Rubén Armañanzas, who has recently joined the DATAI team, has been awarded the "Senior Talent 2021 ANDIA" grant by the Government of Navarra. financial aid ANDIA Senior Talent 2021. These grants finance the hiring for 5 years of staff researcher with an outstanding research career.

Rubén Armañanzas is a scientist with twenty years of experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, bio and neuro informatics, and biomedical applications. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2009 at the University of the Basque Country (San Sebastián, Spain). He moved to Madrid to work at the Technical University of Madrid within the Cajal Blue Brain Project until fall 2013. He held a faculty position in the Bioengineering Department and an affiliate faculty of the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at George Mason University (Fairfax, US) until late 2018. Rubén moved to industry in early 2019 as the Manager of the Algorithm Development Team at BrainScope Company Inc. (Bethesda, MD) where he managed project planning and execution of the Research & Development team. In late 2020, he joined the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics as a Senior Classification Engineer. During his career Rubén has led several healthcare projects aimed at providing personalized medicine to predict disease diagnoses. The methodological toolbox includes, among others, probabilistic graphical models and several classification algorithms from machine learning, and bio-inspired heuristic algorithms within the optimization field.