Awards and Honors

• King Jaume I Award in New Technologies, 2021
• Abie Technology Leadership Award by the AnitaB.org, 2021
• Winner of the 500k XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge sponsored by Cognizant, 2021
• Data Scientist of the Year, ESRI, Spain 2020
• "Woman to Follow" in the Technology section by "Mujeres a Seguir", Oct 2020
• Data Scientist of the Year Award by the Big Data Value Association and CeADAR
• Inducted to SIGCHI Academy, May 2019
• Forinvest award, Spanish Night of Finances, March 2019
• Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, Dec 2018
• Engineer of the Year by the Association of Professional Telecommunication Engineers of Spain, Nov 2018
• One of the 500 most influential women in Spain -- technology category-- by El Mundo, Nov 2018
• Top100 in Spain: Top10 in Academics and Scientists category, Oct 2018
• Member of the Academia Europaea, Oct 2018
• Honorary PhD by the University Miguel Hernandez, Oct 2018
• FIUM Award by the University of Murcia, June 2018
• Telecommunications Engineer of the Year by the Association of Professional Telecommunication Engineers of Valencia, May 2018
• Fellow of the ACM, Dec 2017
• Spanish 2016 Angela Ruiz Robles National Award in Computer Science
• Medal to Business and Social Impact by the Generalitat of Valencia, Oct 2017
• Diversity award by the EVAP, Oct 2017
• Named "IMPORTANTE" by Informacion of Alicante, Feb 2017
• Fellow of the IEEE, Jan 2017
• Winner of the European Digital Woman of the Year Award, Dec 2016
• Fellow of the European Association of Artificial Intelligence, Aug 2016
• Selected as one of 10 "LasTop100" Spanish female leaders in the Academics/Scientists category (2016)
• X Gaudi Gresol 2016 award to Excellence in Science and Technology
• Ada Byron 2016 award to Spanish Female professional in Technology
• Salva i Campillo award to the 2015 outstanding professional in Technology
• ACM Distinguished Scientist, Nov 2015
• ICT Woman of 2015, Catalan Government, Dec 2015
• ACM Ubicomp 2015 Best Paper Award
• IEEE Senior Member, Nov 2014
• ACM ICMI 2014 10-year Technical Impact Award, Nov 2014
• ACM Ubicomp 2014 Best Paper Award
• ACM Senior Member , Jan 2014
• ACM RecSys 2012 Best Paper Award
• Named a Rising Talent by the Women's Forum for Economy & Society . Deauville, France, October 2009
• Named one of the 100 Leaders of the Future . Capital Magazine. May 2009.
• MIT TR100 Young Innovator Award . MIT Technology Review's Award to the top 100 young innovators in the world. Sept 04.
• Special mention award by the Pattern Recognition Society for an outstanding publication. 2000
• Named one of the 40 most promising young Spanish persons by EL PAIS newspaper. Oct 99.
• Motorola Fellow (1997-1998)
• 'La Caixa Foundation' Fellow (1995-1997)
• Spanish First National Award of EECS graduates (1994)
• First Award for MS EECS graduates of ETSIT (UPM) (1994)
• First Award for BS EECS students of ETSIT (UPM) (1992)
• Siemens 'International Student Circle' Fellow (1992-1993)
• First National Prize of Telecommunications (EECS) Engineering (1994)
• First Prize of Telecommunications (EECS) Engineering of the ETSIT (1994)
• First Prize of Telecommunications (EECS) Engineering of the ETSIT (1992)