Nuria Oliver Explained

Nuria Oliver
Birth Place:Alicante
Nationality:Spanish
Thesis Title:Towards Perceptual Computing: Statistical Modeling of Human Individual and Interactive Behaviors
Thesis Url:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69423
Thesis Year:2000
Doctoral Advisor:Alex Pentland

Nuria Oliver is a computer scientist. She is the director of the ELLIS Alicante Foundation, Chief Data Scientist at DataPop Alliance, and president of the board of trustees of UNED. Previously, she was an independent director on the board of directors of Bankia,[1] [2] Commissioner of the Presidency of Valencia for AI and COVID-19,[3] Director of Data Science Research at Vodafone,[4] Scientific Director at Telefónica and researcher at Microsoft Research. She holds a PhD from the Media Lab at MIT,[5] and is an IEEE Fellow,[6] ACM Fellow,[7] a member of the board of ELLIS,[8] and elected permanent member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain.[9] She is one of the most cited female computer scientists in Spain, with her research having been cited by more than 24,000 publications.[10] She is well known for her work in computational models of human behavior,[11] [12] human computer-interaction,[13] mobile computing[14] and big data for social good.

Biography

Nuria graduated with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1994.[15] She was awarded the Spanish First National Prize of Telecommunication Engineers in 1994.[16]

In 1995 she received a La Caixa fellowship[17] to study at MIT, where she received her doctorate at the Media Lab in the area perceptual intelligence. In 2000, she joined as a Research in the area of human-computer interfaces for Microsoft Research in Redmond USA and worked there until 2007.[18]

In 2007 she moved to Spain to work at Telefónica R&D in Barcelona as Director of Multimedia Research, the only female director hired at Telefónica R&D at the time.[19] [20] Her work focused on the use of the mobile phone as a sensor of human activity, and worked there until 2016.

In 2017 she joined Vodafone as Director of Data Science Research, and also was named the first Chief Data Scientist at DataPop Alliance,[21] an international non-profit organization created by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab and Overseas Development Institute devoted to leveraging Big Data to improve the world. She served as Chief Scientific Adviser at the Vodafone Institute[22] until 2024.

She is a member of the external advisory board of the ETIC department at the Pompeu Fabra University,[23] the LASIGE department at the University of Lisbon, the Informatics Department at King's College London,[24] the eHealth Center at the Open University of Catalonia[25] and Mahindra Comviva.[26] She is the spokesperson and a member of the High Level Advisory Committee to the Spanish Government on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. She is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Board[27] to the Innovation Agency of Valencia.

In 2018 she was elected permanent member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering.[28]

In 2019, she launched a successful bid for Alicante to host a research unit of ELLIS, a network of European AI research laboratories.[29]

In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was named Commissioner of the Presidency of Valencia for AI and COVID-19,[30] and led the data-science team for the Valencian Government during the crisis until March 2022.[31] She was responsible for designing and launching covid19impactsurvey, one of the largest citizen-science surveys in Spain, with over 700,000 participants.[32] [33] [34]

She was co-leader of ValenciaIA4COVID, the winning team of the $500,000 XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge, sponsored by Cogizant. This was the first Spanish team to win an XPrize competition.[35]

Awards and honors

Keynotes and scientific talks (selected)

