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), supported by ACM SIGIR.

• Outstanding reviewer award at the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2021.
• Outstanding 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 2017 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval.
• Most innovative paper award for Crowdsourcing Preference Judgments for Evaluation of Music Similarity Tasks, at the 2010 ACM SIGIR Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation, supported by Microsoft Bing.

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