Alba Porxas
Research Scientist - Digital Health at Adhera Health
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlba Porxas is a research scientist in digital health with nine years of experience applying data analysis, signal processing, and machine learning to complex biomedical problems. She has worked across academia and industry—from McGill and Georgia Tech to Parc Taulí and Adhera Health—focusing on multimodal neuroimaging, physiological signals (heart rate, respiration), psychometrics, and ICU datasets. Holding a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Alba bridges rigorous research methods with product-oriented digital health initiatives, translating noisy biosignals into actionable insights. Her background in telecommunications engineering and a stint in field service engineering give her an uncommon blend of hardware-aware signal expertise and practical deployment experience. Colleagues describe her as a data-driven problem solver who thrives at the intersection of research, clinical data, and machine learning.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Final Year Thesis - Broadband Wireless Networking Lab, Final Year Thesis - Broadband Wireless Networking Lab at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Engineering at McGill University
English, Catalan, Spanish, Greek
Github Skills (5)
topological-data-analysis4
surface4
python3
neuroimaging3
visualization2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
axifra/BrainAge_MRI-MEG
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
axifra/Nuisance_signatures_FC
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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