Gustavo Patow
Web pages
Personal Info
I'm Full Professor (Catedrático) at the Departament d'Informàtica, Matemàtica Aplicada i Estadística, Universitat de Girona, SPAIN. I got my
PhD from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya under the supervision of
Xavier Pueyo and Alvar Vinacua
working on Inverse Rendering Problems.
Currently, I am the head of the Geometry and Graphics Group (GGG), part of the ViRVIG Research Center.
Career Breaks, Diverse Career Paths, and Major Life Event
In 2017, I experienced a major health event—sudden cardiac arrest—which required a period of recovery and reflection. This life-altering experience prompted a reassessment of my professional goals and research priorities. As a result, I made a considered transition from my previous field of Computer Graphics to Computational Neuroscience. While this represented a significant disciplinary shift, it also allowed me to bring a fresh perspective and a strong computational background to the study of brain function and disease. This change has since become a source of renewed motivation and has shaped a research path that is both personally meaningful and scientifically impactful.
You can see my (rather old) VRML essais!
Research
For more than 20 years I worked on Computer Graphics in general and Rendering Techniques and Procedural Modeling in particular. However, a few years back I decided to switch field to Computational Neuroscience, with the help of Prof. Dr. Gustavo Deco.
From some more information on this topic and my work in general, the reader is encouraged to visit my former publications page at ViRVIG or my (automatically updated) Google Scholar page.
Development Projects
I'm involved, either as advisor, either as collaborator, or as coder, in a number of projects. You can find some of them here (GitHub), and the older ones here.
Teaching
I lecture both undergraduate courses and Master courses. Also, I advise undergraduate final projects ("Treball de fi de Grau", or "PFC") and master thesis.
Also, I am the Coordinator of the Videogame Development and Design degree at UdG
Supervision
I currently have the oportunity to work with a few of the most talented students. They are:
PhD Students
- Facundo Roffet (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina). Co-advised with Claudio Delrieux.
- Albert Juncà
- David Aquilué Llorens (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). Co-advised with Gustavo Deco.
- Kenneth Alonso Muñoz
Former students
- Ismael Garcia (Master, UdG) - Co-advised with Mateu Sbert
- Jordi Marco (Master, UdG) - Co-advised with Eric Reinhard
- Alessandra Mosca (Master, Politecnico di Torino, III Facolta di Ingegneria, Master of science in Computer and communication networks, Italy)
- Oriol Pueyo Vallet (Master, UdG)
- Carles Creus Lopez (Master, UPC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Isaac Besora Vilardaga. Co-advised with Carlos Andujar (Master, UPC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Remei Ridorsa (Master, UdG)
- Santiago Barroso Juan (Master, UdG)
- Francisco Jose Cubero. Co-advised with Albert Mas (Master, UdG)
- Ferran Roure. Co-advised with Gonzalo Besuievsky (Master, UPC)
- Albert Juncà (Master, UPC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Mariano Trebino (Master, UdG), co-advised with Nuria Pelechano
- Ricard Galvany Mendez (Master, UdG, co-advised with Antonio Coelho)
- Judit Quintana Massana (Master, UdG)
- Jordi Gomara Cruz (Master, UdG)
- Albert Mas (PhD, UdG)
- Ismael Garcia (PhD, UdG)
- Francisco Gonzalez (PhD, UdG)
- Oriol Pueyo (PhD, UdG)
- David Muñoz Novoa (PhD, Co-advised with Gonzalo Besuievsky, UdG)
- Josep LLuis Fita (PhD, Co-advised with Gonzalo Besuievsky, UdG)
- Fabio Lorella Costa (PhD, Co-advised with José Azorín, Universidad Miguel Hernandez)
- Alejandro Cosín Ayerbe (PhD)
Other
By the way, everybody should have his own MURPHY law. Mine is:
Law: Given a system with all its variables but one under
strict control, such free variable will evolve in order to produce the
largest damage possible.
And it has its logical
Corollary: When a free variable in an otherwise totally
controlled system is only able to evolve in the positive direction
(i.e. only producing beneficial results), it will remain stationary
until further movement completely loses its meaning.
Work Address
Gustavo Ariel PATOW.ViRVIG-UdG.
Departament d'Informàtica, Matemàtica Aplicada i Estadística.
Universitat de Girona.
C/ de la Universitat de Girona, 6
Despatx 235, Edifici P-IV, Campus Montilivi.
17003 - Girona (Girona).
SPAIN
tel: (+34) 618 511065 (intern: 9456)
fax: (+34) 972 418792
email:
WWW: http://imae.udg.edu/~dagush
WAP: http://imae.udg.edu/~dagush/wap/