Mathematics Degree Student
Javier Rodríguez Martínez
I am currently in the final year of my Mathematics Degree at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), with a profound interest in neuroscience, finance, biology, and data science. My passion for neuroscience began in high school, and I chose to approach it through mathematics, which led me to join the Brain Circuits Behavior Lab as an internship student. Regarding finance, my academic background, combined with lifelong exposure to financial markets through family influences, has driven me to pursue self-directed learning. This includes studying seminal works like Harry Markowitz’s Portfolio Selection and actively managing a personal investment portfolio. In addition to my academic pursuits, I enjoy working on personal projects and learning independently. In my free time, I find joy in DJing, surfing, and playing the guitar.
Experience
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Internship
Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab (IDIBAPS)
Jul 2024 - Present
Internship conducting experiments with mice using an automated behavioral system (Training Village) to study the effects of anti-NMDAR encephalitis on working memory. Current tasks include statistical analysis with Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and future work involves dynamic systems modeling for advanced data interpretation. This internship is aligned with my final degree project (TFG) in mathematics.
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Participant at the program. LYISF is a two-week science program held at Imperial College of London and the Royal Geographical Society with participants from over 70 countries. I attended lectures on a variety of science topics and visited research centres such as the Oxford Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.
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Summer Course (An introduction to image processing)
Institut de Ciències Fótoniques (ICFO)
Jul 2021
A two week course on image compression algorithms in Matlab and information theory held at ICFO in the Theoretical Quantum Nano-Photonics Group.
Education
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Degree in Mathematics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Sep 2021 - Present
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Summer Course (Applied Machine Learning to Solve Real-Life Problems)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (MESIO UPC-UB Summer School)
July 2023
Conducted by a lead data scientist at N26. The course focused on financial problems, such as credit risk, fraud detection and default rate prediction. A kaggle competition centered on predicting default rates of businesses was held at the course, where I achieved the winning position.
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Youth and Science
Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
Selected to participate at the programme Youth and Science, managed by Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera. A three-year programme to encourage scientific vocations of fifty talented young people with a drive to research. Funded to participate in LIYSF and the ICFO summer course (An introduction to image processing).
My Projects
Discover my projects on the different areas that I like.
LaTeX-Templates
A repository including some useful templates for LaTex and my own class.
LaTeX
Mesio Summer School 2023 Machine Learning contest
Winning ML model from the 2023 MESIO UPC-UB Kaggle contest, predicting bankruptcy odds for Polish companies.
Python
Algorismia_2022_game
Code developed to enter the contest inside the FME Algorithms course 2022.
C++
Other things I have done
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Classified for the national phase of the European Youth Parliament (EYP) as Wildcard (participant classified without his team) in 2021.
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Classified for the national phase of the Spanish Biology Olympiad in 2021.
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Classified for the national phase of the robotics competition First Lego League (FLL) as team leader in 2017 and 2018.
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Winner of the subcategory Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME-UPC) prize in a competition of mathematical education videos organized by Numerical Factory in 2023.