TAGFACT Workshop

Cristina Aranda

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 16:12:08 +0000

Cristina Aranda is co-founder of Big Onion, a team of solvers for every laayer of technology (Data, AI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity…), innovation and cultural transformation of companies. Her recent work includes the Artificial Intelligence Master Plan for Tenerife Tourism.

She is the co-founder of Mujeres Tech, a non-profit association that aims to promote initiatives so that there are many more women in different positions in the digital sector. In addition, Dr. Aranda is co-founder of the ELLIS Alicante centre, dedicated to addressing fundamental challenges in AI with a focus on research excellence and social impact, and co-founder of the Spain AI Aragón community.

Cristina is an advisor on technology and diversity to different public and private institutions. She belongs to the Red.es gender desk of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation and leads the technology area of the Think Tank Covid19 of the Government of Aragon. In October 2018 she was considered by Business Insider as one of the 30 Spaniards in the world of technology to follow on Twitter and selected as one of the Top 100 women. In 2019 Emprendedores magazine considered her one of the 9 most influential young entrepreneurs in Spain and in December 2020 she was considered one of the 20 most influential people in the Digital sector in Spain by Merca2 magazine. She was a speaker at TEDxZaragona2018.

Cristina holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, a degree in Hispanic Philology, a Master in Internet Business, a Social Innovation Fellow of the US Embassy and the Meridian Intl. Center, Certified Professor of the EOI and Director of the Data in Real Life module of the Master Data Analytics at ISDI.

Social Networks:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cris_aranda_

Twitter: https://twitter.com/big_onion_tech

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MujeresTech

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinaaranda-businessdevelopment

Rubén Míguez

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 15:29:07 +0000

Since 2018, Rubén Míguez has been leading Newtral’s technological solutions as the company’s CTO. He is an expert in AI whose work focuses on teaching machines to detect fake news.

Rubén holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo and an Executive MBA from the Escuela de Organización industrial. He founded his own startup in 2013 with which he won several entrepreneurship awards including the National University Entrepreneur Award granted by the EOI. Rubén has worked for the last ten years in the R&D sector. He has experience in both the public sector (universities, technology centres) and the private sector, where he has led as product manager the creation of artificial intelligence solutions for different industries. He is the author of several research articles on intelligent systems and has participated as a speaker at numerous national and international events including the Big Things Conference, the Mobile World Congress, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the BETT or the Mobile Week, among other.

Social networks:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rubenmiguez

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenmiguez/

Rodrigo Agerri

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:56:48 +0000

Rodrigo Agerri (https://ragerri.github.io/) is Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow at the IXA Group, Principal Investigator of the Text Analysis Unit at HiTZ Center of the UPV/EHU. PhD in Computer Science at City, University of London (2007), he has worked on Natural Language Processing in the UK and Spain, including a two year stint at the industry as research project director. Involved in more than 25 research projects funded by the European Commission, UK research councils, and the Spanish Ministry of Science. He is Co-IP of “DeepReading”, a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and PI of “ANTIDOTE”, a CHIST-ERA project on Explainable AI via argumentation generation (funded by the Spanish PCI programme), and of “Disinformation in the post-truth era”, a research project funded by the UPV/EHU.

My research is primarily focused on semantic processing, information extraction, opinion mining and disinformation detection, topics on which he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers at the main journals and conferences on Natural Language Processing. I am now interested in addressing those topics by generation approaches.

Social networks:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ragerri

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-agerri-0678616

Github: https://github.com/ragerri

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=1SJh0a8AAAAJ&hl=en

Denis Teyssou

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:54:46 +0000

Denis Teyssou heads the Medialab R&D at Agence France-Presse (AFP). After working for twenty years (many of them in Spain) as a reporter and news editor, he evolved towards journalism and technology projects. He was until the end of 2021 the innovation manager of the EU-funded WeVerify project on social network analysis, database of known fakes and disinformation detection. He has also coordinated the IFCN-funded EnVisu4 project, which aimed to improve the forensic analysis of manipulated images. He is currently involved in the DeFacto project, the French disinformation observatory. Since its launch in 2017, Denis is the founder and creator of the InVID-WeVerify verification plugin used worldwide by more than 70,000 active users per week, including many journalists and fact-checkers. Denis is also a PhD candidate in Information and Communication Sciences and teaches digital journalism at the University of Paris Nanterre. His research focuses on disinformation and propaganda in social networks and digital methods. He co-edited the book Video Verification in the Fake News Era (2019, Springer) and co-authored the UNESCO report Balancing Act: Countering Digital Disinformation While Respecting Freedom of Expression (2020).

