José María Viña Rebolledo, from Santiago de Compostela, Spain (EU).

Currently working in Amsterdam as a Data Scientist for Booking.com.

Fun stuff

Music from when we started the Quantum Music Festival.

Our funny contribution, that was echoed all over the world, to and old problem.

I enjoy talking about philosophy, science, art, and anything else.

Some works and publications

• An empirical performance evaluation of Distributed SQL Query Engines. Stefan van Wouw, José Viña, Dick Epema, Alexandru Iosup. ICPE '15 Proceedings of the 6th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, p. 123-131. doi: 10.1145/2668930.2688053  (PDF of the extended report).
  
  
• Simple Activity Recognition With Smartphone Sensors. A Data Analysis and Machine Learning exercise.  (PDF)
  
  
• Analysis of interest rates in Lending Club loans: dependency on risk factors. A Data Analysis exercise. (PDF)
  
  
• High-resolution 3-D imaging of living cells in suspension using confocal axial tomography.
  Olivier Renaud, Jose Viña, Yong Yu, Christophe Machu, Alain Trouvé, Hans Van der Voort, Bernard Chalmond, Spencer L. Shorte.  Biotechnology Journal. Vol 3, Issue 1, Jan. 2008, p. 53-62 doi: 10.1002/biot.200700188 (video).
  
  
• Colchitaxel, a coupled compound made from microtubule inhibitors colchicine and paclitaxel. Karunananda Bombuwala, Thomas Kinstle, Vladimir Popik, Sonal O. Uppal, James B. Olesen, Jose Viña, Carol A. Heckman. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2006; 2: 13. doi: 10.1186/1860-5397-2-13.
  
  
• Self-heating effects on the transition to a highly dissipative state at high current density in superconducting YBa₂Cu₃O_7-d thin films. J. Viña, M. T. González, M. Ruibal, S. R. Currás, J.A. Veira, J. Maza, F. Vidal. Phys. Rev. B, 68 224506 (2003). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.224506

• Contribution to the study of the electric transport in cuprate superconducting thin films: supercritical currents and paraconductivity. Ph.D. Thesis. ISBN 84-9720-180-2 (2003). arXiv:cond-mat/0305712v2.

• Normal-superconducting transition induced by high current densities in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-d melt-textured samples and thin films: Similarities and differences. M.T. González, J. Viña, S.R. Currás, J. Maza, F. Vidal. Phys. Rev. B, 68 054514 (2003). arXiv:cond-mat/0305020.