ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. SCIENCE, BUSINESS, SOCIETY.
My best professional experience was living in Switzerland while pursuing my PhD at the EPFL and creating Iconomic Systems, SA with a group of very talented scientists and business enthusiasts. The EPFL has just published a brochure about its PhD School and they mention my experience to illustrate what a PhD at the EPFL could mean to anyone. This mention makes me extremely happy, I will be always very thankful for all things I’ve got from there. Thanks!
I’ve met Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarría and María Arenaza in US when we were starting Strands all together. They have started a social e-commerce company for fashion passionated people: Chicisimo. Chicisimo is a social e-commerce website allowing people to share, discover and document their fashion preferences.
Chicisimo is nowadays the largest community around fashion in Europe just one year after its launch! We believe the fashion industry will be revolutionized in the upcoming years through the Internet. It is one of the industries that still needs to seriously consider Internet in its core business.
From a scientific point of view, the challenge is to exploit the collected data to extract collective intelligence and people trends.
You can find more information from Techcrunch. I am very proud to be part of their Scientific Advisory board and hope we will make a large contribution to all fashionists on the streets out there!
IJCAI (International Join Conference on Artificial Intelligence) is the main worldwide conference gathering AI researchers and this year was organized by the IIIA (CSIC) in Barcelona. Nuria Oliver organized the Industry Day and invite a group of AI contributors from the industry including the main players and local companies such as Strands Labs. Here you can watch my presentation on the lessons that we have been learning at Strands on Recommendation technologies.
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