I am a computer scientist with over 20 years of research experience in Artificial Intelligence, Human Computer Interaction and Mobile Computing at MIT, Microsoft Research, as the first female Scientific Director at Telefonica R&D and the first Director of Research in Data Science at Vodafone globally. I am Chief Data Scientist at DataPop Alliance, Chief Scientific Advisor at the Vodafone Institute and Fellow at the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. I advise universities, governments and institutions like the European Commission and the World Economic Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.
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Nuria Oliver, PhD |
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Machine Learning and Data Mining, User Modeling and Recommender Systems, Perceptual Intelligence, Multimedia Data Analysis, Multi-modal approaches to multimedia, Mobile Computing, Wearable Physiological Monitoring, Smart Clothes, Computational Social Sciences, Social Network Analysis, Human Behavior Modeling, Action Understanding, Event Perception, Human Computer Interaction, Intelligent Interfaces, Intelligence Augmentation, Object Tracking, Perceptual Organization, Human Motion Analysis, Biological Vision, Racing, E-markets, Implications of Technology in Education and Health
Ph.D. (MIT, Spring '00)
Thesis: "Towards Perceptual Intelligence: Statistical Modeling of Human Individual and Interactive Behaviors"
MIT Media Lab
Work on machine learning, AI, computer vision, computational perception, wearable computers
My Ph.D. thesis in PDF format
S.M. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Honors: Best EECS graduate student of Spain
(Two Majors: Signal Processing and Computer Networks)
Master's Thesis in Computer Vision.
U.P.M. ( Technical University of Madrid, Spain), 1994
S.B. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
U.P.M. ( Technical University of Madrid, Spain ), 1992
Honors: Best EECS student of my school
Chief Data Scientist at Data-Pop Alliance
Big Data for Social Good
NYC, US, Nov 2016 - PresentDirector of Research in Data Science
Chief Scientific Advisor at Vodafone Institute
Berlin, Germany, March 2017 - Present
Fellow at the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering
Madrid, Spain, Dec 2018 - Present
Vodafone
London, UK, Jan 2017 - 2019
Scientific Director at Telefonica Research
Multimedia, HCI, Mobile Computing, Machine Learning, Data Mining & User ModelingBarcelona, Spain, Dec 2007 - Oct 2016Researcher at Microsoft Research RedmondRedmond, WA USA July 2000-Oct 2007Visiting Scientist at GMD FIRST
Theoretical work on Kernel Methods for Machine Learning
Berlin, Germany, April-May 1999
Research Engineer at Telefonica R&D
(Spanish major telecommunications company)
Madrid, Spain, 1994-95
Research Assistant Engineer at Siemens
Munich, Germany, July-Sept 1993
Research Assistant Engineer at Siemens
Munich, Germany, July-Sept 1992
CHI Academy Fellow 2018
Fellow at the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering 2018
Engineer of the Year Award 2018
Honorary PhD by the University Miguel Hernandez 2018
FIUM award by University of Murcia 2018
Fellow at the Academia Europaea 2018
ACM Fellow (2017)
IEEE Fellow (2017)
Medal to Social and Business Merit by the Government of Valencia 2017
Spanish Computer Science Award (Angela Ruiz Robles category) 2016
Fellow of the European Association of Artificial Intelligence (eurAI Fellow) 2016
Top100 Women Award (Academics/Scientists category) 2016
Gaudi Gresol Award to Excellence in Science and Technology 2016
Ada Byron Award Feb 2016
Distinguished Scientist by the ACM, Nov 2015
ICT Woman 2015 (by the Calatan Government)
ACM ICMI Ten Year Technical Impact Award (2014)
Senior Member of IEEE, 2014
Senior Member of ACM, 2013
" Women with Success " Featured as one of four successful Spanish female directors. Glamour Magazine. March 2015
Highlighted as a female director in technology. EL PAIS magazine. October 2012.
"13 most influential young women in Spain ". Mujer Hoy Magazine. January 2012.
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.
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 Engineering (EECS) (1994)
First School Prize of Telecommunications Engineering (EECS) . ETSIT. Univ. Politecnica Madrid. (1994)
First School Prize of Telecommunications Engineering (EECS). ETSIT. Univ. Politecnica Madrid (1992)
Regular Senior Program Committee and Program Committee member of a variety of conferences and journals in machine learning, intelligent interfaces, human-computer interaction, computer vision, multimodal interfaces, mobile computing and health (IUI, MobileHCI, NIPS, CHI, AAAI, IJCAI, NetMob, UCAMI, HealthNet, CVPR, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TCSVT, etc...)
Co-chair of 19 ACM / IEEE conferences since 2009
Advisor to several european universities, foundations, governments and institutions