BIO
Esteban Moro is Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), a member of the Joint Institute UC3MSantander on Big Data and Academic Director of the MS in Data Science and Financial Big Data at AFI (Spain). He is also a Visiting Professor at MIT Media Lab (USA). He has served as a consultant for many public and private institutions and has held positions at the University of Oxford, the Institute of Knowledge Engineering (Spain) and the Instituto Mixto de Ciencias Matemáticas (Spain). After earning a BSc in Physics from the University of Salamanca, he went on to complete a PhD in the same subject at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Author of more than 50 published articles, he has led and participated in over 20 projects funded by government agencies and/or private companies. His areas of interests are applied mathematics, financial mathematics, viral marketing and social networks. He received an IBM Shared University Award in 2007 for modelling the spread of information in social networks and its application to viral marketing, and a Research Excellence Award in 2013 and 2015 from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His team’s recent work has been covered by many media outlets, with articles and interviews in publications like El País, Muy Interesante, The Atlantic, The Washington Post y The Wall Street Journal.