🤖🔬Towards an AI Research Ecosystem in Andalucía 🔬🤖
In this discussion panel, a group of top speakers from industry, academia and government will discuss strategies to build an excellence-based AI research ecosystem, as well as the opportunities and challenges of developing such an ecosystem in Andalucía.
Panelists:
Dr. José Suárez Varela, Research Scientist, Telefónica Research (Telefónica Innovación Digital)
Coming soon!
Dr. José Suárez Varela is a Research Scientist at Telefónica Research (Telefónica Innovación Digital). His work focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to communication networks and digital services. This includes research and innovation in AI-based network optimization, privacy-preserving AI algorithms, anomaly detection, and cybersecurity. He actively collaborates with researchers from academic institutions and research centers, and participates in several EU-funded projects aimed at developing future network technologies.
Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Neural Networking center (BNN-UPC), between 2020 and 2022. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in 2020, and a B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad de Granada (UGR). He was co-Principal Investigator of the IGNNITION project (H2020 NGI POINTER), and main organizer of the GNNet challenge 2020-2022, an international competition co-organized with ITU-T (United Nations).
More information at: https://jsuarezv.github.io/