Arturo Torres, PhD Belvaux, Luxembourg

Bjairoatorres@gmail.com

Summary

Motivated environmental scientist and machine learning engineer with ample experience in diverse research

and consultancy projects in sustainable smart agriculture and water resources management. Passionate about

building models that ﬁx real-world problems, and to communicating with stakeholders and industry partners

model outcomes. Relevant skills include leadership, data engineering and analysis, artiﬁcial intelligence (AI),

machine learning, problem solving, computational programming, geospatial data analysis, spatio-temporal

uncertainty analysis, time series forecasting, climate change assessment, project management, team work

and creative thinking.

Scientiﬁc Proﬁle and Author Metrics

Since 2017 to

Jan 2023

Author Metrics,h-index=4, Number of citations: 43, Peer-reviewed Journal Paper: 9

International Conference Proceedings: 11.

Scientiﬁc Proﬁles, Scholar Proﬁle (Read more ...), ResearchGate (Read more ...).

Social networks, Linkedin (Read more ...),

Main Work Experience - last 16 years

Jul 2021 Junior Research & Technology Associate

to present Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) department

Environmental Sensing and Modelling unit

•R&D collaboration with national and international partners and stakeholders (e.g. Min-

istry of Environment of Luxembourg, Agricultural and Meterorological Organizations in

Luxembourg, Private Banking Sector - Spuerkees) for climate change assessment.

BioVIM project:

•Artiﬁcial Neural Network (ANN) forecast models for leaf wetness sensors and decision

support tools.

Weevil project:

•ANN and random forest forecast models for decision support tools in crop protection.

CHAPEL project:

•High-resolution climate change projections, climate change indices development and

statistical analysis for Luxembourg.

May 2019 to Engineer (Geocomputation)

Jun 2021 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) department

•Writing of high-impact peer-review journal papers in English;

•Presentations in international scientiﬁc conferences in English.

EOTSA project:

•Unit testing and documentation of the Earth Observation Time Series Analysis toolbox,

commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA).

VinoManAOP project:

•Develop, test and rollout statistical models for agro-bussines and sustainability in Eu-

rope.

Clim4Vitis project:

•Data cleaning and analysis for optimization of mathematical and statistical computa-

tional models for climate change impact mitigation in Europe.

Jan 2015 to Ph.D. Candidate,

Jan 2019 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

Wageningen University & Research (WUR), The Netherlands

QUICS project:

•Data-driven modelling for temporal uncertainty propagation analysis in the framework

of my Ph.D. research at Wageningen University;

•Writing of high-impact peer-review journal papers in English;

•Presentations in international scientiﬁc conferences in English.

•Spatio-temporal precipitation modelling and uncertainty: Development of routines for

precipitation prediction and downscaling for Luxembourg.

May to Dic Research Assistant

2014 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWUM), Germany

•Institute for Geoinformatics (gif) at Spatio-temporal Modelling Lab, Tracking the

human-footprint on water resources.

•Analytical and data-driven spatio-temporal modelling;

•Presentation in scientiﬁc conferences;

•Development and writing of Ph.D. project.

Sep 2010 to Engineering Project Manager

Aug 2012 Estudios y Asesorías Ingenieros Consultores (EA), Colombia

•R&D collaboration with national and international industrial (Energy and water utilities)

partners and stakeholders (e.g. EMGESA, ENDESA, Acuagyr, EPSA).;

•Hydro-power industry and hydro-informatics modelling, time series analysis.

Aug 2006 to Research Assistant

Aug 2010 Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNal), Colombia

•R&D collaboration with national partners and stakeholders (e.g. EAAB, CAR, Colcien-

cias, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente de Colombia - Ministry of Environment of Colombia)

for mathematical and computational modelling;

•Data acquisition and development of computational data-driven models in Matlab;

•Calibration, validation, and simulation of mathematical and computational models.

Competences and Skills

Soft skills Communication, leadership, collaboration, creative thinking, critical thinking, problem

solving, active learning, perceptiveness, generating hypotheses, interpersonal skills.

Hard skills Data engineering and analysis, mathematics, statistics, engineering, data visualiza-

tion, programming, quantitative analysis, machine learning, debugging, modelling, uncer-

tainty.

Programming

skills

Expert user, R Programming, Python (Pandas, Matplotlib, ...), Jupyter, Bash, Ver-

sion Control (Git, GitHub, Gitlab), NoSQL, Matlab-Simulink. Intermediate user: Ruby,

Fortran.

Machine learning Keras, Tensorﬂow, Scikit-learn, regression, classiﬁcation.

HPC and Big

Data

Spark, Hadoop, parallel, doparallel, Docker, Linux cluster management.

Geospatial data

analysis

ArcGIS, QGIS, GRASS GIS (R integration by rgrass), Geopandas.

Language Spanish (Mother Tongue), English (C2), Luxemburgish (A2), Portuguese (A2), French

(A1), German (A1).

OS Advanced user, Linux (Ubuntu 20.04), MacOS, Windows.

Patents and Software

I have started one patent with LIST concerning algorithm to scalable and reproducible

workﬂow for uncertainty propagation in mathematical and computational modelling. I

am developer of two open-source packages EmiStatR (Link), and stUPscales (Link).

Education

2015 – 2021 Ph.D.

Wageningen University and Research (WUR), The Netherlands.

2012 – 2014 M.Sc. Geospatial Technologies

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWUM), Germany

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Overall GPA: A+

2006 – 2009 M.Eng. Hydraulic Engineering

Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNal), Colombia

Overall GPA: A

1997 – 2004 B.Eng. Civil Engineering

UNal, Colombia. Overall GPA: A

Honours and Awards

2015 – 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship,Scholarship from the European Commission for

Ph.D. degree.

2012 – 2014 Erasmus Mundus fellowship,Scholarship from the European Commission for M.Sc.

degree.

2007 Winner “Convocatoria Nacional de Investigación 2008",Vicerrectoría de Investi-

gación, UN (National Research Summons of the Research Assistant Rector’s Oﬃce).

2006 – 2007 Scholarship holder, “Beca estudiantes sobresalientes de posgrado",(scholarship

program for outstanding post-graduate students, UNal) for M.Eng. degree.

Specialised Short Courses

ongoing Continued education and training, Presentations and public speaking in English, sci-

entiﬁc writing, project management, programming languages, language courses.

2021 Data Science Machine Learning,Edx Course, Harvard University, United States of

America.

2020 Seminar PALM (a state-of-the-art Parallelized Large-eddy simulation Model),

Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.

2015 7th Summer School Environmental Systems Analysis,Eawag, Dübendorf,

Switzerland.

2014 Uncertainty propagation in spatial and environmental modelling,Wageningen Uni-

versity and Research, WUR, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Last update: January 7, 2023.