Ane Blazquez Garcia defends her PhD.
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Ane Blazquez Garcia defends her PhD.

Visual Intelligence guest researcher Ane Blazquez Garcia defends her PhD

Ane Blazquez Garcia, University of the Basque Country and the Ikerlan research institute, visited Visual Intelligence in the fall of 2021. Partially based on work conducted during this visit, she successfully defended her PhD thesis on July 27th 2022. Congratulations!

Visual Intelligence guest researcher Ane Blazquez Garcia defends her PhD

Ane Blazquez Garcia, University of the Basque Country and the Ikerlan research institute, visited Visual Intelligence in the fall of 2021.

Partially based on work conducted during this visit, she successfully defended her PhD thesis "Contributions to time series data mining towards the detection of outliers/anomalies" on July 27th 2022.

Congratulations, Ane, well done!

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