Guillermo Barbadillo Villanueva
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AI Researcher
Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
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Jobs
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AI ResearcherNdeaDec 2025 - Current (10 months)- PodcasterTertuliaFeb 2023 - Current (3 years 8 months)Podcast about AI in Spanish
- Kaggle GrandmasterironbaraiJun 2014 - Current (12 years 4 months)On my free time, I love to do AI projects. I have been participating in many AI Challenges, mainly in Kaggle, where I currently have Grandmaster rank. I have won the following prizes:
- 🥈 Second prize on ARC Prize 2024 (Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus)
- 🥇 First prize on DSTL's Safe Passage, a challenge for analyzing satellite images. 2017
- 🥇 First prize on Schneider's "Power Laws: Cold Start Energy Forecasting" 2018
- 🏆 Kaggle's Best Solution Write-up Authors of 2023
- 🥈 Second prize on AI Village Capture the Flag @ DEFCON31 2023
- 🥈 Second prize on Animal-AI Olympics 2019
- 🏆 WBA prize for the most biologically plausible entry on Animal-AI Olympics 2019
- 🥈 Second prize on Schneider' - Gap yearCareer BreakFeb 2024 - Feb 2025 (1 year 1 month)
- Principal AI ScientistVeridasJan 2022 - Dec 2025 (4 years)Develop state-of-the-art models for:
- Face biometrics
- Face and document antispoofing
- Age estimation - AI Research ScientistVeridasJan 2019 - Jan 2022 (3 years 1 month)Develop state-of-the-art models for voice biometrics
- AI Research ScientistdasNanoJan 2015 - Jan 2019 (4 years 1 month)I developed the core AI system that powered Lynx, The Contactless Counting System.
http://www.das-nano.com/lynx/ - R&D EngineerdasNanoNov 2012 - Dec 2014 (2 years 2 months)My work at das-Nano has involved the following activies and fields: magnetic nanoparticles, electronics, artificial intelligence, cad design, simulations, pcb designing, exhibiting in a trade fair...
- Summer Internship in RoboticsUniversity of Hertfordshire Adaptative Systems Research GroupJun 2011 - Aug 2011 (3 months)Eight Week Summer Internship at Hertfordshire University (United Kingdom) during the 2011 summer. My work consisted of providing the humanoid robot KASPAR a tactile artificial skin. FSR pressure sensors and an Arduino board were used. KASPAR is a robot used to help child with autism problems. The aim of this project was to improve the ability of the robot of reacting autonomously in the interaction with the children.
- Redesigning the foot of a Robonova humanoid robotIRIJun 2010 - Aug 2010 (3 months)CSIC Introduction to Research Grant during the 2010 summer at IRI (Industrial Robotic Institute) in Barcelona. My work was to redesign the foot of a Robonova robot to make it able to feel the pressure of the floor and obstacles.
Education
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- Industrial Engineering, Electronics and AutomationUniversidad Pública de NavarraJan 2007 - Jan 2012 (5 years 1 month)
Projects (professional or personal)
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- TThe Gallic WarsSep 2023 - Oct 2023 (2 months)During the summer of 2023, I read the classic book by Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars. The reading was very interesting, but the language was old and difficult to understand. I also found myself constantly going to Google Maps to be able to understand the action.
I decided to release my own edition in which I use a modern Spanish, and it is illustrated with maps. The edition has been a complete success, with more than 150 units sold by February 2024 and selling at a rate of 1-2 books a day. - DDesigning a device for controlled drug delivery using nanotechnologyApr 2013 - Apr 2014 (1 year 1 month)On 2013 I was awarded the Fuentes Dutor Grant. I designed a device for controlled drug delivery using nanotechnology. Nanoparticle drug delivery is a technique that is particularly suitable to treat delicate parts of the body and that should be manipulated as little as possible such as chronic diseases of the eye, where the usual technique requires continuous injection into the eyeball. This project will focus on the ear because being an internal organ makes the designing of the device more challenging.
- DDesigning, Building and Programming a Sumo RobotSep 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 1 month)I designed, built and programmed a sumo robot for my Final Year Project.
Awards
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- IAI Village Capture the Flag @ DEFCON31, 2º positionIssued by KaggleThe popular and competitive game, Capture the Flag (CTF), isn't only played outdoors. A digital CTF refers to a set of challenges or puzzles that require participants to exploit vulnerabilities, solve problems, or uncover hidden information within computer systems, software, or networks.
In this competition, you'll interact with 27 hand-crafted machine learning security challenges to find flags, solve puzzles, and gain hands-on experience with concepts of AI security and safety. Every challenge is worth 1 point, so don't worry about starting late, just dive in! - IBest Solution Write-up Authors of 2023Issued by KaggleWe're thrilled to award $100,000 to the best solution write-up authors of 2023!
Open sharing after Kaggle competitions is such an important part of our community, and we deeply value the participants who contribute to the treasure trove of solution write-ups summarizing the latest ML techniques and technologies.
We hope these awards will honor the great work done this year and encourage even more publishing.
Our selection process involved first looking at the most upvoted solution write-up from every Featured and Research competition that closed in 2023, identifying authors who had repeated instances of high-quality work, then evaluating the remaining list’s work qualitatively using our quality rubric with s