Biography

Jan Strappa is a postdoctoral researcher at LICPaD, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Mendoza (Argentina). They are the co-founder of the R-Ladies Mendoza Chapter.

Interests
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Science
  • Libre Software
  • Piano
Education

  • Dr. in Computer Science, 2020

    Universidad Nacional de San Luis

  • Information Systems Engineer, 2013

    Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Mendoza

Skills

R

base, tidyverse, Rstudio, shinyapps

Python

Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow

SQL

intermediate

Git

Github, Bitbucket

Data Analysis

Tableau, Power BI, GCP

C

intermediate

LaTeX

articles, beamer, posters

VScode, Vim, RStudio

code editing

Markdown

Quarto, Rmarkdown

Agile

Jira, Taiga, Kanban

HTML/CSS

basic editing

Cloud: GCP, Azure

beginner (see public profile at GCSB)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
LICPaD laboratory at UTN FRM
Postdoctoral researcher: ML, parallel computing, prediction systems
LICPaD laboratory at UTN FRM
Mar 2021 – Present Mendoza, Argentina
I designed and undertook a research project using parallel metaheuristics for the prediction of wildfire growth and other propagation phenomena.
 
 
 
 
 
R-Ladies Mendoza
Co-organizer of R-Ladies Mendoza
R-Ladies Mendoza
Apr 2018 – Present Mendoza, Argentina
Co-founded and became a co-organizer of the Mendoza chapter of R-Ladies, together with Ana Laura Diedrichs.
 
 
 
 
 
DHARMa laboratory at UTN FRM
Doctoral researcher
DHARMa laboratory at UTN FRM
Apr 2015 – Dec 2020 Mendoza, Argentina
Worked on a distance measure for the comparison of log-linear models’ structure.
 
 
 
 
 
DHARMa laboratory at UTN FRM
Undergraduate research assistant
DHARMa laboratory at UTN FRM
Mar 2012 – Dec 2014 Mendoza, Argentina
Assisted doctoral students in implementation, experimentation, and paper writing tasks. Presented a paper at Iberamia 2014 conference.

Latest Accomplish­ments

Curso de Actualización en Power BI
Skill - Centro de Capacitación Feb 2023 – Mar 2023
An introductory course for working with Power BI, including data loading, transformation, and visualization.
See certificate
El corazón de la agilidad, cómo trabajar con agilidad
Mibucle Premium Feb 2023
Workshop de Jaime Arcos y Hernán Hurtado organizado por Mibucle Premium.
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SQL for Data Science
Coursera – University of California, Davis Jan 2023 – Feb 2023
A course on the fundamentals of SQL and working with data in order to begin analyzing it for data science purposes.
See certificate
NVIDIA DLI Certificate – Fundamentals of Deep Learning
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Feb 2022
ID: ad2ebf0b74ab42e9b38b7641351979a4.
See certificate
NVIDIA DLI Certificate – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Feb 2022
ID: 9c352f835f034bb68a867994ce414abc.
See certificate
Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) (English C2 level)
Cambridge English Dec 2016
Grade: A. ID Number: 872198KBC.
See certificate

Recent Posts

About my name
When I chose my own name —a liberating act that I think everyone should be allowed to do—, I wanted to go for something simple and inconspicuous. As it turns out, I was wrong on both assumptions.
Last updated on Jul 2, 2022 1 min read personal

Projects

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All Academic Side projects
A parallel Novelty Search metaheuristic for the prediction of propagation phenomena
Description of my postdoctoral project.
A parallel Novelty Search metaheuristic for the prediction of propagation phenomena
Structure Learning of Markov Networks and Log-linear Models
My PhD thesis research, and several related research lines in which I collaborated.
Structure Learning of Markov Networks and Log-linear Models

Recent & Upcoming Talks

[Spanish] Taller en FLISoL 2023 Valle de Uco: "Crea tu portafolio web con Quarto y RStudio”
Nuevo taller: Crea tu portafolio web con Quarto y RStudio, en el FLISoL Valle de Uco 2023
Apr 19, 2023 12:00 AM — 12:48 PM Valle de Uco
[Spanish] Taller en FLISoL 2023 Valle de Uco: "Crea tu portafolio web con Quarto y RStudio”
Workshop: "Create your stunning web portfolio for job hunting and freelance services with Quarto (no coding required)" at TransTech Summit 2023
I had the honor of being a speaker at the TransTech Summit 2023, with a workshop titled: “Create your stunning web portfolio for job hunting and freelance services with Quarto (no coding required)”.
Apr 1, 2023 12:00 AM — Apr 2, 2023 11:57 AM
Code Slides
Workshop: "Create your stunning web portfolio for job hunting and freelance services with Quarto (no coding required)" at TransTech Summit 2023
[Spanish] Taller del grupo de estudio de "R para Ciencia de Datos"
En el pasado encuentro del grupo de estudio del libro “R para Ciencia de Datos”, tuve el agrado de presentar el Capítulo 15 (Factores), con la ayuda y organización de R-Ladies Bariloche.
Jul 31, 2022 12:00 AM
Code
Taller de estudio del libro "R para Ciencia de Datos"
I’m going to guide Chapter 15 of R for Data Science (in Spanish).
Jul 28, 2022 6:00 PM — 7:30 PM Online
Code
Taller de estudio del libro "R para Ciencia de Datos"

Academic Publications

Jan Strappa, Paola Caymes Scutari, Germán Bianchini (2022). Evolutionary Statistical System based on Novelty Search: a Parallel Metaheuristic for Uncertainty Reduction Applied to Wildfire Spread Prediction. Journal Article.

PDF Code Project DOI

Jan Strappa (2022). Comparación eficiente de estructuras de independencia de modelos loglineales. Thesis.

PDF Project

Jan Strappa, Paola Caymes Scutari, Germán Bianchini (2022). A Parallel Novelty Search Metaheuristic Applied to a Wildfire Prediction System. In PDCO22.

PDF Cite Project Source Document DOI

Jan Strappa, Paola Caymes Scutari, Germán Bianchini (2022). Diseño de metaheurísticas paralelas con el paradigma Novelty Search para la reducción de incertidumbre en la predicción de fenómenos de propagación. In WICC22.

PDF Project Poster Source Document

Federico Schlüter, Jan Strappa, Diego H. Milone, Facundo Bromberg (2021). Blankets Joint Posterior score for learning Markov network structures. Article.

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Jan Strappa, Facundo Bromberg (2021). Efficient comparison of independence structures of log-linear models. Under review.

PDF Cite Code Project

Alejandro Edera, Jan Strappa, Facundo Bromberg (2014). The Grow-Shrink strategy for learning Markov network structures constrained by context-specific independences. In Iberamia 2014.

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Popular Topics

academic C data science distance measure español irregular structures Log-linear models Machine Learning Markov networks MPI Novelty Search Parallel Computing poster Probabilistic Graphical Models probabilistic models Quarto R Structure learning web workshop

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