Fernando Vilariño

Dr. Fernando Vilariño is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is currently lecturing in “Machine Learning”,  “Robotics”, “Urban Open Innovation” and “Models of Open Innovation and Citizen Science”. His research has been linked to diverse areas of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with a particular focus on medical imaging.  He has recently led different projects related to the implementation of models of Living Labs in the context of citizen-centric Open Innovation. He coordinates the UAB and ECIU Communities of Citizen Science and he has coordinated the co-creation of 3 pilots on Citizen Science in the Context of the SMART Project. He has been invited keynote speaker in different talks in the context of the Social Impact of AI.  Dr. Vilariño has been awarded with the Spanish Gov. Ramon y Cajal Grant (2010), and Google Academy Award (2014) for his research. He is the current Elected President of the European Network of Living Labs.