Luis Gascó holds a PhD in Engineering and works as a Text Mining Research Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain). During his career, he has applied machine learning, NLP, and statistics to improve the quality of life of citizens by identifying and solving problems in cities and improving healthcare systems.
He has worked in international environments on projects in France and the UK, with research stays at Telecom Paris and Nokia Bell Labs (Cambridge). Graduated in Telecommunications Engineering (BsC in Image and Sound Engineering), with a Masters in Acoustic Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid and a Master in Big Data and Business Intelligence from the Escuela de Organización Industrial. He has also received funding and training from the EIT Digital Doctoral School, where he was awarded a PhD certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Experience
2020–present
Text Mining Research Engineer, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
2019–2020
Data Scientist, Atos
2020–2020
Postdoctoral research associate at Applied Intelligence and Data Analysis Research Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
2014–2019
Investigador en el Grupo de Instrumentación y Acústica Aplicada , Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
2018–2018
Visitor researcher, Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge
2017–2017
Visitor researcher , Télécom ParisTech
2013–2014
Ayudante de investigación en el Grupo de Instrumentación y Acústica Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Education
2020
EIT Digital Academy , European Institute of Innovation and Techology Doctoral School Certificate
2019
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid , Doctor en Ingeniería
2016
Escuela de Organización Industrial, Master en Business Intelligence y Big Data
2014
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Acústica en la Industria y el Transporte
2013
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Grado en Ingeniería de Sonido e Imagen
Publications
2020
A taxonomy proposal for the assessment of the changes in soundscape resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown, https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/12/4205
2020
Social media and open data to quantify the effects of noise on health, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2020.00041/full
2020
A Digital Signal Processor Based Acoustic Sensor for Outdoor Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities, https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/3/605
2019
Beyond sound level monitoring: Exploitation of social media to gather citizens subjective response to noise, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.071
2018
Assessment of Residents’ Exposure to Leisure Noise in Málaga (Spain), https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/5/12/134
2017
Communicating airport noise emission data to the general public, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.063
2017
A review of non-acoustic measures to handle community response to noise around airports, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40726-017-0060-x
2015
Implementation of a virtual laboratory for training on sound insulation testing and uncertainty calculations in acoustic test, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4907162
Research Areas
Acoustics And Noise Control (Excl. Architectural Acoustics) (091301)
Pattern Recognition And Data Mining (080109)
Environmental Sciences (05)
Natural Language Processing (080107)
Health Informatics (080702)
Honours
• Best speaker in 2nd PhD Symposium - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid • Prize “Catedra Luis de Camoens UC3M” to the best scientific communication presented by a young researcher at Internoise 2019