about/

Hi, I'm Carlos Mougan! :) (CV-pdf)

I am a Technical Staff of the AI Office (A3 AI Safety) at the European Commission.

I have worked around the different steps of the ML pipeline: data collection, data quality, preprocessing, modeling, and monitoring. At the moment, I research on model monitoring and AI alignment.

Before, I was a:

Since 2017, I have won numerous data science competitions (see later), ranked Top 2 of 2020 in DataScienceStackExchange, contributed to large-open source Python packages category_encoders and developed my own skshift

education/

PhD on Artificial Intelligence, 2024, University of Southampton

  • Thesis: Model Monitoring in the absence of ground truth data via feature attribution explanations.

MSc in Mathematical Modelling, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

BSc in Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

research/

How to Data in Datathons
Carlos Mougan, Richard Plant, Clare Teng, Marya Bazzi, Alvaro Cabregas Ejea, Ryan Sze-Yin Chan, David Salvador Jasin, Martin Stoffel, Kirstie Jane Whitaker, Jules Manser
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023

Monitoring Model Deterioration with Explainable Uncertainty Estimation via Non-parametric Bootstrap
Carlos Mougan, Dan Saattrup Nielsen
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Fairness Implications of Encoding Protected Categorical Attributes
Carlos Mougan, Jose Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri, Steffen Staab
Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Association for Computing Machinery, Montreal, Canada, 2023

Beyond Demographic Parity: Redefining Equal Treatment
Carlos Mougan, Laura State, Antonio Ferrara, Salvatore Ruggieri, Steffen Staab
First Workshop on AI meets Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology. Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023

Quantile Encoder: Tackling High Cardinality Categorical Features in Regression Problems
Carlos Mougan, David Masip, Jordi Nin, Oriol Pujol
Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, Springer International Publishing, 2021, pp. 168-180

Desiderata for Explainable AI in Statistical Production Systems of the European Central Bank
Carlos Mougan, Georgios Kanellos, Thomas Gottron
Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2021

The Role of Large Language Models in the Recognition of Territorial Sovereignty: An Analysis of the Construction of Legitimacy
Francisco Castillo-Eslava, Carlos Mougan, Alejandro Romero-Reche, Steffen Staab
European Workshop of Algorithmic Fairness, 2023

Talks & Presentations

The Lyceum Project - Athens
AI Alignment via Virtue Selected Feedback
June 2024
Royal Society for Spanish Math
Beyond Demographic Parity: Redefining Equal Treatment
January 2024
NeurIPS
How To Data in Datathons
December 2023
AI Ethics and Society - Montreal
Fairness Implications of Encoding Protected Attributes
September 2023
University of Stuttgart
Explanation Shift
June 2023
AAAI - Washington
Monitoring Model Deterioration with Explainable Uncertainty Estimation via Non-Parametric Bootstrap
Jan 2023
European Central Bank
Desiderata for Explainable AI at the European Central Bank
March 2022
International Finance Corporation (IFC) workshop on AI
Desiderata for Explainable AI at the European Central Bank
Jan 2022

Other Relevant Information

Data Science Stack Exchange:
Top 2 user in 2020 and top 20 all time Stack Exchange Profile
Open Source Python Package Developer:
Main contributor of category encoders, Main developer of skshift and explanationspace
Machine Learning Competitions:
1st BCG Gamma Datathon, 1st at Novartis 2021, 3rd Accenture Health Datathon, 2nd at SpainML Telco-churn and Bronze Medal at Kaggle IEEE-CIS Fraud Detection.
Volunteering with Refugees(Athens) - April 2017:
Elite Swimming Athlete 2013 -2017

Some Pictures