Media Impact & Invited Talks
- Paper “Colouring Epidemic Risk Maps using Mobile Data” featured in Comunidad de Madrid, Noticias de la Ciencia and Europa Press (1/11/2022)
- My paper on the study of the effect of COVID-19 in the telecommunication network was features in The Telegraph, One in 10 inner London residents fled the capital during lockdown, mobile phone data shows, (28/10/2020)
- Invited Talk: “Modelado de epidemias con datos de movilidad urbana”, part of La revolución de los algoritmos en el campo de la medicina, organized by Data Science Spain & IoT Analytics Spain (29/02/2020)
- My work on Modeling Migrations caused by Climate Change has been featured in the printed and online version of Muy Interesante magazine (June 2018, Only in Spanish) PDF
- I was interviewed by El Pais (spanish newspaper) regargind the application of cell phones to the chracterization of migrations: “Los Moviles Predicen Las Migraciones”, El Pais, July 5th 2018
- My research in using cell phone traces to model virus spreading was featured in the Technological Section of El Pais: “La Vacuna contra las Epidemias se llama Big Data”, El Pais, February 20th 2018
- Demography Today 2017- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Invited Talk. Big Data for Social Good: Modeling Epidemics and Migrations from a Telco Perspective
- My paper “Modeling human migration patterns during drought conditions in La Guajira, Colombia” has been featured among others in in Science Daily, Phys.org, Earth.com, SINC La CIencia es Noticia, El Tiempo (most important Colombian paper)
- I was interviewd by MIT Technology Review Spain regarding the use of digital traces to improve urban environments. You can see the interview here.
- Ponente Invitado, Primer Encuentro Complutense BIG DATA y SOCIEDAD, Facultad de Geografía e Historia Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
- My Contribution to Think Big Blog: “Urban Analysis for the XXI Century” , wa salso featured in the World Economic Forum Agenda: “What mobile phones teach us about cities” and the World Economic Forum @ DAVOS twitter account
- My paper “Spectral Clustering for Sensing Urban Land Use using Twitter Activity” has been featured in ABC Newspaper (spanish), Muy Interesante, Vanguardia de Mexico, CBC News, TIME.com, Phys.org, Science Daily among others.
- Our work in modeling H1N1 spreading has been featured in The Economist as an example of how Big data can be used to control Ebola: “Ebola and Big data: Wainting on Hold”.
- “Urban Analysis for the XXI Century: Using Pervasive Infrastructures for Modeling Urban Dynamics”, Big Bang Data, CCCB Barcelona, Spain, 2014
- Invited Speaker, 4th Annual International Workshop IMDEA, “Collection, processing and exploitation of Call Detail Records at Telefónica for Smart Cities Applications”
- “Urban Informatics”, Jornadas BigData CyL, Boecillo, Valladolid, 2013
- “Urban Analysis for the XXI Century”, Catedra Telefonica, Universidad de Valladolid, 2012
- Rethink: 2012 Data Philantrophy - Panel Member, NYC, 2012
- My work in modeling H1N1 spread using CDRs has been featured in The Guardian: “Combating Global Epidemics with Big Mobile Data” and ABC newspaper (in spanish) “Los móviles, utiles para entender los movimientos poblacionales durante una pandemia”.
- ” Using Pervasive INfrastructures for Modeling Urban Dynamics” - Las TIC en las ciudades del Futuro, Santander, 2011
- Our work in identifiying socioeconomic levels from CDR data is featured in Forbes Magazine.
- “Web Mining for Personalization of Adaptive Hypermedia”, Brunel University, London, UK, Febrero 2004
- “Fuzzy Logic: Introduction & Applications”, Computer Science Dep., New York University, 2001
- “Lógica Borrosa: Introducción y Aplicaciones”, Universidad de Burgos, 8 de Junio, 2001
- “Integrated Development Environments for Digital Signal Processing Architectures”, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Mayo 2001
- “Architectures for high-speed Fuzzy Processing”, Facultad de Informatica, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, 2000