Media appearances

See also

Notes and References

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  3. Web site: S.L . EDICIONES PLAZA . Puig nombra a Nuria Oliver comisionada de la Estrategia Valenciana de Inteligencia Artificial . 2020-08-28 . Valencia Plaza . es.
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  5. Web site: Alumni – MIT Media Lab. MIT Media Lab. 2017-03-01.
  6. News: 2017 Newly Elevated Fellows. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221110211/https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/2017_elevated_fellows.pdf. dead. December 21, 2016. Jan 2, 2017.
  7. Web site: ACM Fellow Nuria Oliver PhD. awards.acm.org. en. 2017-12-11.
  8. Web site: Organization. 2020-08-28. European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems.
  9. Web site: Excma. Sra. D.ª Nuria María Oliver Ramírez. www.raing.es. 2019-01-06.
  10. Web site: Google Scholar: Nuria Oliver. Dec 11, 2019.
  11. Web site: Models 2014: Keynote speakers. Oct 1, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140417025946/http://models2014.webs.upv.es/speakernotes.htm. April 17, 2014. Oct 21, 2014. live.
  12. A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 22. 8. 831–843. 2000. 10.1109/34.868684. Oliver. N.M.. Rosario. B.. Pentland. A.P..
  13. News: Innovators Under 35: Nuria Oliver, 33. 2004. MIT Technology Review. Oct 21, 2014.
  14. Web site: Ubicomp 2014. Best Papers. 2014. Oct 23, 2014.
  15. News: El País. Energía femenina. Feminine Energy. 1 July 2013. Oct 20, 2014.
  16. Web site: Las mujeres en la Universidad: evolución del personal de administración y servicios funcionario en la UPM. The women in the university: evolution of the personnel of the administration and services of UPM. Oct 21, 2014.
  17. Web site: Personas que mueven el mundo. Conoce sus historias. People who move the world. Know their stories. Oct 23, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160128234506/http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/ambitos/becas/campanadetv_es.html. January 28, 2016. dead.
  18. News: El País. Entrevista: Nuria Oliver . Interview: Nuria Oliver. May 13, 2001. Oct 20, 2014.
  19. News: Expansion. 28 January 2008. Nuria Oliver deja a Bill Gates por Alierta. Nuria Oliver leaves Bill Gates for Alierta. Oct 20, 2014.
  20. News: Telefónica repatría jóvenes investigadores. El País. Telefonica repatriates young researchers. Jan 24, 2008. Oct 21, 2014.
  21. Web site: Nuria Oliver Chief Data Scientist at DataPop Alliance. 7 November 2016 . Nov 15, 2016.
  22. Web site: Nuria Oliver . 2019-06-26 . Vodafone Institute . en-US.
  23. Web site: Government University Pompeu Fabra.
  24. Web site: King's College Industrial Board.
  25. Web site: Advisory Board - eHealth Center - UOC R&I. Catalunya. Universitat Oberta de. www.uoc.edu. en. 2018-06-16.
  26. Web site: Advisory Board Archives - Mahindra Comviva. Mahindra Comviva. en-US. 2018-06-16.
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  28. Web site: May 24, 2018 . Nuria Oliver e Íñigo Losada académicos de la Real Academia de Ingeniería . Real Academia de Ingeniería.
  29. Web site: 2019-12-11. Alicante será la sede española del centro europeo de investigación en Inteligencia Artificial. 2020-08-28. ELMUNDO. es.
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  33. Web site: 2020-08-19. El 40% de quienes tiene contacto con contagiados no se realiza ningún test. 2020-08-28. La Vanguardia. es.
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  39. Web site: Text vs Speech: A comparison of tagging input modalities for camera phones. 2010. Oct 23, 2014.
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  42. Web site: Awards. 2010. Oct 23, 2014.
  43. News: The exceptions that rule. Oct 30, 2012. El País. Oct 21, 2014.
  44. Web site: ICMI 2014 Awards. 2014. April 1, 2015.
  45. Book: Staiano. Jacopo. Oliver. Nuria. Lepri. Bruno. Rodrigo de Oliveira. Caraviello. Michele. Sebe. Nicu. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing . Money walks . 2014. 583–594. 1407.0566. 10.1145/2632048.2632074. 9781450329682. 8838620.
  46. Web site: Nuria Oliver ACM Senior Member. Dec 23, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160211012627/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/distinguished-2015. February 11, 2016. dead.
  47. Web site: Ubicomp 2015. Program with best papers. 2015. Sep 5, 2015.
  48. Web site: Bulletin #2 (2016) European Association for Artificial Intelligence. www.eurai.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20160911051739/https://www.eurai.org/node/166. 2016-09-11. 2016-08-30. live.
  49. News: Bulletin #2 (2016). Jan 2, 2017.
  50. Web site: BELGIAN MINISTER DE CROO RECOGNISES TOP GIRLS AND WOMEN IN TECH. Jan 2, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170103182414/http://digitalwomanaward.com/2016/12/12/belgian-minister-de-croo-recognises-top-girls-and-women-in-tech/. January 3, 2017. dead.
  51. News: Las 100 mujeres que lideran España. El Mundo. 2016-06-24.
