Alejandro Dopico
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Curriculum Vitae

PhD Researcher in Frugal AI | Continual & Federated Learning. Based in A Coruña, Spain.

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Experience

Mar 2025 – present

PhD Researcher (FPI)

LIDIA Group, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

Research on frugal AI methods (continual, federated, few-shot learning) for resource-constrained systems. Development of adaptive learning modules within the EU PILLAR-Robots project.

Mar 2026 – May 2026

Research Stay (Visiting Researcher)

INESC TEC, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Research stay with João Gama (University of Porto) and Pedro Henriques Abreu (University of Coimbra). Collaboration on deep learning and continual learning for resource-efficient settings.

Jan 2024 – Feb 2025

Research Support Technician (MSc Internship)

LIDIA Group, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

Developed class-incremental learning models for dynamic environments within the PILLAR-Robots project. Work evolved into current PhD research on Frugal AI.

Oct 2022 – Jun 2023

AI Software Developer

Cinfo Company, A Coruña, Spain

Designed and optimized deep learning models (YOLO, SSD) for automated sports production. Integrated C++ real-time inference with Python-based training pipelines.

Education

Mar 2025 – present

PhD in Computer Science

University of A Coruña (UDC)

Funded PhD (FPI predoctoral contract, Spanish Ministry of Science) on Frugal and Sustainable AI (continual, federated, few-shot learning).

Sep 2023 – Feb 2025

MSc in Artificial Intelligence

University of A Coruña (MIA-UDC)

Thesis: Efficient Single-Step Framework for Incremental Class Learning

Sep 2019 – Jun 2023

BSc in Computer Science

University of A Coruña

Thesis: Object detection for sports images

Publications

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Teaching

Undergraduate and Master’s courses at UDC and UIMP, plus supervised thesis work.

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Awards

Skills

ProgrammingPython, SQL, C++, Shell

Machine LearningPyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, OpenCV, HuggingFace

Tools / InfrastructureDocker, Git, MLFlow, DVC, CI/CD, AWS (EC2, S3)

ResearchContinual Learning, Federated Learning, Frugal AI, Edge AI, Computer Vision