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## Nuria Oliver highlights the key role of artificial intelligence in solving humanity's main challenges

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The Ciutat de Castelló Chair of the Universitat Jaume I closes the 2021 lecture series with a talk by Nuria Oliver, winner of the Rei Jaume I 2021 Award in New Technologies, entitled "Research and innovation with artificial intelligence: my personal career".  
  
During her speech, Nuria Oliver stressed that artificial intelligence must play a key role in solving the main challenges facing humanity today, such as the ageing of the population and the fight against climate change and the sustainability of the planet.

Nuria Oliver also explained how artificial intelligence has contributed to improving decision-making to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by combining artificial intelligence with big data, which allows predictions to be made about population mobility.

Nuria Oliver is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, with First National Prize recognition (1994). She holds a PhD from MIT (2000) with the thesis: "Towards Perceptual Intelligence: Statistical Modeling of Human Individual and Interactive Behaviors". She is known for her work on computational models of human behaviour, human-computer interaction, intelligent user interfaces, mobile computing and big data for social good. On the other hand, she is the named inventor of 41 patents.

She is the first Spanish woman scientist to be named Distinguished Research Fellow of the Academy for Computing Machinery. She is a member of the European Academy and the fourth youngest woman in the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2018 she was named Engineer of the Year by the Colegio de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de España and received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Miguel Hernández. She is currently head of Data Science Research at Vodafone.

She is a regular contributor to the media and is passionate about the power of technology to improve the quality of life, both individually and collectively.

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