Updates
Here you’ll find latest news, whether I’m giving a talk or attending a conference, or simply some idea that popped in my mind.
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Improving Last-Mile Delivery Through Transdisciplinary Collaboration
Mobility is a cornerstone of city life, but improving it is a deeply complex challenge. My research focuses on “smartifying” urban mobility services, with a specific emphasis on last-mile delivery. In this chapter, I introduce a framework designed to improve first-try success rates in last-mile logistics. The goal was to create a solution that provides…
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Comparing CNNs and Transformers for Multiclass Patent Classification in Spanish
My co-authored article, “Comparing CNNs and Transformers for Multiclass Patent Classification in Spanish”, has just been published. This work was presented at the Eleventh International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG 2025) in Bern, Switzerland.
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Unveiling Insights from Hematobiometry Data
My co-authored article, “Unveiling Insights from Hematobiometry Data: A Data Science Approach Using Data from a Quito Clinical Laboratory”, has just been published. This work was presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE 2025) in Porto, Portugal
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Classifying Patents in Spanish within the Subclasses of the Standardized International Patent Classification System: A Case Study
My co-authored article, “Classifying Patents in Spanish within the Subclasses of the Standardized International Patent Classification System: A Case Study”, has just been published. This work was presented at the Tenth International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG 2024) in Lucerne, Switzerland. Based on the master’s thesis of my former student, Daniel Atiencia, from the…
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Webinar: Traffic predictions applying graph neural networks
Exciting news! I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be presenting a webinar for the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE University) community.
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ResearchPod episode about my doctoral thesis
Thanks to the invitation of my former PhD advisor Prof. Edy Portmann, an episode of ResearchPod about my doctoral thesis has been just published! In this episode, they take a look at t my work which was conducted in collaboration with Swiss Post, the national postal company of Switzerland, and Viasuisse, the traffic competence information…
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Teaching @ HSLU
I’m happy to share that during the Autumn Semester of 2023, I’ll be teaching and tutoring projects at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hochschule Luzern – HSLU) in Switzerland.
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Industry Talk – PhD School on Business Informatics Uni Fribourg
The PhD School on Business Informatics is a joint project initiated by Prof. Hans-Georg Fill and Prof. Edy Portmann of the Department of Informatics and funded by the rectorate of the University of Fribourg.
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Teaching @ PUCE University
I’m happy to announce that I’m now part of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador as Guest Lecturer of the Master Progam in Information Systems (with minor in Data Science). I’ll be teaching the courses of Machine Learning and Big Data Systems. I’ll be advising as well master’s theses. I’m thrilled of being able to…
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Dr. Pincay Nieves is awarded the Faculty Prize 2022
The Faculty of Science and Medicine of the University of Fribourg, through the Deanery Council from 12.05.2022, after information of the Faculty Council from 30.05.2022, decided to award the Faculty Prize 2022 to Jhonny Pincay Nieves, former Ph.D. student of the Human-IST Institute for his PhD-thesis entitled “Smartifying Logistics with Computational Intelligence”, realized under the…
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