  52. News: La 'Nit de les Telecomunicacions' premia a los mejores profesionales y proyectos TIC. Feb 18, 2016. La Vanguardia. Jun 9, 2016.
  53. Web site: Fallo del Jurado del Premio Ada Byron: Deusto concede el Premio a Nuria Oliver, Ingeniera de Telecomunicaciones, doctora por el MIT y Directora Científica de Telefónica I+D. Jury Decision of Jury of the Ada Byron Award: Deusto grants Nuria Oliver, Telecommunications Engineer, PhD from MIT and Scientific Director of Telefónica R&D. February 20, 2016.
  54. News: La directora científica de Telefónica I+D Nuria Oliver recibe un premio de Deusto a la mujer tecnóloga. Europa Press. February 20, 2016. The scientific director of Telefónica R&D Nuria Oliver receives award for women in technology from Deusto.
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  57. News: La alicantina Nuria Oliver, Premio Nacional de Informática 2016. Diario Información. 2017-09-09.
  58. Web site: Nuria Oliver, Honoris Causa Doctor by the UMH. Diario Información. August 2017 . Aug 8, 2017.
  59. Web site: Official Bulletin of the Valencian Government 815 / 09.10.2017. Oct 10, 2017.
  60. Web site: Nuria Oliver. Member profiles. Academia Europaea. 2020-10-08.
  61. Web site: La ingeniera alicantina Nuria Oliver, nombrada "Data Scientist" del año. INFORMACION. www.diarioinformacion.com. 7 September 2019 . es. 2019-09-14.
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  63. Web site: NURIA OLIVER RAMÍREZ . 2024-01-19 . Fundación PRJI . es-ES.
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  68. Web site: Keynote Speaker: Dr Nuria Oliver. Oct 23, 2014.
  69. Web site: EUSIPCO 2011. Oct 23, 2014.
  70. Web site: NIPS 2011 Big Learning. 2011. Oct 23, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033510/http://www.bestechvideos.com/2012/02/22/nips-2011-big-learning-algorithms-systems-tools-workshop-towards-human-behavior. March 4, 2016. dead.
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  81. Web site: Para todos La 2 - Nuria Oliver. For Everyone : Nuria Oliver. Oct 1, 2010. Oct 21, 2014.
  82. Web site: La Armada Invisible: Nuria Oliver at TEDxRamblas. . The Invisible Army: Nuria Oliver at TEDxRamblas. 2012. Oct 23, 2014.
  83. Web site: Nuria Oliver, experta en Inteligencia Artificial, en 'Tiempo de verano'. Nuria Oliver, Artificial Intelligence Expert, in 'Summer Time'. Aug 16, 2012. Oct 23, 2014.
  84. Web site: My cellphone, my partner. . May 17, 2013. Oct 23, 2014.
  85. News: Nuria Oliver: what big data and the Mexican pandemic taught us. WIRED UK. October 17, 2013. Oct 21, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141210000514/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/17/nuria-oliver. December 10, 2014. dead.
  86. News: Combating global epidemics with big mobile data. September 5, 2013. Oct 21, 2014. The Guardian.
  87. Web site: Researchers Test Personal Data Market to Find Out How Much Your Information is Worth. 2014. Oct 23, 2014.
  88. News: Your personal data is worth less than a latte, according to...you. 2014. Oct 23, 2014.
  89. News: Mobile Phone Data Can Help Predict Crime a Month in Advance. Motherboard. Sep 19, 2014. Oct 21, 2014.
  90. News: Datos de móviles predicen en qué zona de Londres sucederá un crimen. El País. Mobile data predicts the location of crimes which in London. Sep 21, 2014. Oct 21, 2014.
  91. News: Big 'Mobile Phone' data predicts crimes before they happen. Silicon Angle. Sep 22, 2014. Oct 21, 2014.
  92. News: Ebola: Can big data analytics help contain its spread?. Oct 14, 2014. BBC News. Oct 21, 2014.
  93. News: Nuria Oliver : "Mirem el mòbil constantment perquè podem tenir recompensa". Jan 4, 2015. Jan 21, 2015. ARA.
  94. News: Nuria Oliver : "Mujeres con exito". Mar 1, 2015. Sep 5, 2015. Glamour.
  95. News: Predecir en un 70% un crimen futuro usando 'big data'. Jan 21, 2015. El Mundo. Jan 21, 2015.
  96. News: Nothing in excess; including technology. June 1, 2015. Barcelona Metropolis. Sep 4, 2015.
  97. News: El movil muda de piel. Aug 23, 2015. El PAIS. Sep 5, 2015.
  98. News: Next thing your phone may detect: boredom. Sep 2, 2015. NBC News. Jan 2, 2016.
  99. News: Your Smartphone Can Tell If You're Bored. Sep 2, 2015. MIT Technology Review. Sep 4, 2015.
  100. News: Your Phone Can Tell When You're Bored. Sep 3, 2015. Fortune Magazine. Jan 2, 2016.
  101. News: Nuria Oliver. Aug 4, 2015. RNE. Dec 5, 2015.
  102. News: Nuria Oliver. Dec 7, 2015. El PAIS. Dec 5, 2015.
  103. News: Cazador de cerebros. Oct 22, 2016. RTVE. Nov 15, 2016.
  104. News: Nuria Oliver: Cuestionar el statu quo. Martin Valbuena. Cristina. 2017-02-20. El Periódico. 2017-03-01. es.
  105. Web site: 2019-12-27. Nuria Oliver, una mente brillante tras la inteligencia artificial. 2020-08-28. La Vanguardia. es.
  106. Web site: 2020-01-04. Las mujeres de la nueva década- Nuria Oliver - Lo sabe (casi) todo sobre la relación entre humanos y ordenadores.. 2020-08-28. ELMUNDO. es.
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