Karina Gibert
Full professor and Head Director of Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC) Dean of the Official Professional College of Informatics Engineering of Catalonia Data Mining, Data Science, KEMLg, eHealth, environmental applications, Hackingbullipedia, Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Preprocessing, Postprocessing, Knowledge Discovery from Data bases, Artificial Intelligence, ethics in AI, explainable AI
Campus Nord UPC NexusII building C/ Jordi Girona 29, 08034 Barcelona Phone: +34 93 4017323 ORCID: 0000-0002-8542-3509 Scholar Google profile: profile See bellow for a brief CV Head of the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center, from Feb 2021 Dean of the Official Professional College on Informatics Engineering of Catalonia, from April 2023 IP of the INSESS-Project (insess-covid19.upc.edu, from may 2020) Expert of the Catalonia.AI strategic plan from Nov 2018 Founder of donesCOEINF (May 2018-) Founder of donesIAcat (March 8th, 2019) Founder of Red de Mujeres del Sector Digital (Nov 25th, 2019) Ambassador of Women in Data Science Barcelona 2022 (Standford), co-ambassador in 2021 Vicepresident of BCN chapter of women in ACM Pioneer member of the research group KEMLG Pioneer member of the research group KEMLG |
Main interests:
Data Science, Knowledge Discovery from Databases, Data Mining, Multivariate Statistics, Clustering, Artificial Intelligence, Explainable AI, AI and Ethics, Machine Learning, hybrid AI and Statistics Data Mining methods, Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Preprocessing, Postprocessing, Heterogeneous data analysis, health applications, environmental applications, Gender Gap in informatics engineering
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- Finalist of the European Social Services Awards, with project INSESS-COVID19. Please vote our project in this web for voting and contribute to make it win!!!!! To give us our vote: Register on the web; Go to category: Research Projects and vote for INSESS-COVID19. Thanks in advance!
- IP of INSESS-COVID19 project. The project to understand the social vulnerability caused by COVID19.
- Scientific Head of Top Secret Rosies. The project to promote female AI talent. Closing ceremony on Desember 20th, 2021 (registration).
- Co-Chair of Women in Data Science Barcelona 2021 (WiDS-Barcelona 2021), 22 juny
- Guest editor of Special Issue Women in AI, Applied Sciences, MDPI
More information:
- Research
- Karina's Publications at UPC records (UPCcommons)
- My teaching website
- Visit donesCOEINF website (and visit the PrEINf, portal to promote computer engineering in feminine)
- Visit donesIAcat website
- Visit Red de Mujeres del sector digital website
- Visit my videos playlist
Brief CV
Prof. Karina Gibert [♀] (updated 25 jul 2022)
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Karina is a Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC), with a permantent teaching position at UPC from1990. ORCID id: 0000-0002-8542-3509, H-index: 30 (https://www.eio.upc.edu/en/homepages/karina, karina.gibert@upc.edu, Twitter: @karinagibertk). Bachelor and PhD in Informatics Engineering with specialities in Computational Statistics and Artificial Intelligence. Postgraduate in Higher Education Teaching (UPC, 1996). Her main research interests are to extract strategic knowledge from data and intelligent systems from an ethical and explainable perspective . Expert ant co-writer of the Catalan Strategy for AI of the Catalan government, Catalonia.ai (from Oct 2018, Generalitat de Catalunya, enacting from Feb 2018, 28th) she participates in its current deployment (CIDAI, AIRA, CDA, OEIAC).
Service: Director and cofounder of the research center Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI, en- 2018), former secretary of IDEAI (2017-2021). Dean of the Official Professional College of Informatics Engineering of Catalonia (COEINF, June 2020-). Past ViceDean for Ethics and Equity (2020-2023, past vicedean for Big Data, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (COEINF) (May 2017-Jun 2020). Vicepresident of the Spanish General Council of Professional Colleges of Informatics Engineering (2023-). Member of the Committee for the Ethics of Data from Catalan Government, from 2021. Member of the Board of Directors of the Program in Health and AI of Catalan Government (2023-). Member of the Advisory Board of EIT-Artificial Intelligence (2023-). Expert from the Spanish Senate in AI ethics and digital transformation and Advisory Board of SEDIA for the AI sandbox guides (2023). Advisor of WHO in characterizing mental health systems (2008-2010). Avisor of EC in ethics in AI (2019-2020)..
