News and Jobs!!

I have moved to Barcelona, Spain!! After 12 wonderful and productive years in the US, first at MIT and then at Microsoft Research, Redmond , my family and I have decided to move back to Europe. At the end of November of 2007, I started my new job as Scientific Director of Multimedia at Telefonica Research (TID) in Barcelona. We are very excited about our new life in Spain, closer to the family and our roots.My return to Spain and the creation of the scientific teams at the Barcelona lab have caught the attention of the press. It is really great to be able to do top research in my home country.

Since March 2009, I am also Scientific Director of the Data Mining & User Modeling team at Telefonica Research in Madrid.

I am Technical Program Co-Chair of MIR 2010. If you work on Multimedia IR, please, consider sending a paper to the conference!

I have been selected as a 2009 Rising Talent by the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society.

Two recent papers have been nominated for Best Paper Award in MobileHCI 2009 and ACM Multimedia 2009!!

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Named a Rising Talent by the Women's Forum for Economy & Society. Deauville, France, October 2009!

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I am hiring! I have job openings in the areas of Sensed-Based Interaction, 3D, Recommendation Systems, Multimedia, Mobile Computing, HCI and Data Mining for User Modeling. I also have intern openings in all those areas all year long.

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