Nuria Oliver#
| Membership Number: | 4657 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nuriaoliver.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Director of Research in Data Science - Vodafone (London and Spain)
- 2017 - present Chief Scientific Advisor - Vodafone Institute (Berlin, Germany)
- 2016 - present Chief Data Scientist - Data-Pop Alliance (New York and Boston, USA)
- 2007 - 2016 Scientific Director - Telefonica R&D (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2000 - 2007 Researcher - Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA, USA)
- 1995 - 2000 Research assistant - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA)
- 1994 - 1995 Software engineer - Telefonica R&D (Madrid, Spain)
- 1992 - 1993 International Student Circle Fellow / Intern - Siemens R&D (Munich, Germany)
Fields of Scholarship
- Artificial intelligence methods to model human behavior from data
- Development of intelligent interactive systems: smart rooms, cars, clothes, offices and mobile phones.
- Computational Social Sciences
- Big Data for Social Good
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2018 Honorary Doctorate from the University Miguel Hernandez (Spain)
- 2018 FIUM Award by the University of Murcia
- 2017 ACM Fellow
- 2017 Medal to Business and Social Impact by the Government of Valencia (Spain)
- 2017 IEEE Fellow
- 2016 Spanish National Computer Science Award (Angela Ruiz Robles category)
- 2016 European Digital Woman of the Year Award
- 2016 Fellow of the European Association of Artificial Intelligence
- 2016 Gaudi Gresol Award to Excellence in Science and Technology
- 2016 Ada Byron Award by University of Deusto (Spain)
- 2016 Salva i Campillo Award to the most outstanding technology professional in 2015
- 2009 Rising Talent by the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society
- 2004 MIT TR100 (today TR35) Young Innovator Award by MIT Technology Review
- 1994 La Caixa Foundation Fellow
- 1994 Spanish First National Prize of Telecommunication Engineers
- 1994 First Prize in Telecommunication Engineering by the ETSIT in the University Polytechnic of Madrid (UPM)
- 1992 - 1993 Siemens International Student Circle Fellow
