Nayat SANCHEZ-PI

Dr. Nayat Sánchez Pi is Director of the Inria Research Center in Chile, the French Research Institute in Digital Sciences and Technologies. She is also CEO of the Inria Chile Foundation. She has a Ph.D. and Master's Degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Carlos III University of Madrid and graduation in Computer Science from the University of Havana.

She is currently also a Senior Researcher at Inria in France and since 2018 she coordinates the Inria Research Center in Chile. She was a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), leading the research group on Artificial Intelligence and Optimization (RIO Group). She also served as scientific director at the Institute of Logic, Philosophy and Theory of Science (ILTC), in Rio de Janeiro, leading R&D projects related to AI, IoT, among other topics, applications, in the technological areas of Petrobras. She was also a professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid and a guest researcher at the University of Lisbon and the University College Dublin. Her research interests range from artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things, ambient intelligence and human-computer interaction.

Dr. Sánchez-Pi, has been distinguished with several awards, she has several publications in national and international conferences, book chapters and high-standard journals and has also led multiple R&D projects and real-world applications of high social, economic, ecological, environmental and technological impact, with industrial and academic partners.