Nuria Oliver's Short Bio
Nuria Oliver received the
BSc (honors) and
MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
from the ETSIT at the Universidad Politecnica
of Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. She received
her PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
Cambridge, MA, in June 2000. From July 2000 until October 2007, she
was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. In November
2007, she returned to Spain to create a research group in the
scientific team of Telefonica R&D in Barcelona. It is an exciting
opportunity to do research in her own country. Her research
interests include smart environments, context awareness, statistical
machine learning, artificial intelligence, health monitoring and
human computer interaction. She is currently working on the previous
disciplines to build computational models of human behavior via
perceptually intelligent systems. Her dream is to build computers
that are able to sense their environment and
users, recognize what they are perceiving and react
accordingly. She believes in the power of technology to empower and
increase the quality of life of people. She has received a number of
awards, including MIT’s ‘TR100 Young Innovators Award’ (2004) and
the First Spanish Award of EECS graduates (1994). Besides her
scientific publications, she is very interested in making science
available to the general public. She has been a technology writer
for Tecno2000 magazine and ‘El Pais’
newspapers, among others. Her work has been featured on multiple
newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations both in Spain and the
US.
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