About Me

Welcome to my academic portfolio! I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, specializing in Bayesian statistics, security issues, and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.

Mario Chacón-Falcón is currently funded by the European Commission – NextGenerationEU, through Momentum CSIC Programme: "Develop Your Digital Talent"

Education

  • Ph.D. in Mathematics Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT) - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) 2024 - Present
  • M.S. in Logic, Computation and Artificial Intelligence Universidad de Sevilla (US) 2023 - 2024
  • B.S. in Mathematics Universidad de Sevilla (US) 2019 - 2023

Research Interests

  • Bayesian Methods
  • Decision Making
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Federated Learning
  • Multi-Agent Systems

Recent Updates

New Paper 2026

Privacy-preserving federated learning AdaBoost via knowledge distillation

Our research combining AdaBoost, Knowledge Distillation, and Federated Learning for robust, privacy-preserving distributed learning has been published in Knowledge-Based Systems!

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Oral Presentation April 2026

COML 2026 (InterCoML) — Prague

Oral presentation on Opponent-Aware Soft Q-Learning and served as discussant in Roundtable I on Adversarial, Risk-Aware Decision Making in Multi-Agent Systems at COST Action CA24136.

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Reading Group 2026

RL & Multi-Agent RL Reading Group

Co-organizing a reading group focused on Reinforcement Learning, MARL, and sequential decision-making following Murphy's Reinforcement Learning: An Overview.

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Paper 2025

BAM-SLDK in IOP Neuromorphic Computing & Engineering

Our paper introducing biologically inspired attention mechanisms with spiking learnable delayed kernel synapses is published in IOP NCE.