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2025
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UK
2023

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D-Index
70
Citations
23089
World Ranking
1849
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2017 - ACM Fellow For contributions in probabilistic multimodal models of human behavior and uses in intelligent, interactive systems
  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions in probabilistic multi-modal models of human behavior and development of intelligent and interactive systems
  • 2015 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2013 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Nuria Oliver is affiliated with the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems in Spain. Their primary research spans computer science, with notable contributions in subfields such as modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence, information systems, transportation, and clinical psychology.

The main topics of their work focus on the study of COVID-19 epidemiological patterns and digital contact tracing methods. Other key areas include human mobility and location-based analysis, COVID-19 impacts on mental health, data-driven disease surveillance, pandemic-related societal effects, and mobile health applications.

Nuria Oliver has published in several venues, with the most frequent being arXiv (Cornell University), where 29 publications are available. Other venues include Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Public Health, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Communications of the ACM.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle, 2020, Science Advances
  • Ethical machines: The human-centric use of artificial intelligence, 2021, iScience
  • Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: Large-Scale, Online, Self-Reported Population Survey, 2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment, 2021, CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Pisa)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nuria Oliver include Bruno Lepri, Kristof Roomp, Piera Riccio, Marina Martínez-Garcia, and Marco De Nadai.

Their book publications are primarily with Springer Science+Business Media, which includes three titles related to "Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases" published in 2021.

Awards and honors received are:

  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2018
  • IEEE Fellow, 2017, for contributions in probabilistic multi-modal models of human behavior and development of intelligent and interactive systems
  • ACM Fellow, 2017, for contributions in probabilistic multimodal models of human behavior and uses in intelligent, interactive systems
  • ACM Distinguished Member, 2015
  • ACM Senior Member, 2013

Best Publications

  • Image analogies

    Aaron Hertzmann;Charles E. Jacobs;Nuria Oliver;Brian Curless

  • A Bayesian computer vision system for modeling human interactions

    N.M. Oliver;B. Rosario;A.P. Pentland

  • Coupled hidden Markov models for complex action recognition

    M. Brand;N. Oliver;A. Pentland

  • Multiverse recommendation: n-dimensional tensor factorization for context-aware collaborative filtering

    Alexandros Karatzoglou;Xavier Amatriain;Linas Baltrunas;Nuria Oliver

  • Architecture for controlling a computer using hand gestures

    Andrew David Wilson;Nuria M. Oliver

  • Fair, Transparent, and Accountable Algorithmic Decision-making Processes: The Premise, the Proposed Solutions, and the Open Challenges

    Bruno Lepri;Nuria Oliver;Emmanuel Letouzé;Alex Pentland

  • Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle.

    Nuria Oliver;Bruno Lepri;Harald Sterly;Renaud Lambiotte;Renaud Lambiotte

  • Layered representations for human activity recognition

    Nuria Oliver;Eric Horvitz;Ashutosh Garg

  • CLiMF: learning to maximize reciprocal rank with collaborative less-is-more filtering

    Yue Shi;Alexandros Karatzoglou;Linas Baltrunas;Martha Larson

  • Layered representations for learning and inferring office activity from multiple sensory channels

    Nuria Oliver;Ashutosh Garg;Eric Horvitz

  • Sensing and predicting the pulse of the city through shared bicycling

    Jon Froehlich;Joachim Neumann;Nuria Oliver

  • Graphical models for driver behavior recognition in a SmartCar

    N. Oliver;A.P. Pentland

  • LAFTER: lips and face real time tracker

    N. Oliver;A.P. Pentland;F. Berard

  • Data Mining Methods for Recommender Systems

    Xavier Amatriain;Alejandro Jaimes;Nuria Oliver;Josep M. Pujol

  • Once Upon a Crime: Towards Crime Prediction from Demographics and Mobile Data

    Andrey Bogomolov;Bruno Lepri;Jacopo Staiano;Nuria Oliver

  • HealthGear: a real-time wearable system for monitoring and analyzing physiological signals

    N. Oliver;F. Flores-Mangas

  • When attention is not scarce - detecting boredom from mobile phone usage

    Martin Pielot;Tilman Dingler;Jose San Pedro;Nuria Oliver

  • TFMAP: optimizing MAP for top-n context-aware recommendation

    Yue Shi;Alexandros Karatzoglou;Linas Baltrunas;Martha Larson

  • I Like It... I Like It Not: Evaluating User Ratings Noise in Recommender Systems

    Xavier Amatriain;Josep M. Pujol;Nuria Oliver

  • System and method for executing a process using accelerometer signals

    Andrew Wilson;Nuria Oliver

  • A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interaction

    Nuria Oliver;Barbara Rosario;Alex Pentland

  • Fair, Transparent, and Accountable Algorithmic Decision-making Processes

    Bruno Lepri;Nuria Oliver;Emmanuel F Letouze;Alex Paul Pentland

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Anguera
Xavier Anguera ELSA Speak
Bruno Lepri
Bruno Lepri Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Desney S. Tan
Desney S. Tan Microsoft (United States)
George G. Robertson
George G. Robertson Microsoft (United States)
Brian R. Meyers
Brian R. Meyers Microsoft (United States)
Eric Horvitz
Eric Horvitz Microsoft (United States)
Mary Czerwinski
Mary Czerwinski Microsoft (United States)
Enrique Frias-Martinez
Enrique Frias-Martinez Telefónica (Spain)
Alexandros Karatzoglou
Alexandros Karatzoglou Google (United States)

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