Social networks:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dteyssou

Linkedin: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/denisteyssou

Daniel López-Fernández

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:42:54 +0000

Daniel López is Computer Science Engineer, Executive MBA Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Master in Innovation and Digital Transformation, Postgraduate in Advanced Systems of Telecommunications, and Computer Management Engineer.

He is currently pursuing a PhD at the UPF NeTS Research Group (DTIC Network Technologies and Strategies) where he researches innovation strategies.
He has experience in multinational Entreprise companies, where he created and managed the corporate Innovation and Technology Planning department; experience in international technology services companies, where he held a C-LEVEL position; and experience in one of the most prestigious Technological R&D Centres in the country, where he created and managed the Digital Innovation department.
He is currently the Director of Innovation & Business Strategy, a department he has created in Inetum Catalunya, one of the companies of the international Inetum Group.

Social networks:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dlf_daniellopez

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciodaniellopezinnovacion/

Alba Tobella

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:42:32 +0000

Journalist and co-founder of Verificat. She has been a correspondent for the Associated Press and France-Presse agencies in Colombia and Uruguay and a freelance reporter in Mexico. She has also worked for El País and has published in Univision, AJ+, Esquire and La Vanguardia, among others, and has been editor of the magazine Código Nuevo. She has a degree in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona.

Alba is the content manager and has editorial control over the fact-checking activity. However, each fact-check has to be approved by at least three other members of the team before being published.

Social networks:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/albatobella

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alba-tobella-4866ab1a/

Jennifer N. Tracey

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:41:58 +0000

Jennifer Tracey is a Senior Research Project Manager at the Linguistic Data Consortium and has managed multiple data collection and annotation efforts at LDC over the past 10 years, including text, speech, video, and mixed multimedia data collection, transcription, translation, and several types of annotation on the BOLT, DEFT, VAST, LORELEI, AIDA, and KAIROS projects. Among the types of annotation her LDC projects have involved are committed belief, emotion, and sentiment labeling in text, as well as annotation of conflicting hypotheses or claims in multimedia data...
She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Language, Interaction, and Social Organization.

Blanca Calvo

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:39:58 +0000

Blanca Calvo Figueras is a computational linguist working at the Text Minning unit in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. After studying philosophy, politics, and economics in Barcelona, she rerouted her career to specialize in Natural Language Processing, what brought her to the University of Groningen and the University of the Basque Country. She is interested in computational semantics and has researched phenomena such as fake news, media cyles, opinion mining, and controversy.

Social networks:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blanca_C_Fi

Hortènsia Curell

leyre barrios vicente — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:39:17 +0000

Hortènsia Curell is associate professor at the English Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research interestes are quite varied, ranging from contrastive and cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, CLIL, and verb aspect and modality. For the past four years she has been working on the study of factuality in Spanish, and now she has widened the scope to include subjectivity and evidentiality (adding Catalan and English). She has supervised PhDs in contrastive linguistics, language acquisition, empathy and translation.

Isabel Repiso

leyre barrios vicente — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:08:33 +0000

Isabel Repiso received her PhD in Linguistics in 2013 (Université d’Aix-Marseille and University of Salamanca) with a thesis on the acquisition of French as a second language. In 2014, she completed a postdoctoral stay in Singapore (Nanyang Technological University) through a programme on multilingualism funded by the European Commission. In 2015, she obtained a permanent teaching position as Maître de conférences at the Université de Haute Alsace. At this university, she taught for four years in the Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Languages and in the Master’s Degree in Translation. Since 2019, she has been conducting research activities and teaching disciplines related to bilingualism at Salzburg Universität, Austria. His research results have been published in Studies in Language Acquisition (De Gruyter), Studies in Bilingualism (John Benjamins) and Theoretical Linguistics.