Jhosimar Arias

About Me

I am an independent researcher and the founder of ML/DL Meetup AQP, a non-profit community of people interested in artificial intelligence.

I completed my master's degree in Computer Science at Institute of Computing , University of Campinas. My thesis focuses on the study of semi-supervised and unsupervised clustering based on deep generative models.

I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering from National University of Saint Agustine. During my undergraduate years I had the opportunity to participate in several competitions such as ACM/ICPC international programming contest representing my university and online competitions (TopCoder, HackerRank, LeetCode).

As part of my professional experience I worked as software engineer for zAgile, a startup located in San Francisco, integrating software technologies such as Salesforce, Confluence and Jira.

News

2020

[Dec 2020] Received a Scholarship to attend the Neural Information Processing Systems Online Conference (NeurIPS).
[Nov 2020] Invited to give a talk about "Limitations and New Frontiers of AI" at San Martin de Porres University, Peru. [recording]
[Oct 2020] Gave a talk about Markov Decision Processes as part of the Reinforcement Learning Study Group. [recording]
[Sep 2020] Gave a talk about Batch Normalization as part of the Deep Learning Study Group. [recording]
[Aug 2020] Received a Scholarship to attend the Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD).
[Jul 2020] Started the Deep Learning Study Group (in spanish) based on the Deep Learning Specialization of Coursera.
[Jul 2020] Received a Scholarship to attend the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
[Jun 2020] Invited to give a talk about "Deep Learning: Applications, Challenges and Opportunities" at San Martin de Porres University, Peru.
[Jun 2020] Invited to give a talk about "Competitive Programming" at Technological University of Peru.
[May 2020] Teacher of "Introduction to Machine Learning" course offered by La Salle University, Peru.
[Apr 2020] Received a Scholarship to attend the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
[Apr 2020] Received a Scholarship Pass to attend the Virtual Open Data Science Conference East 2020.
[Feb 2020] Co-teacher of the Machine Learning course offered in the "Data Science Certificate Program" by La Salle University in Arequipa, Peru.
[Jan 2020] Presented a practical session about "Deep Learning Fundamentals" at the "Second Peruvian Symposium on Deep Learning" in Arequipa, Peru. [site]
[Jan 2020] President and organizer of the "Second Peruvian Symposium on Deep Learning" in Arequipa, Peru. [site]

2019

[Nov 2019] Invited to give a talk about "The Power and Limits of Deep Learning" at "Chapter Week - Systems Engineering & Informatics" in Arequipa, Peru.
[Oct 2019] My work "Deep Clustering using MMD Variational Autoencoder and Traditional Clustering Algorithms" was accepted in the workshop of Sets & Partitions (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada.
[Oct 2019] My work "Semi-supervised Learning using Deep Generative Models and Auxiliary Tasks" was accepted in the 4th Bayesian Deep Learning workshop (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada.
[Sep 2019] Invited to give a talk about "Conferences and Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence" at "Artificial Intelligence Seminar" in Arequipa, Peru.
[Jun 2019] Attended the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach.
[Jun 2019] Presented my work of semi-supervised classification as oral presentation and poster at the Latinx in AI Workshop (ICML), Long Beach, CA.
[Jun 2019] Invited to give a talk about "Foundations and Applications of Neural Networks" and to be part of the tech expo with my community at Xpotron 2019: Control of Dynamical and Aerospace Systems in Arequipa, Peru.
[May 2019] Invited to give a talk about "The Power and Limits of Deep Learning" and a practical session about "Unsupervised Learning" at "Computer Day Puno 2019: Artificial Intelligence" in Puno, Peru. [slides] [code]
[Feb 2019] Invited to give a talk about Deep Learning at the "Machine Learning Seminar" in Cuzco, Peru. [slides]
[Jan 2019] Presented my work of unsupervised clustering at the "First Peruvian Symposium on Deep Learning" in Arequipa, Peru. [slides]
[Jan 2019] Presented a tutorial about the Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning at the "First Peruvian Symposium on Deep Learning" in Arequipa, Peru. [slides]
[Jan 2019] President and organizer of the "First Peruvian Symposium on Deep Learning" in Arequipa, Peru. [site]
[Jan 2019] Presented my work of semi-supervised clustering at the X Peruvian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Arequipa, Peru. [slides]

2018

[May 2018] Founded the group called "ML/DL Meetup AQP" in Arequipa, Peru.
[Feb 2018] Defended my master's thesis at UNICAMP in Campinas, Brazil. [slides]
[Jan 2018] Invited to give a talk about my work presented at NIPS. International Conference on Computer Research in Arequipa, Peru. [slides]

Contact

Email: jariasf03 at gmail dot com