Nuria Oliver

Nuria Oliver
Born Alicante.[1]
Nationality Spanish
Fields

[2]

Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Microsoft Research
Telefonica
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Thesis Towards Perceptual Computing: Statistical Modeling of Human Individual and Interactive Behaviors (2000)
Doctoral advisor Prof. Alex Pentland

Nuria Oliver is a computer scientist. She is Scientific Director at Telefónica. She holds a Ph.D. from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is one of the most cited female computer scientist in Spain, with her research having been cited by more than 9000 publications.[2] She is well known for her work in computational models of human behavior,[3][4] human computer-interaction,[5] mobile computing[6][7] and big data for social good[8][9][10]

Biography

Nuria graduated with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1994.[11] She was awarded the Spanish First National Prize of Telecommunication Engineers in 1994.[12]

In 1995 she received a La Caixa fellowship[13] to study at MIT, where she received her doctorate at the Media Lab in the area perceptual intelligence. In 2001, she joined Microsoft Research.[1]

In 2004 she was named one of the top 100 innovators under 35 (TR100, today TR35) by MIT Technology Review, based on her work in intelligent human-computer interfaces.[5][14]

After twelve years in the US, she left Microsoft in 2008 to join Telefonica in Barcelona as Director of Multimedia Research, the only female director hired at Telefonica R&D at the time.[15][16]

She was named a Rising Talent by the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society in 2009.[17][18]

In 2009, she was selected as one of the "100 future leaders who will design Spain in the next decades" by El Capital Magazine.[19]

She was profiled as one of nine female Spanish leaders in technology in 2012 by the Spanish newspaper El País.[11][20]

In 2013 she received the Senior Member Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)[21] and in 2014 she received the IEEE Senior Member Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).[22]

She has received a best paper award for scientific publications at ACM RecSys 2012,[23] in ACM Ubicomp 2014 [6][24] and in ACM Ubicomp 2015,[25] and best paper award nominations for publications at ACM MobileHCI 2009,[26] ACM Multimedia 2009[27] and ACM CHI 2010, among others.[28][29]

In 2014, she received the ACM ICMI Ten Year Technical Impact Award for her work on layered graphical models of human behavior[30]

In 2015 she received the Distinguished Scientist Award by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), being the first Spanish female computer scientist to receive this award.[31]

Keynotes and scientific talks (selected)

IJCAI 2001: Live demo with Eric Horvitz of a context aware office activity recognition system during Bill Gates keynote speech at IJCAI 2001.[32]

TTI Vanguard 2006: Invited Speaker.[33]

CICV 2010 IEEE workshop: Plenary speaker, "Research Challenges and Opportunities in Multimedia: a Human Centric Perspective"[34]

UCVP 2011: Keynote speaker[35]

EUSIPCO 2011: Keynote speaker, "Urban Computing and Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges"[36]

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems & Tools Workshop: Keynote speaker, "Towards Human Behavior Understanding from Pervasive Data: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead"[37]

European Wireless 2014: Keynote speaker, "Small devices for big impact"[7]

ACM/IEEE Models 2014: Keynote speaker, "Towards data-driven models of human behavior"[3]

NTTS 2015 (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics): Keynote speaker, "Big Mobile Data for Official Statistics"[38]

IEEE Int Conf on Data Science and Advanced Analytics 2015 (IEEE DSAA): Keynote speaker, "Towards data-driven models of human behavior"[39]

