Focus Period Linköping University 2026
Senior Data Scientist
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (United Kingdom)
Samuel Pinilla (S’17) received the B.S. degree (cum laude) in Computer Science in 2014, the B.S. degree in Mathematics, and the M.S degree in Mathematics from Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia in 2016 and 2017, respectively. His Ph.D. degree from the Department of the Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. He is a senior data scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom. In the past, Dr. Pinilla held Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher positions at Tampere University 2020-2021 and worked as a fellow research associate at The University of Manchester 2021-2022. His research interests focus on the areas of high-dimensional structured signal processing, machine learning, scalable AI, and (non)convex optimization methods. Dr. Pinilla is the recipient of the Eloy Valenzuela Prize for his doctoral studies, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing top 3% Paper Recognition in 2023.