About me
Hello! I'm Francisco Miguel Castro Macías, but everybody knows me as Fran Castro. I'm pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science. I am interested in the intersection of mathematics and computer science. My research is focused on developing innovative probabilistic models for solving weakly supervised and inverse problems, with applications in the medical field.
In 2021, I earned dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Granada. The following year, I earned a Master's Degree in Data Science and Computer Engineering from the same institution. Since July 2022, I am a member of the Visual Information Processing Group within the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Department at the University of Granada. My supervisors are Rafael Molina Soriano, Pablo Morales Álvarez and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos.
Email: francastro8b@gmail.com / fcastro@ugr.es.
Address: Room D1-7 / Room IB10, CITIC-UGR, C/ Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain.
You can find my CV here.
History and news
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Nov. 2024: We have been awarded the "Best student paper award" at ICIP24! Our paper "Bayesian Blind Image Deconvolution using an Hyperbolic-Secant prior" is available here. The link to the news is here.
Sept. 2024: Our paper "Sm: enhanced localization in Multiple Instance Learning for medical imaging classification" has been accepted for NeurIPS 2024! It is available here.
March 2024: I have just arrived to Northwestern University in Chicago! I will be working under the supervision of Aggelos K. Katsaggelos until late June.
May 2023: Our paper "Smooth Attention for Deep Multiple Instance Learning: Application to CT Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection" has been accepted for MICCAI 2023! It is available here.
Jan. 2023: I have started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Granada. It will be funded by a FPU research grant awarded by the Ministry of Universities.
- Jun. 2023: I attended the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School at the Oxford Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK.
Jul. 2022 - Jan. 2023: I worked as a Research Assistant at the Visual Information Processing Group at University of Granada.
Sep. 2021 - Sep. 2022: I completed my Master's degree in Data Science and Computer Engineering from University of Granada. My final dissertation is titled Gaussian processes for Multiple Instance Learning problems. Application to detection of intracranial hemorrhages. You can find it here.
- Aug. 2021: I attended the 6th Blas Cabrera Summer School at the UIMP for graduates with the best academic records in Spain.
Sep. 2016 - Jul. 2021: I completed my two Bachelor's degrees (Computer Science and Mathematics) at University of Granada. My final dissertation is titled Foundations of Deep Learning and development of a Federated Learning model to predict COVID19 disease from chest X-rays images. You can find it here.
- April 2022: I obtained the 2022 ETSIIT award for the best final dissertation of the Degree in Computer Engineering.
