Maria-Cristina Marinescu

Researcher in the field of Semantic Technologies and Artificial Intelligence at the National Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS), where she has led national and international projects applying this technology to smart cities, social exclusion and poverty, and cultural heritage. She recently formed part of the European Saint George on a Bike project. In a parallel line of research, she is involved in a collaboration with the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid and the National Centre of Epidemiology (CNE) to implement strategies that evaluate the evolution of infectious diseases such as COVID.

She is the author of over 50 articles at prestigious congresses and in international magazines, has participated in conferences, holds several patents, and has worked on standardization. She has a PhD from the University of California, a PostDoc from MIT, and worked for several years at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson labs.