Very active in bridging the gender gap in the STEAM sector she founded up to 5 gender working groups (donesCOEINF, donesIAcat, donesIDEAI, Mujeres en Ingeniería Informática, donesIntercolcat). WiDS (Standford) ambassador for Barcelona from 2021. Technological coordinator of critvirtual.com. Vicepresident of Barcelona Chapter of Women in ACM 2022. Editor of JRC journal Environmental Modeling and Software, Elsevier, (Jan 2018-).
Research; Her main research interests are to extract strategic knowledge from data and intelligent systems from an ethics and explainable perspective. IP from projects Diet4You project (TIN2014-60557-R, to assess on personalized diets for healthy life-styles and taking into account health, life styles and gene-expressions); INSESS-COVID19 project (CCD-COVID-L019) to discover new social vulnerabilities produced by COVID19 crisis; Top Rosies Talent (2022-) to create female talent in AI; ciutadanIA (may 2022-) to promote AI culture in society; researcher in AI4EU (H2020-ICT-2018-2-RIA-825619) fo an European AI-on demand platform (2019-2022), GAVIUS on digital transformation of social services (2019-2023); SHAREBOX (circular economy and industrial symbiosis). COFUND Postgraduate programm Ramon Llull (2023-). IP of the software development of KLASS (1989-, data sciente and AI tool) and KET (2017-), for collaborative evaluation of teaching activities). systems. She has long experience in the health and wellness domains , environmental systems and sustainability, tourism, digital transformation and social and ethical uses of technology, among others, . Essential characteristics of her research are the multidisciplinarity, the externalization, the internationalization and technology transfer to society.
Awards: Women Tech Awars 2023. National Informatics Engineering Award in Digital Dissemination 2022 (Consejo Consejo General De Colegios Profesionales de Ingeniería Informática de España). Ada Byron Award 2022, (ANoite Galicia Engineering school). Honorific Mention of Creu Casas award 2021 and 2022 women for changing world (Catalan Studies Institute), donaTIC 2018 Award in the academic/researcher category (Generalitat de Catalunya, Dec 2018). Finalist at AMETIC Awards 2021 for the project Top Secret Rosies. Finalist of European Social Services Awards 2021 fot the project INSESS-COVID19. First HackingBullipedia contest Award (nov 2013), related with the famous chef Ferran Adrià, with the project GENESIS: Intelligent decision support for creativity through evolutive analysis, vimeo.com/78143348. “Highly accessed paper” distinction to HARPS 8(28)1:16. EU-best e-Health European project Award to K4Care project (Feb 2010) for the high quality standards achieved. Elected Fellow from iEMSs (Jul 2007). WomenTech 2023 Award (Women360)
Societies and working groups: She is pioneer member of COEINF (1991-, member 345), ACIA (1995- ), iEMSs (int’l Environmental Modeling and Software society, 2002-), MIDAS (Spanish funded Network on Data Mining and Learning, 2002-), AMyC (interest group in Multivariate Analysis and Classification, a chapter of Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2006- ), SoCE (Catalan Statistical Society, 2010- ), ATICA (spanish network for Computational Intelligence, 2014- ), Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning (KEMLg, 1986), now part of IDEAI and head of the group in 2013-2016. Member of PSICOST Association, past member of Catalan Society for Mathematics (1995-2005), EUSFLAT (European Society for Fuzzy Logic) and she works to disseminate Data Science, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining techniques to Spanish and international community and to application fields like, environment, health or e-comerce. Chair of the Advanced School on AI ACAI-Tailor-IDEAI 2022, the CCIA2018 congress and DMTES workshop and session series inside iEMSs conference (2002- ). Del CCIA2018. Del WiDS-BCN2021 and 2022. Chair of the Women in Technological professionals Workshop, Barcelona, Dec 2019. Co-chair of the event Women in Tech: Professional inclusion, Barcelona, Feb 25th, 2019. She is also involved in promoting new female vocations in Informatics Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, and promoting the role of women in Computer science and STEAM from 2017.
