Karina Gibert, new head of IDEAI

Feb 19, 2021

Yesterday, February 18th, 2021, the relief process of the head of IDEAI was completed, with the meeting between the Mgfc. Rector of the UPC, Mr. Francesc Torras Torras and the outgoing and incoming directors of IDEAI, Mr. Cecilio Angulo and Mrs. Karina Gibert respectively; the meeting closed with the designation of Mrs. Karina Gibert as the new director of IDEAI.

IDEAI’s management rotates between the research groups belonging to the center, which are currently 7, and governance is based on a management team that includes a representative from each IDEAI research groups.

IDEAI is the specific research center in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Data Science at the UPC. It has 65 permanent researchers and was created in October 2017, being the largest research center in AI in Spain. In February 2018 Mr. Cecilio Angulo took office as the center’s first director for a three-year term, and now IDEAI is beginning its second three-year term under the direction of Ms. Karina Gibert.

Karina Gibert played a very active role in the creation of the center and has been part of the management team since the beginning, representing her research group, the Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning group (KEMLG). She is Full Professor of Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and specializes in extracting strategic value from data to support complex decision making. She is very active in applied research, primarily to health, the environment and sustainability and digital transformation. She is also very concerned about promoting female talent in the field of STEAM and overcoming the glass ceiling of female professionals and scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

We want to make explicit recognition to Mr. Cecilio Angulo, our outgoing director, for his excellent leadership in the complex process of setting up a center of the magnitude of IDEAI.

Thank you very much Cecilio

Lots of successes Karina