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Contact Information
| Name | Manuel Lecha |
| Professional Title | ELLIS PhD Student |
| mlechasanchez@gmail.com |
Professional Summary
ELLIS PhD student with a background in mathematics and computer science, supervised by Alessio Del Bue and Michael Bronstein. My research focuses on designing machine learning methods from first principles, with an emphasis on geometric deep learning — including equivariant architectures and graph foundation models.
Education
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2024 - 2027 Genoa & Oxford
ELLIS PhD Program
Italian Institute of Technology & University of Oxford
Machine Learning
- Supervisors — Alessio Del Bue and Michael Bronstein.
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2021 - 2022 Barcelona
MSc
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering
- Specialization in Algebra, Geometry, and Discrete Mathematics.
- Thesis — Towards Multiparameter Persistent Homology.
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2020 - 2021 Barcelona
Postgraduate Diploma
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Financial Mathematics
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2015 - 2021 Barcelona
BSc
Universitat de Barcelona
Computer Science and Software Engineering
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2015 - 2021 Barcelona / Coventry
BSc
Universitat de Barcelona & University of Warwick
Mathematics
- Third-year exchange at the University of Warwick.
- Thesis — Functional Summaries of Persistence Diagrams for Time Series Analysis.