Xavier Giroinieto
Applied Scientist at Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolXavier Giroinieto is an applied scientist at Amazon Barcelona with a strong academic pedigree as a former associate professor at UPC and a PhD in Signal Theory and Communications. He combines deep expertise in computer vision, multimedia retrieval and image quality assessment with hands-on work on personalization systems in industry. Xavier has a track record of building bridges between academia and industry—founding and directing a postgraduate deep learning program, advising startups that led to notable exits, and serving as area chair for top vision conferences. Based in Barcelona, he remains deeply embedded in the research ecosystem through roles in ELLIS, the Computer Vision Foundation, and the SFI training centre governance. Less obvious is his continuity of long-term collaborations—multiple summer stints at Columbia’s DVMM lab and cross-institutional mentorships—that reflect a career built on sustained international partnerships.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Master's Degree, Telecommunications Engineering at UPC - ETSETB TelecomBCNPrimary, (E.G.B.), Primary, (E.G.B.) at Escola JungfrauUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaProficiency, English, German, Proficiency, English, German at FIACHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at IES La LlaunaVisiting scholar, Computer Science, Visiting scholar, Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Catalan, Spanish, French, German
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Github Skills (49)
convolutional-neural-networks10
recurrent10
multimodal-deep-learning10
video-processing10
visual10
recurrent-neural-networks10
generative-adversarial-network10
generative10
segmentation10
face-generation10
skip10
prediction10
visual-recognition10
hierarchical9
face9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
imatge-upc/rvos
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
RVOS: End-to-End Recurrent Network for Video Object Segmentation (CVPR 2019)
Contributions:40 commits, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
pytorchsegmentationend-to-enddeep-learningcomputer-vision
telecombcn-dl/dlai-2019
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:141 commits, 140 pushes in 11 months
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