Nuria Oliver

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Nuria Oliver has been the Scientific Director for Multimedia in Telefónica I+D since the end of 2007. Prior to joining Telefonica, Nuria spent 12 years in the United States, first in Boston where she obtained a PhD at the MIT and then as a researcher in the prestigious Microsoft Research lab in Redmond (WA, USA).

Professional Career

• Nuria worked as a researcher for Microsoft Research in Redmond (WA, USA) where she spent over 7 years. At Microsoft Research, Nuria worked and led research projects in the areas of Perceptual Intelligence, Multimodal human behavior modeling, computer graphics, vision-based interfaces and, more recently, she started a new research area of 'wearable physiological monitoring on mobile phones'.

Academic Qualifications

• PhD with honors from the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Boston, USA)
• B.S./M.S. in Telecommunications Engineer from the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (1^st in class)

Awards and recognitions

• 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 (EECS) Engineering (1994)
• First Prize of Telecommunications (EECS) Engineering of the ETSIT (1994)
• First Prize of Telecommunications (EECS) Engineering of the ETSIT (1992)

Nuria holds over 20 US patents. She is the Conference Chair for ACM/IUI'09 and a member of the program committee of the main conferences in a variety of research areas (AAAI, IUI, ISCW, Ubicomp, IJCAI, MobileHCI, Pervasive Health, ICMI, CHI, etc..). Nuria is very passionate about the power that technology has in improving the quality of life of people. 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 in numerous newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations both in Spain and the US.

She is proficient in numerous foreign languages and she studied classical ballet for 13 years. Her hobbies include Formula Dodge race car driving, travelling, cinema, art, classical music, yoga, dance and swimming.

Link to webpage: http://www.nuriaoliver.com