Awards and Honors

Nuria Oliver's honors recognize her contributions to computer science, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, and technology for social good.

Recent recognition

ICMI Ten-Year Technical Impact Award for the 2014 paper “Once upon a crime: towards crime prediction from demographics and mobile data”
Digital Transformation Minerva Award, INECO and the Spanish Ministry of Transportation
Trifermed Award for social impact
Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize 2023, presented in 2024 by Barcelona City Council and the Academia Europaea Barcelona Knowledge Hub

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, 2019
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
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
Spanish 2016 Angela Ruiz Robles National Award in Computer Science
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)