Categoría: Teaching
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What’s the Value of Data to Predict 5G Coverage?
Thrilled to announce that our student Matthew Samuel successfully defended his Master Thesis «Characterizing the Value of Data in Kriging-Based Coverage Prediction«. His work integrated principles of data economics into spatial interpolation for mobile network coverage prediction to understand what are the features of data that make it more or less valuable to estimate reference…
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Our Interpretable Data Pricing Tool@DEC’25
I’m thrilled to share that I finally had the chance to distill the essence of our data pricing tool into a research paper. Our work, titled «An Interpretable Market-based Data Price Prediction Tool», has been accepted for presentation at the Data Economy Workshop DEC’25, co-located with the prestigious VLDB Conference. See a demo of the…
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A Lecture on ICT Digital Regulations
Yesterday, I had the honor of giving a closing lecture to the ICT Regulations course at at ETSIT UPM, a specialisation course for Master’s students of Telecom Engineering. The session included an overview of recent EU Regulations on online platforms and data, framed within the EU’s Digital Decade policy programme. We answered key questions such…
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AI Ethics@UPM
Yesterday I had the opportunity to test the first practical case on AI Ethics developed under the project CAMELIA. In particular, students of the Master’s Degree in Signal Theory and Communications (MSTC) working on the case named «Studying Bias in Predicting Recidivism in the Criminal Justice System» during the «Application projects» class at Universidad Politécnica…
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My reads last Easter
I am writing to share with you the books I read last Easter: ‘La Era de la Revancha‘ (‘the Age of Revenge’), by Andrea Rizzi, and ‘Nexus‘ by Yuval Noah Harari. Albeit seemingly unrelated, they both address the profound socio-economic transformation we are living due to the technology revolution from different non-technical perspectives. Andrea Rizzi…
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What’s the data economy, and why should I care?
It was a pleasure giving my talk «What Is the Data Economy, and Why Should I Care?» at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) of Univ. Pontificia de Comillas. I intended to raise awareness on this interesting topic. After introducing some basic concepts of the data economy, I pointed to exciting opportunities at the…
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CAMELIA – AI Ethics in Action
2025 starts with good news! We have been awarded an internal innovation project to educate engineering students in the field of AI Ethics using hands-on practical use cases. CAMELIA (CAsos prácticos sobre el Marco Ético y Legal de la Inteligencia Artificial, which translates to Practical Cases on the Ethical and Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence),…
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Incentivising 6Green networks
Work with us at GTIC in a paid Master Thesis to develop a Framework to Incentivise Green Networks and Infrastructure in the 6G Mobile Ecosystem. Addressing climate change through a global reduction in carbon emissions and a transition to greener energy sources is essential to accomplishing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and ultimately…
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Intro to ICT: Closing lecture
This week we had the closing lecture for the introductory course to ICT engineering at ETSIT UPM, a warm-up primer on telecoms and the broad tech sector for first-year students. The course included foundational concepts and topics such as engineering vs. science, innovation, digital services, the ICT sector value chain and ecosystems, basic telecom techniques,…
Santiago Andrés Azcoitia 