Jose A. Ayala-Romero

Jose A. Ayala-Romero

Senior Research Scientist

NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

Biography

Senior Research Scientist with NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH. Before joining NEC, he was working as a Senior Data Scientist with the CBG AI lab at Huawei Ireland Research Center from Jan 2021 to Sep 2022, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin from Nov 2019 to Jan 2021. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Communications from the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain, in 2019. During the Ph.D., he was an Intern at Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, in 2017, and NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany, in 2018.

Interests

  • Machine Learning, Online Learning, and Reinforcement Learning
  • Mobile Networks and Prototyping

Education and Profesional Experience

  • Senior Research Scientist

    NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

  • Senior Data Scientist

    Huawei Ireland Research Center

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    Trinity College Dublin

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Communications

    Technical University of Cartagena

  • MSc in Telecommunications Engineering

    Technical University of Cartagena

  • BSc in Telecommunications Engineering

    Technical University of Cartagena

Recent Publications

Risk-Aware Continuous Control with Neural Contextual Bandits

Recent advances in learning techniques have garnered attention for their applicability to a diverse range of real-world sequential …

Fair Resource Allocation in Virtualized O-RAN Platforms

O-RAN systems and their deployment in virtualized general-purpose computing platforms (O-Cloud) constitute a paradigm shift expected to …

Mean-Field Multi-Agent Contextual Bandit for Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in vRANs

Radio Access Network (RAN) virtualization, key for new-generation mobile networks, requires Hardware Accelerators (HAs) that swiftly …

YinYangRAN: Resource Multiplexing in GPU-Accelerated Virtualized RANs

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