Links and Highlights
Positions and Awards
- June 2020: VicePresident of Equity and Ethics of the Professional Official Chamber of Informatics Engineering od Catalonia: https://enginyeriainformatica.cat/?p=21550
- March 2018: Founder of donesIAcat
- December 2018: Premi donaTIC 2018-acadèmica/investigadora. Generalitat de Catalunya Agraïment, Crónica BarcelonaDot, Notícia FIB
- October 2018: Member of the Working group Catalonia.AI. General Secretary of Telecomunications, Cybersecurity and Digital Society. Generalitat de Catalunya. Catalonia.ai
- October 2018: Chair of the Int'l Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Roses, October 8-10, 2018. https://ccia2018.upc.edu
- May 2018: Founder of Comissió donesCOEINF to follow-up the gender gap in informatics engineering from the Official Chamber of Informatics Engineering in Catalonia dones.coeinf.cat
- March 2018: Secretary of Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (UPC). https://ideai.upc.edu
- January 2018: External researcher of the Visual and Decision Analytics Lab (VIDEA lab). Center for Mental Health Research, Australian National University. https://rsph.anu.edu.au/research/groups/visual-and-decision-analytics-lab-videa
- January 2018: Advisor of the Fundació Privada Observatori de la Sostenibilitat d'Andorra for data science processes. http://www.obsa.ad/
- May 2017-June 2020: ViceDean of Bigdata and Data Science of the Professional Official Chamber of Informatics Engineering od Catalonia: https://enginyeriainformatica.cat/?p=21550
- July 2016: Member of the board of the Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) https://www.iemss.org/
- July 2015: Member of the IASC Committee on Computational Statistics and Data Mining for KnFebruary owledge Discovery (International Association of Statistical Computing) https://iasc-isi.org/committees/
- Novembre, 27th 2013: A team leaded by Karina Gibert wins the international contest The HackingBullipedia Global Challenge, organized by El Bulli Foundation and Telefonica and calling for talent and innovative ideas to contribute to the Bullipedia project. The team, composed by Karina Gibert, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Sergio Álvarez-Napagao, Luis Oliva-Felipe, Beatriz Sevilla-Villanueva, Arturo Tejeda and Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià from the KEMLg research group at UPC defended the proposal entitled GENESIS: Intelligent Decision Support for Creativity through Evolutive Analysis (see the video and find details about the contest in Hackingbullipedia), which passed as a finalist of the contest on November the 7th 2013. Front Page News in UPC e-informacions (2013/12/05): Un equip de la UPC guanya la competició internacional HackingBullipedia. News in Wired (2013/11/25): Winning Bullipedia Hackers' extract the DNA of recipes and reimagine cooking as programming and Wired (2013/11/28): Meet the gastronomic innovators helping Ferran Adrià disrupt the kitchen. News in Telefonica Innovation Hub (2013/11/28): Genesis and Huevo Programming Language win Hacking Bullipedia Global Challenge
- October 2013: Chair of Scientific Committee of Int'l Conference of Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Vic, October 2013.
- July 2007: Elected Fellow of the International Environmental and Modelling Society (iEMSs)
Scientific Production
- View all Karina's publications in my Google Scholar profile
- December 2018: Editor of the Special Issue on Environemental Data Science. Applications to Climate Change and Echological Footprint in Environmental Modelling and Software v 110. Elsevier
- August 2018: Co-editor of the Special Issue on Environmental Data Science. Applications to Air pollution and Water Cycle in Environmental Modelling and Software Journal, v 106 Elsevier.
- December 9th, 2016: Editor of the Special Issue on Environmental Data Mining. AIComm v 29(6). IOSPress: http://content.iospress.com/journals/ai-communications/29/6
- January, 2015: Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (AIComm v 28(1). IOSPress. http://content.iospress.com/journals/ai-communications/28/1
- November 2006: Special Issue on Minería de Datos. Inteligencia Artificial. Revista Iberoamericana de IA v10(29). Springer
Media
- Oct 11th, 2020. Inteligencia Artificial. El futuro ya está aquí. Detabe con Xabi Uribe y Karina Gibert. Modera Juan Zafra. 11 oct 2020. Congresos del Bienestar. La Felicidad (9-11 oct, Cádiz). Cadena SER. Clip corto. Vídeo resumen. Crónica
- April 23th, 2020 Founder of PrEInF:Portal de Promoció de l'Enginyeria Informàtica en Femení
- March 8th, 2020 10 suggeriments fàcils de donesCOEINF. Camí de l'equitat, donesCOEINF. Crònica de donesEnXarxa. Notícia de donesCOEINF. Difusió Ajuntament de Sant Pere de Ribes aquí.
- DiMarch 6, 2020: Video "AI and Explainability" in Five AI video capsules to disseminate IA, produced by IDEAI. See the press release here. Notícia COEINF aquí
- March 5, 2020: Lecture on "Artificial Intelligence: industrial, ethical and gender challenges", on the Day of Engineer Woman 2020. Official Chamber (professional college) of technical industrial engineers from Barcelona.
