About the IAPP

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 the most cited female computer scientist in Spain, with her research having been cited by more than 8000 publications. She is well known for her work in computational models of human behavior, human computer interaction, mobile computing and big data for social good. Nuria graduated with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1994. She was awarded the Spanish First National Prize of Telecommunication Engineers in 1994. In 1995 she received a La Caixa fellowship to study at MIT, where she received her doctorate at the Media Lab in the area perceptual intelligence. In 2001, she joined Microsoft Research. 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. 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.