ICT Researcher and Consultant
Assistant professor and researcher in the field of data economics at the ICT Group of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and 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.
Led +110 consulting projects on regulation & public policy, strategy, and operations. Clients have been telcos, regulatory authorities and governments in +25 countries in EMEA and Latin America. 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 venues like IEEE ICDE, IEEE Communications Magazine, ACM Sigmod Record, and ACM Sigspatial.
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FT: Fixing the Internet
The rise of AI chatbots is threatening the ad-based funding model of the Internet, as users no longer need to visit websites that generate revenue from ads, but instead search for knowledge and content through AI chatbots. According to professor…
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3rd Data EConomy Workshop
And finally, the 3rd edition of the Data EConomy workshop took place on September 5th, co-located with the prestigious VLDB Conference. I had the honour of co chairing the half-day event with Prof. George Konstantinidis, and we enjoyed a great…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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