- Feb, 27, 2020: Conferència "Impacte de la IA en el nostre dia a dia". Mobile Week, Ajuntament de Sant Pere de Ribes. Crónica COEINF, Pots veure la sessió completa aquí
- Feb, 25, 2020: Taula rodona "Intel.ligència Artificial: mites i reptes". Mobile Week, Universitat de Vic
- Feb, 11, 2020: participates in the blog of la Caixa for the Women and Girls in Science Day 2020 "Por qué necesitamos más científicas con premio Nobel" (direct access to video here)
- Desember, 13, 2019: Dones i professions Tecnològiques, donesCOEINF, cicle Dones i profesions Col.legiades, comissió dona i igualtat de l'associació intercol.legial de col.legis professionals de Catalunya. Crònica donesCOEINF, i també notícia donesEnXarxa
- November, 22, 2019, Mesa redonda Red de Mujeres del Sector Digital, WomanLiderTic 2020. Barcelona Activa
- Octubre, 31, 2019: Ponencia Inteligencia Artificial y ética. Networking SheLeader. Crónica
- July 7, 2019, participates in the promotional video of the Master in Science and Technology of Sustainability (UPC) (see the video here)
- June 20, 2019, Invited speaker in the workshop "Ética e Inteligencia Artificial", organized by 12x12 (joint iniciative of Tertulia Digital and Master Plan smartCat from Catalan Government). Palau Robert, Barcelona (see news here)
- June 7, 2019, Invited speaker in the Barcelona Black Coffee radio programm with the topic Artificial Intelligence (see the video here)
- April, 26, 2019: Workshhop especial dones: Les dades pels nostres projectes. Iniciativa Barcelona Open Data. Crònica
- February 2019: Article "Artificial Intelligence in Catalonia. A personal view" for the .Catalonia Magazine of the Catalan Government in Movile World Congress 2019. I en català!!! "Intel.ligència Artificial. Una visió personal
- Març 20, 2010. Visibilització Karina Gibert, wisibilizalas
- Desembre, 20, 2019: Visibilització Karina Gibert, a Noies, les TIC són nostres, donesEnXarxa
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November 22, 2018: Escenari actual i futur de la Intel·ligència Artificial. Cicle IA. Col.legi Oficial d'Enginyers Industrials, Barcelona. Veure la presentació
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September 14, 2018 Programa de ràdio La ciencia que somos, Iberoamérica al aire, de radio UNAM, México, dirigido por Sofía Flores y Ángel Figueroa. Viernes, 14 set 2018, 11:00 am, BigData y Salud
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February 15, 2018: Charla "Com es passa d'estudiant d'informàtica a participar en millores a la sanitat", Jornada Dia de la dona i la nena en la ciència,amb motiu del International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona. 15 feb 2018 http://media.fib.upc.edu/fibtv/streamingmedia/view/2/1434
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November 2017 Interview in-Movement course Liderar y ser Liderado: https://www.in-inmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Karina_Gilabert.mp4?_=7
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Jun 30, 2017: Charla L'us de les ontologies digitals i el data science per al suport a la presa de decisions estratègiques o la gestió de sistemes complexos (minut 51:50 i següents). LabMetadecidim. Ajuntament de Barcelona. Breu Interview
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Programa de formació professional continuada ISACA: Introducció a la ciberseguretat en sistemes mHealth i la protecció de dades, (Introduction to cibersecurity in mHealth systems and data protection). Movile World Center, Barcelona, (10/02/2017)
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On-line radio Interview: Els matins de Radio 4 (RNE), conducted by Ramon Castelló. Que se'n fa de tantes dades? (What is done with so many data?) (2015/06/18)
- Petcha-Kutcha speech at 3rd DataBeers Barcelona : The impact of data in reality, Movile World Center, Barcelona, 22/7/2015
- On-line conference: BBVA Innovation Center Conference, Madrid: Nuevas Tendencias y herramientas de minería de datos para la detección de fraude. (The Streaming section contains the complete video of the speach) (2015/03/12) Front page news in BBVA Innovation Center News (2015/03/16) Las cualidades de un data scientist para realizar una buena minería de datos
- On-line radio Interview. Els matins de Radio 4 (RNE), conducted by Ramon Castelló. Smart Cities (2014/11/20, from min 22)
- Video Lecture LEARNING2006: Data Mining as a Tool for Analysing Environmental Systems
- Programa Perspectivas. Canal Cultural TV Costa Rica 2004 (complete vídeo, only second part) .
See bellow for a brief CV
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