Alain Andres Fernandez
Data Scientist & Researcher In Artificial Intelligence
San Sebastián, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
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Top SchoolAlain Andres Fernandez is a Data Scientist and AI researcher with nine years of experience applying reinforcement learning and intrinsic motivation methods to improve sample efficiency in sparse-reward environments, culminating in a PhD (Cum Laude) from UPV/EHU. Based in San Sebastián, he has a long-standing research role at TECNALIA and a visiting collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s autonomous agents group, blending academic rigor with applied R&D. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at Universidad de Deusto, bridging theory and practice for the next generation of engineers. His background in telecommunications and cybersecurity, plus hands-on telemetry and control experience from Formula Student, gives him an unusual combination of systems-level engineering and advanced machine learning.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, Cum Laude at UPV/EHUComputer Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Statistics at Eastern New Mexico University
Github Skills (41)
simulator9
gymnasium9
platform-independent9
unreal9
control-systems9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
actor-critic8
computer-vision8
reinforcement-learning8
region8
robotics8
grid-world8
simulation8
airsim8
mujoco7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aklein1995/fitness
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 2 months
aklein1995/aklein1995.github.io
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:24 pushes in 3 years
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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