Media appearances

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Entrevista: Nuria Oliver" [Interview: Nuria Oliver]. El País. May 13, 2001. Retrieved Oct 20, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Google Scholar: Nuria Oliver". Retrieved Nov 2, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Models 2014: Keynote speakers". Oct 1, 2014. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ "A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions". 2000. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Innovators Under 35: Nuria Oliver, 33". MIT Technology Review. 2004. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Ubicomp 2014. Best Papers". 2014. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Keynote Speakers". Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  8. 1 2 "Nuria Oliver: what big data and the Mexican pandemic taught us". WIRED UK. October 17, 2013. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  9. 1 2 "Combating global epidemics with big mobile data". The Guardian. September 5, 2013. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  10. 1 2 "Mobile Phone Data Can Help Predict Crime a Month in Advance". Motherboard. Sep 19, 2014. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  11. 1 2 "Energía femenina" [Feminine Energy]. El País. 1 July 2013. Retrieved Oct 20, 2014.
  12. ↑ "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] (PDF). Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Personas que mueven el mundo. Conoce sus historias" [People who move the world. Know their stories]. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  14. 1 2 "Una española en la cima digital" [A Spaniard at the digital peak]. El Pais. Sep 24, 2004. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Nuria Oliver deja a Bill Gates por Alierta" [Nuria Oliver leaves Bill Gates for Alierta]. Expansion. 28 January 2008. Retrieved Oct 20, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Telefónica repatría jóvenes investigadores" [Telefonica repatriates young researchers]. El País. Jan 24, 2008. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Rising Talents Initiative aims to distinguish highly talented young women" (PDF). 2012. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Rising Talents: News from the Network". July 30, 2014. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  19. ↑ "100 lideres del futuro" [100 leaders of the future]. 2009. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  20. ↑ "The exceptions that rule". El País. Oct 30, 2012. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  21. ↑ "Nuria Maria Oliver ACM Senior Member". Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  22. ↑ "Nuria Oliver IEEE Senior Member". Retrieved Sep 5, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Awards". 2010. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  24. ↑ "Money Walks: A Human-Centric Study on the Economics of Personal Mobile Data". 2014. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  25. ↑ "Ubicomp 2015. Program with best papers". 2015. Retrieved Sep 5, 2015.
  26. ↑ "Text vs Speech: A comparison of tagging input modalities for camera phones" (PDF). 2010. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  27. ↑ "ACM Multimedia 2009". 2009. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  28. ↑ "Social Tagging Revamped:Supporting the Users' Need of Self-promotion through Social Filtering" (PDF). 2010. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  29. ↑ "Social Tagging Revamped:Supporting the Users' Need of Self-promotion through Social Filtering". 2010. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  30. ↑ "Awards". 2014. Retrieved April 2015.
  31. ↑ "Nuria Oliver ACM Senior Member". Retrieved Dec 23, 2015.
  32. ↑ "Bill Gates to Keynote International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence". 2001. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  33. ↑ "NextGens Technologies Speaker's Biographies". 2006. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  34. ↑ "CICV 2010 Speakers". Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  35. ↑ "Keynote Speaker: Dr Nuria Oliver". Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  36. ↑ "EUSIPCO 2011". Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  37. ↑ "NIPS 2011 Big Learning". 2011. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  38. ↑ "Keynote Speakers". Retrieved April 2015.
  39. ↑ "Keynote Speakers". Retrieved Dec 2015.
  40. ↑ "Boletín Oficial Senado de España" [Official Bulletin of the Spanish Senate] (PDF). December 27, 1999. Retrieved Oct 20, 2014.
  41. ↑ "PROGRAMACIÓN" [TV schedule]. ABC. Jan 9, 2005. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  42. ↑ "Un programa de entrevistas es una necesidad en una televisión pública" [An interviews program is a necessity in public television]. El País. May 13, 2007. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  43. ↑ "Viaje al centro de Microsoft" [Voyage to the center of Microsoft]. El País. Jan 22, 2006. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  44. ↑ "Casa de Su Majestad el Rey de España" [House of His Majesty the King of Spain]. May 7, 2008. Retrieved Oct 20, 2014.
  45. ↑ "Para todos La 2 - Nuria Oliver" [For Everyone : Nuria Oliver]. Oct 1, 2010. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  46. ↑ "La Armada Invisible: Nuria Oliver at TEDxRamblas" [The Invisible Army: Nuria Oliver at TEDxRamblas]. 2012. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  47. ↑ "Nuria Oliver, experta en Inteligencia Artificial, en 'Tiempo de verano'" [Nuria Oliver, Artificial Intelligence Expert, in 'Summer Time']. Aug 16, 2012. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  48. ↑ "My cellphone, my partner". May 17, 2013. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  49. ↑ "Researchers Test Personal Data Market to Find Out How Much Your Information is Worth". 2014. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  50. ↑ "Your personal data is worth less than a latte, according to...you". 2014. Retrieved Oct 23, 2014.
  51. ↑ "Datos de móviles predicen en qué zona de Londres sucederá un crimen" [Mobile data predicts the location of crimes which in London]. El País. Sep 21, 2014. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  52. ↑ "Big 'Mobile Phone' data predicts crimes before they happen". Silicon Angle. Sep 22, 2014. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  53. ↑ "Ebola: Can big data analytics help contain its spread?". BBC News. Oct 14, 2014. Retrieved Oct 21, 2014.
  54. ↑ "Nuria Oliver : "Mirem el mòbil constantment perquè podem tenir recompensa"". ARA. Jan 4, 2015. Retrieved Jan 21, 2015.
  55. ↑ "Nuria Oliver : "Mujeres con exito"". Glamour. Mar 1, 2015. Retrieved Sep 5, 2015.
  56. ↑ "Predecir en un 70% un crimen futuro usando 'big data'". El Mundo. Jan 21, 2015. Retrieved Jan 21, 2015.
  57. ↑ "Nothing in excess; including technology". Barcelona Metropolis. June 1, 2015. Retrieved Sep 4, 2015.
  58. ↑ "El movil muda de piel". El PAIS. Aug 23, 2015. Retrieved Sep 5, 2015.
  59. ↑ "Next thing your phone may detect: boredom". NBC News. Sep 2, 2015. Retrieved Jan 2, 2016.
  60. ↑ "Your Smartphone Can Tell If You're Bored". MIT Technology Review. Sep 2, 2015. Retrieved Sep 4, 2015.
  61. ↑ "Your Phone Can Tell When You're Bored". Fortune Magazine. Sep 3, 2015. Retrieved Jan 2, 2016.
  62. ↑ "Nuria Oliver". RNE. Aug 4, 2015. Retrieved Dec 5, 2015.
  63. ↑ "Nuria Oliver". El PAIS. Dec 7, 2015. Retrieved Dec 5, 2015.
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