Manuel García-Herranz
Data Science, Complex Systems & AI for the Most Vulnerable. Science at Humanitarian & Development
- Role
- Chief Scientist at UNICEF
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Manuel García-Herranz
I focus on bridging the gap between Data Science and the most vulnerable, exploring how to apply Big Data, Complex Systems theory, and Artificial Intelligence to help the most deprived and invisible. Fields of application at UNICEF Office of Innovation include growing humanitarian problems such as epidemics, natural disasters, and migration as well as transversal issues such as poverty, data representativeness and algorithmic equity. I hold a PhD in computer science from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid where I worked for almost 10 years. After some stints at Carnegie Mellon University and UCSD, I joined UNICEF Innovation in 2014. Since then I’ve been working to bring the value of Big Data to UNICEF, leading research at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation and creating collaboration networks and Data Science tools that focus on the problems of the most vulnerable children.
Experience
Chief Scientist
Jul 2014 — Present · New York, NY, US
Education
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
PhD, Computer Science and Telecommunications
2006 — 2009
DTU - Technical University of Denmark
Engineer, Computer Science
2001 — 2002
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
MSc, Computer Science and Telecommunications
2004 — 2006
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Engineer, Computer Science
1999 — 2004
Colegio Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo
High School
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