Continuem amb les xerrades commemoratives del Cinquantenari dels estudis de Matemàtiques en la Universitat de València. La següent serà el dilluns 27 de febrer, a les 11 hores, al Saló de Graus de la Facultat de Matemàtiques amb la conferència de Nuria Oliver “Human Behavior Modeling from (Big) Data”.
Continuem amb les xerrades commemoratives del Cinquantenari dels estudis de Matemàtiques en la Universitat de València. La següent serà el dilluns 27 de febrer, a les 11 hores, al Saló de Graus de la Facultat de Matemàtiques amb la conferència de Nuria Oliver “Human Behavior Modeling from (Big) Data”.
Human Behavior Modeling and Understanding is a key challenge in the development of intelligent systems. In my talk I will describe a few of the projects that I have carried out over the course of the past 20 years to address this challenge. In particular, I will give an overview of my work on Smart Rooms (real-time facial expression recognition and visual surveillance), Smart Cars (driver maneuver recognition), Smart Offices (multi-modal office activity recognition), Smart Mobile Phones (boredom inference) and finally a Smart World (crime prediction). I will conclude my talk highlighting opportunities, challenges and lessons learned that could be helpful to researchers and practitioners in the area.
Nuria Oliver is Chief Data Scientist at Data-Pop Alliance. She holds a PhD from MIT on perceptual intelligence. She has over 20 years of research experience, at MIT, at Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA) and as the first female Scientific Director at Telefonica R&D (Barcelona, Spain). Her work on computational human behavior modeling, human-computer interaction, Mobile computing and Big Data analysis, particularly applied for Social Good, is internationally
known with over 150 scientific articles in international conferences and journals, cited over 10400 times and with several best paper awards and nominations. She is co-inventor of 40 filed patents and a frequent keynote speaker in international conferences.
She is the first Spanish female computer scientist named a Distinguished Scientist by the ACM, an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the European Association of Artificial Intelligence.
Her work has received many international awards, such as the MIT TR100 (today TR35) Young Innovator Award (2004), and the Gaudí Gresol award to Excellence in Science and Technology (2016). She has been selected as one of the “top 9 female technology directors” in Spain by EL PAIS (2012), one of the “100 leaders for the future” by Capital (2009), a Rising Talent by the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society (2009) and one of “40 youngsters with great potential in Spain” by EL PAIS (1999), among others. Her passion is to improve the quality of life of people, both individually and collectively, through technology. She also has great interest for scientific outreach and to inspire new generations –and particularly girls—to pursue careers in technology. Therefore, she is a frequent collaborator with the media and she gives talks both to the general public and especially to thousands of teenagers.
