Mario Martínez-García

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mariomartgarcia@gmail.com

Hello! 👋 I am a Data Scientist at GOVOY, where I work on agentic AI, computer vision and optimization. I hold a PhD in Machine Learning from the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, supervised by Iñaki Inza and Jose A. Lozano, where my research focused on learning using privileged information (LUPI): leveraging features that are available during training but not at deployment time. During my PhD, I completed a research stay at École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) in Montreal under the supervision of Marco Pedersoli. Before that, I obtained my MSc in Data Science from the Open University of Catalonia and my BSc in Physics from the University of Murcia. I am currently also completing an MBA.

Interests: I work in applied AI 🤖, from agentic systems and computer vision to optimization, and keep a research interest in privileged information, knowledge distillation and multi-task learning. I am particularly interested in bringing these techniques into real products and decision-making in clinical and sports environments.

news

Oct 16, 2026 Paper accepted at Pattern Recognition!
Jan 12, 2026 I joined GOVOY as Data Scientist :rocket:
Jul 02, 2025 I successfully defended my PhD thesis!
Apr 01, 2025 Paper accepted at Knowledge-Based Systems!
Mar 07, 2025 I gave a talk at UPV-EHU in Donosti as part of the ISG Lecture Series

selected publications

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    Learning a Battery of COVID-19 Mortality Prediction Models by Multi-objective Optimization
    Mario Martı́nez-Garcı́a, Susana Garcı́a-Gutierrez, Rubén Armañanzas, and 3 more authors
    In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), 2022
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    Extending the learning using privileged information paradigm to logistic regression
    Mario Martı́nez-Garcı́a, Susana Garcı́a-Gutierrez, Lasai Barreñada, and 2 more authors
    Neurocomputing, 2024
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    Teacher privileged distillation: How to deal with imperfect teachers?
    Mario Martı́nez-Garcı́a, Iñaki Inza, and Jose A Lozano
    Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025
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    Privileged learning via a multi-task distilled approach
    Mario Martı́nez-Garcı́a, Jon Vadillo, Marco Pedersoli, and 2 more authors
    Pattern Recognition, 2026