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Name Luis Carranza
Label Researcher
Email luis.carranza@upc.edu
Summary PhD student at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, working on Character Animation using Deep Reinforcement Learning.

Work

  • 2024.01 - Present
    Researcher
    ViRVIG
    PhD research in character animation
    • Character Animation
    • Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • 2022.10 - 2023.10
    Research Intern
    ViRVIG
    Geometric Operations for industrial HP 3D printers
    • Develop a library to transform 3D models into slices a 3D printer can process
    • Designed and implemented optimized geometric processing algorithms with C++ by using data structures
  • 2021.01 - 2021.12
    Software Engineer
    Tuxpas
    Data Engineering and Cloud Architecture projects
    • Designed and developed data lake processes for +1M transactions with PySpark and using AWS services
    • Designed and budgeted +10 Cloud Architectures for Data Engineering and Data Analytics projects
  • 2020.08 - 2020.12
    Trainee
    Huawei
    Material Control Management for 5G Optic Fiber Installations
    • Managed projects in +10 different cities simultaneously with +5 contractors

Education

  • 2023.01 - Present

    Barcelona, Spain

    PhD
    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Computer Science
    • Character Animation
    • Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • 2021.09 - 2023.07

    Barcelona, Spain

    Master
    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
    • Simulations
    • Physically-based methods
  • 2015.03 - 2020.08

    Lima, Perú

    Bachelor
    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
    Informatics Engineering
    • Software Engineering
    • Deep Learning
    • 3D reconstruction

Awards

  • 2023
    PhD FPI Grant
    Spain Ministery of Science, Innovation and Universities
    Predoctoral contract grant
  • 2022
    Research Initiation Grant
    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Research internt contract grant
  • 2020
    Becas Santander Scholarship
    MIT Professional Education
    Scholarship for online programs related with Leading Digital Transformation and Cloud & DevOps: Continuous Transformation
  • 2019
    CINDA Scholarship
    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
    Scholarship for a student exchange program between the most important universities in Latin America and prestigious universities in Europe

Certificates

Languages

Spanish
Fluent
English
Fluent
French
Intermediate
Catalan
Basic