Dr. Manuel Cebrian is a Senior Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council. He has held positions at the Max Planck Society, MIT, Australia's National Science Agency, UC San Diego, Brown University, and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow.
Specializing in Computational Social Science and Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Cebrian was part of teams that won the DARPA Network Challenge, demonstrated the effectiveness of digital contact tracing for the first time, and helped establish a framework for studying Machine Behaviour. His research has been published in Science, Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and featured in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Guardian.