Juan Elenter

Ph.D. Candidate
University of Pennsylvania

elenter [AT] seas.upenn.edu

Bio

> I'm a 2nd year Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, where I mostly think about optimization theory, signal processing and machine learning with Prof. Ribeiro.

Before graduate school, I spent some time at Stanford's Kundaje Lab, working on chromatin accessibility prediction and genomic motif discovery. I was also a summer intern at CERN, contributing to the CMS Open Data initiative with Dr. Lassila-Perini.

I'm originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, where I obtained a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from UdelaR . During my undergrad I was a signal processing intern at ProteanTecs , a chip predictive maintenance start-up, and before that, I was a software developer at IBM .

3401 Walnut, Room 405b
Philadelphia, PA, 19104

Publications

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
indicates equal contribution.

Neural Networks with Quantization Constraints.

Ignacio Hounie*, Juan Elenter*, Alejandro Ribeiro

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2023.

A Lagrangian Duality Approach to Active Learning

Juan Elenter, Navid NaderiAlizadeh, Alejandro Ribeiro

Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.

Neural Networks with Quantization Constraints.

Ignacio Hounie*, Juan Elenter*, Alejandro Ribeiro

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2023.

A Lagrangian Duality Approach to Active Learning

Juan Elenter, Navid NaderiAlizadeh, Alejandro Ribeiro

Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.

Graph Neural Networks for genome enabled prediction of complex traits.

Juan Elenter, Ignacio Hounie, Guillermo Etchebarne,María Inés Fariello, Federico Lecumberry

Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics, CSHL, 2021.

Projects

ATAC-seq analysis and motif discovery
@ Stanford, KundajeLab
Undergrad Capstone Project: Prediction of complex traits in agriculture.
@ UdelaR, FarielBerry Lab
I find this case very confusing, and have not thoroughly checked the result. R.A.Fisher
CMS Open Data Initiative
@ CERN, CMS

Vitæ

Full Resume in PDF.

Miscelaneous

Some stuff I like about my country.

Mate: 1/2 Moncayo + 1/2 Baldo
My only real conversation is with this green gourd. Julio Cortázar
The uruguayan
We're kind of chill, obsessed with soccer, skeptical of authority and fixated on social welfare.
La Negra Tomasa
The best pizza in Uruguay, provably.
Jorge Drexler
No le hagas caso a tanto misterio
vos ya sabés la verdad
que no hay nada peor para esta seriedad
que tomársela en serio.
Asado
Typical sunday meal at family gatherings.
Murga
Asaltantes Con Patentes 2013

Water is my natural environment.


Involuntarily drinking water in Punta Ballena.

Glassy morning in one of my favourite uruguayan spots.

Involuntarily drinking frozen, cristalyzed water.

West Santa Lucia River by the way.

Me and my uncle Ernesto, with whom I crossed the Atlantic in 2016.

In 2013, while playing for Uruguay's U-17 national team I lost 3-23 to the US.
The blueprint for this website can be found in this GitHub repo. Feel free to use it.