), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2013.
• Student Travel Grant awardee, International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2013.

• Reviewer award at the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2024.
• Reviewer award at the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2021.
• Reviewer award at the 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2014.

• Best short paper award for “The Treatment of Ties in AP Correlation”, at the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017.
• Most innovative paper award for “Crowdsourcing Preference Judgments for Evaluation of Music Similarity Tasks”, at the ACM SIGIR Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation, 2010.

• Best results in the Symbolic Melodic Similarity task of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX), 2015.
• Best results in the Symbolic Melodic Similarity task of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX), 2014.
• Best results in the Symbolic Melodic Similarity task of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX), 2013.
• Best results in the Symbolic Melodic Similarity task of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX), 2012.
• Best results (as per NIST ground truth) in the Crowdsourcing Track of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2011.
• Best results in the Symbolic Melodic Similarity task of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX), 2011.
• Best results in the Symbolic Melodic Similarity task of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX), 2010.

Teaching

• Congratulation letter “for the excellent results obtained in teaching the course Information Retrieval and Access, University Carlos III of Madrid, 2012.
• Congratulation letter “for the excellent results obtained in teaching the course Advanced Software Design, University Carlos III of Madrid, 2010.
• Selected by the students to appear as a faculty member in their graduation class photo. Bachelor on Computer Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017.
• Selected by the students to appear as a faculty member in their graduation class photo. Short Bachelor on Computer Engineering, University Carlos III of Madrid, 2010.