Since the end of Nov. 2007, I am the Scientific Director for the Multimedia Research Team at Telefonica Research in Barcelona, Spain. Since March 2009, I am also the acting Scientific Director for the Data Mining & User Modeling Team at Telefonica Research in Madrid, Spain.
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Nuria Oliver, PhD |
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nuriao at tid.es |
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+34 630 726 085 |
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Machine Learning and Data Mining, User Modeling, Perceptual Intelligence, Multimedia Data Analysis, Multi-modal approaches to multimedia, Mobile Computing, Wearable Physiological Monitoring, Smart Clothes, Computational Social Sciences, Social Network Analysis, Human Behavior Modeling, Action Understanding, Event Perception, Human Computer Interaction, Intelligent Interfaces, Intelligence Augmentation, Object Tracking, Perceptual Organization, Human Motion Analysis, Biological Vision, Racing, E-markets, Implications of Technology in Education and Health
Ph.D. (MIT, Spring '00)
Thesis: "Towards Perceptual Intelligence: Statistical Modeling of Human Individual and Interactive Behaviors"
MIT Media Lab
Work on machine learning, AI, computer vision, computational perception, wearable computers
My Ph.D. thesis in PDF format
S.M. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Honors: Best EECS graduate student of Spain
(Two Majors: Signal Processing and Computer Networks)
Master's Thesis in Computer Vision.
U.P.M. ( Technical University of Madrid, Spain), 1994
S.B. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
U.P.M. ( Technical University of Madrid, Spain ), 1992
Honors: Best EECS student of my school
Scientific Director at Telefonica R&D
Multimedia, Data Mining & User ModelingBarcelona, Spain, Dec 2007 - currentResearcher at Microsoft Research RedmondRedmond, WA USA July 2000-Oct 2007Visiting Scientist at GMD FIRST
Theoretical work on Kernel Methods for Machine Learning
Berlin, Germany, April-May 1999
Research Engineer at Telefonica R&D
(Spanish major telecommunications company)
Madrid, Spain, 1994-95
Research Assistant Engineer at Siemens
Munich, Germany, July-Sept 1993
Research Assistant Engineer at Siemens
Munich, Germany, July-Sept 1992
Named one of the 100 Leaders of the Future. Capital Magazine. May 2009.
TR100 Young Innovator Award. MIT Technology Review's Award to the top 100 young innovators in the world. Sept 04.
Named one of the 40 most promising young Spanish persons by EL PAIS newspaper. Oct 99.
Motorola Fellow (1997-1998)
'La Caixa Foundation' Fellow (1995-1997)
Spanish First National Award of EECS graduates (1994)
First Award for MS EECS graduates of ETSIT (UPM) (1994)
First Award for BS EECS students of ETSIT (UPM) (1992)
Siemens 'International Student Circle' Fellow (1992-1993)
First National Prize of Telecommunications Engineering (EECS) (1994)
First School Prize of Telecommunications Engineering (EECS) . ETSIT. Univ. Politecnica Madrid. (1994)
First School Prize of Telecommunications Engineering (EECS). ETSIT. Univ. Politecnica Madrid (1992)
Regular reviewer and Program Committee member of a variety of conferences and journals in machine learning, intelligent interfaces, human-computer interaction, computer vision, multimodal interfaces, mobile computing and health (IUI, MobileHCI, NIPS, CHI, AAAI, UCAMI, HealthNet, CVPR, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TCSVT, etc...)
Technical Program Chair for IUI 2009 (with Dan Weld)
Technical Program Chair of MIR 2010 (with Apostol Natsev)