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Nuria Oliver

Telefónica I+D, S.A.U.
Scientific Director
Multimedia and Data Mining & User Modeling

Torre Telefonica, Diagonal 00, Barcelona, Spain
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Phone:  +34 630 726 085

Biography


Nuria Oliver is currently the Scientific Director for the Multimedia and Data Mining & User Modeling Research Teams in Telefonica Research (Barcelona, Spain). She 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 November 2007, she was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. At the end of 2007, she returned to Spain to create and lead the Multimedia Scientific Team at Telefonica Research in Barcelona. Since March 2009, she is also the acting Scientific Director for the Data Mining & User Modeling Team in Telefonica Research. It is an exciting opportunity to do research in her own country.

Her research interests include mobile computing, multimedia data analysis, search and retrieval, smart environments, context awareness, statistical machine learning and data mining, artificial intelligence, health monitoring, social network analysis, computational social sciencies, and human computer interaction. She is currently working on the previous disciplines to build human-centric intelligent systems.

Nuria has written over 70 papers in international conferences, journals and book chapters. Her work has been widely recognized by the scientific community with over 2800 citations. Nuria has over 30 patent applications and granted patents. She is also in the program committee and a reviewer of the top conferences in her research areas (IJCAI, IUI, UMAP, ACM Multimedia, ICMI-MLMI, Interaccion, PervasiveHealth, MIR, LoCA, MMM, CVPR, Ubicomp, MobileHCI, ICCV, AAAI, etc...). She was program co-chair of IUI 2009 and of MIR 2010.

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. She has been named one of the '100 leaders of the future ' by Capital Magazine (May 2009) and one of the 'Generation XXI: 40 Spanish youngsters that will make news in the Third Millenium ' by EL PAIS (2000).

She is proficient in multiple foreign languages and she studied classical ballet for 13 years. Her hobbies include traveling, cinema, art, classical music, yoga, Formula Dodge racing, dance and swimming


Recent Publications


      

2010:

  • "User modeling for Telecommunication Applications: Experiences and Practical Implications",
    Hohwald, H., Frias-Martinez, E. and Oliver, N. (2010)
    Proceedings of ACM Int. Conf. on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP'2010), Hawaii, June 2010
  • "Measuring the Collective Potential of Populations from Dynamic Social Interaction Data",
    Cebrian, M., Lahiri, M., Oliver, N. and Pentland, S. (2010)
    Proceedings of IEEE THEMES workshop on Signal and Information Processing for Social Networks, Dallas, TX, March 2010
    Also published in a special issue in JSTSP on signal and information processing for social networks
  • "The Map Trap? An Evaluation of Map versus Text-based Interfaces for Location-based Mobile Search Services",
    Church, K., Neumann, J.,Cherubini, M. and Oliver, N. (2010),
    Proceedings of ACM Int. Conf. on World Wide Web (ACM WWW'10), Raleigh, NC, April 2010
  • "Social Tagging Revamped: Supporting the Users' Need of Self-promotion through Persuasive Techniques",
    Cherubini, M., Gutierrez, A., Oliveira, R. and Oliver, N. (2010),
    Proceedings ACM Int. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI'10), Atlanta, US, April 2010 Best paper award nominee
  • "SocialSearchBrowswer: A Novel Mobile Search and Information Discovery Tool",
    Church, K., Neumann, J., Cherubini, M. and Oliver, N. (2010),
    Proceedings ACM Int. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI'10), Hong Kong, China, February 2010

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2007:

  • "Health-OS: A Position Paper"
    Kirovski, D., Oliver, N., Sinclair, M. and Tan, D.S.
    Proceedings of First Int. Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments (HealthNet'07), 2007

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Professional Activities


      

Over the years, I have served in the Program Committee of a variety of conferences. Below are the most recent ones:

NetMob 2010

Program Committee
NetMob 2010

Program Committee
UMAP 2010 Program Committee
WWW 2010 Program Committee
SocialCom 2010 Program Committee
MobileHCI 2010 Associate Chair
Interaccion 2010 Program Committee
ICPR 2010 Program Committee
MIR 2010 Technical Program Co-Chair
IUI 2010 Program Committee
AMR 2009 Program Committee
ACM Multimedia 2009 Program Committee
ICMI-MLMI 2009 Program Committee
IUI 2009 Technical Program Co-Chair
International Workshop on Video 2009 Event Co-organizer
ICCV 2009 Program Committee
ACM MM 2009 Program Committee
IJCAI 2009 Program Committee
Interaccion 2009 Program Committee
UMAP 2009 Program Committee
LOCA 2009 Program Committee
AAAI-SpringSymp 2009 Program Committee
MMM 2009 Program Committee
PervasiveHealth 2009 Program Committee
AAAI 2008 Program Committee
CSTST 2008 Program Committee

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Research Interest


      
My research interests include mobile computing, multimedia data analysis, search and retrieval, smart environments, context awareness, statistical machine learning and data mining, artificial intelligence, health monitoring, social network analysis, computational social sciencies, and human computer interaction.
 
I am currently working on the previous disciplines to build human-centric intelligent systems.

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