ICT Researcher and Consultant
Assistant professor and researcher in the field of data economics at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and ICT Regulatory & Strategy Consultant. Previous experience as Researcher at IMDEA Networks, as Principal at Axon Consulting, as Senior Manager at Deloitte, as Project Manager at Telefónica I+D.
Played a leading role in +110 consulting projects on regulation & public policy, strategy, and operations. Clients have been telcos, regulatory authorities and governments in +25 countries in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Received:
- A PhD in Telematics Engineering by Univ. Carlos III de Madrid (2023)
- A Master of Arts in Economics by Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia (2012)
- A MSc in Telecom Engineering from Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (2001)
Published relevant papers related to the data economy in top computer science conferences and journals like IEEE ICDE, IEEE Communications Magazine, ACM Sigmod Record, and ACM Sigspatial.
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Bachelor Theses on the Data Economy
Yesterday, two bachelor students successfully defended their theses on the monitoring of the emergent data economy. Congratulations! Miguel Eleno García developed and implemented web scraping tools to monitor data markets. He updated my previous work on measuring the price of data in commercial data marketplaces, and built new scrapers to download information about data products
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Closure AI Ethics 2024/25
As the 2024/25 academic year draws to a close, we bid farewell to Diego Castro Freire, who has spent the past four months contributing to the CAMELIA project with dedication and strong commitment. CAMELIA — CAsos prácticos sobre el Marco Ético y Legal de la Inteligencia Artificial (Practical Cases on the Ethical and Legal Framework
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Talk@Weizenbaum Institute
Back to Madrid after attending the workshop «Data Solutionism in Servicing the Public. The Changing Interplay between Tech Companies and Public Entities» at the Weizenbaum Institute in the wonderful city of Berlin. We had a lovely multidisciplinary journey to how technology is shaping society. The workshop included talks about different topics: Finally, I gave a
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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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Incentivising 6Green Networks & Services
The transition to greener energy sources and the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are essential to mitigating climate change and ensuring a sustainable future. Although the ICT sector currently accounts for a modest share of global emissions, its contribution is expected to rise significantly due to the rapid growth in data and computing demand
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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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Pricing Tool@BDVA
I’m thrilled to present a live demo of the data pricing tool at Big Data Value Association Activity Group 66 meeting next Wednesday 30 April 2025. This meeting will focus on the Economic, business and sustainability aspects of Data and AI and on the recently published AI Continent Action Plan and European Data Union. Many
Santiago Andrés Azcoitia 