She obtained her degree in Mathematics with honors from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1992 and obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from the same university in 1996. Since 2010, she is Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research in the Department of Statistics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She is currently the head of the uc3m-Santander Big Data Institute (www.ibidat.es) and the director of the ENIA Chair: AImpulsa, in collaboration with Universia, focused on Data Economy.

 

She has published more than one hundred articles in high-impact international journals, supervised 21 PhD students, and collaborated on numerous projects, both in research and in the application of solutions for businesses and public institutions. In 2012, she received the Excellence Award for Young Researchers from Banco Santander. In the past, she was as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Arizona, Tucson. Since 2005, she has received several awards recognizing her teaching and research contributions and has been a member of various evaluation committees for ANECA and AEI since 2014.

 

She is also deeply committed to outreach efforts and is the creator of the “STAT WARS” events, which have achieved national and international recognition. Since taking on the leadership of IBiDat, she has intensified the development of R&D&I result transfer through projects with companies, organizations, and public institutions.

He is a research director at Inria and a part-time Professor of computer science at Ecole Polytechnique and at ENSAE, where he is responsible for the computer science courses. Since March 2022, he is the co-head of the FairPlay team, a joint team between Criteo, ENSAE, and Inria Saclay. In 2019-23, he was the co-holder of a Chair of the MIAI@Grenoble Alpes institute on “Explainable and Responsible AI”. Prior to creating FairPlay in Saclay, he was a member of the POLARIS team (a joint Inria/LIG team) in Grenoble. Even earlier, he was an Assistant Professor in the data science department at EURECOM and he spent several long research visits at UC Berkeley and MPI-SWS. In particular, from April 2016 to October 2018, he was a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), supported by a Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers.

He received his PhD in CS from ENS Lyon in 2009. Prior to that, he studied Physics at ENS Lyon (MSc ’06) and after that he also studied Mathematics at UPMC (Paris 6) and Ecole Polytechnique (MSc ’10). He was a postdoc at Inria Paris in 2010 and at UC Santa Cruz in 2011. He received my HDR from UPMC in 2016.

His research interests revolve around game theory and statistical learning and their interactions, in particular in the context of security, privacy and ethics of online systems and algorithms.

He was the chair of the steering committee of NetEcon and an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. He was a PC co-chair of NetEcon ’12-’15 and he serves or have served as a PC member or Area Chair of numerous conferences (FAccT, ECML-PKDD, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGMETRICS, PETS, WiOpt, GameSec, etc.), as a guest editor of two journal special issues, as a reviewer for numerous journals and as a member of several evaluation committees for PhDs or panels for grant selection.