The City Council of Guarroman is inspired by the efforts of our researcher Rosa María Rodríguez Domínguez to create an extraordinary award for high school students in the province of Jaén Noticia

#recognition This city council sees in the word Effort a more than necessary value in the educational world. Therefore, it has created the Rosa Rodríguez Extraordinary Award for Compulsory Education at provincial level to the best academic record of the course. In this way it wants to recognize the most diligent secondary school student in […]

Inaugural lecture of the Academic Year 21/22 at the University of Jaén given by Mª José del Jesus Díaz Noticia

#Conference The professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the UJA, and DaSCI researcher M.ª José del Jesus Díaz, gave in her institution the master lecture entitled ‘Artificial Intelligence and data for society’. The event could be followed live on YouTube. This lecture presented a reflection on the benefits that Artificial Intelligence, through machine […]

With the creation of AI Lab Granada, our city is confirmed as one of the major national and international benchmarks in Artificial Intelligence. Noticia

The creation of “AI Lab Granada” is the result of the efforts of the University of Granada, Indra and Google Cloud to make Granada and the PTS Foundation – Parque Tecnológico de la Salud a leading space in research and knowledge transfer. The agreement signed by Pilar Aranda, rector of the University of Granada (UGR), […]

Artificial Intelligence will be key to the future of preventive and predictive medicine Noticia

At the proposal of the Pfizer Foundation in its latest meeting with the evolution that does not cease, a session was organised to analyse the transition “from Big Data to Medicine on Demand”. In this session, moderated by Sergio Rodríguez, President of the Pfizer Foundation, different experts, including our director Francisco Herrera, analysed from different […]

Artificial Intelligence and Gastronomy, a good pairing Noticia

On Friday the 2nd of July, the IDEAL newspaper dedicated its Gourmet space to talk to Francisco Herrera, our director, about digitalisation in the hotel and catering industry and what Artificial Intelligence can do for gastronomy and restaurants. A fundamental sector for the economy of our region. All the information in the IDEAL newspaper (In […]

The Institute celebrates its first “DaSCI Day” Noticia

Last Friday, 18 June 2021 and coinciding with the Institute’s Council Celebration, a large number of DaSCI researchers gathered in a virtual meeting to celebrate the DaSCI Day. This year we have been working intensively on improving communication and dissemination aspects in the Institute. In this process we have been advised by the “Fundación Descubre” […]

SintonIA, a podcast for the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI) Noticia

The podcast sheds light into the technologies used in the processing and analysis of information. Hosted by Rocío Romero and Francisco Jesús Martínez, both researchers at the DaSCI institute, the podcast deals with the latest advances in these technologies and their future prospects in simple language and for all audiences. The podcast is a biweekly […]

12 DaSCI researchers have been included in the Ranking of scientists who are among the top 2% of the world’s leading scientists Noticia

The “World Scientist: World’s Top 2% Scientists” is a list created by a group of researchers coordinated from Stanford University, which has been recently published in the prestigious journal Plos Biology, and in which the world’s elite in the world of scientific research is included. Among the authors recognized in the area of Artificial Intelligence […]

Study examines Artificial Intelligence as a means to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Noticia

Ferrovial has partnered with Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAI) and the University of Granada (UGR), through the DaSCI Research Institute, to examine the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a view to understanding how engineering and the technology solutions strongly anchored in Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help attain the goals. The UN established the […]

HINTS FOR YOUR RESEARCH CAREER Noticia

In September we are launching a cycle of seminars especially designed for those PhD students who are just starting out their research career. This series of seminars will take place every Monday at 16.30 and will last approximately 1 hour. The first speaker will be Francisco Herrera, director of the Institute. His first three seminars […]

The Government of Mexico invites Oscar Cordón, professor at the University of Granada, to give a talk on artificial intelligence in forensic science. Noticia

Professor Oscar Cordón, member of the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence, has made a dissertation at the request of the Mexican Government’s Directorate-General for Public Policy on Human Rights. The online talk, entitled ‘Artificial intelligence applied to forensic science’, was given as part of the seminar ‘Forensic science from a human […]

New international contribution by one of our researchers. Noticia

Ivan Palomares presented a tutorial in the SIGIR 2020 ACM Congress on Information Retrieval. “Reciprocal Recommendation: matching Users with the Right Users” aims to bring the youngest scientific community closer, the so-called reciprocal SRs that are characterized by recommending users to each other in a personalized way to connect or establish some kind of relationship […]

The DaSCI Director, Francisco Herrera will be a member of the Spanish Government’s Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence Noticia

Formed by outstanding personalities from the scientific, economic and educational fields, it is an advisory body for analysis, advice and support to the Government in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Francisco Herrera, Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada and Director of the Andalusian Research Institute in […]

Francisco Herrera calls for the creation of “intelligent territories” to combat future viruses that “isolate” cities Noticia

The director of DaSCI defends that science will be the one to allow us to get out of the health crisis and that should be used in the economic field “as an engine of development”. He also urges the “digital transformation” of the city councils The Digital Transformation of the city councils and the commitment […]

New Artificial Intelligence model has been developed in Granada to determine whether a patient suffers from COVID-19 Noticia

The Andalusian Research Institute on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Granada (UGR) and the Radiodiagnosis Service of the San Cecilio University Hospital are working on the development of an automatic system to detect the pulmonary affectation produced by Covid-19 through the patients’ chest X-rays. With a reliability of 80% we are […]

Researchers from the UGR apply AI techniques for the sharing economy platforms to find out how they manage user trust Noticia

A group of researchers including Manuel Chica, a researcher at the Institute, has published “Nature Scientific Reports” an article in which they develop their research by applying artificial intelligence techniques to collaborative economy platforms such as Airbnb or Blablacar in order to understand the mechanisms that govern them. Researchers from the University of Newcastle (Australia) […]

“Women need to be part of the digital transformation as well” Noticia

María José del Jesus Díaz, the only professor of the Area of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at UJA, and a founding member of the DaSCI Institute. “Currently there is a very low percentage of students in degrees linked to engineering, and the percentage is even lower than when I was studying. I think this […]

The project “CUSTODES. Intelligent systems for image processing and threat detection in conflict scenarios” is presented in Jaén Noticia

Led by researchers from the Institute, this project aims to develop software that will enable the Ministry of Defence to have Artificial Intelligence systems for decision-making. The project will be led by María José del Jesus and Francisco Charte as co-directors of the University of Jaén and Francisco Herrera and Siham Tabik as co-directors of […]

Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in the framework of South Tech Week 2020 Noticia

The “South Tech Week 2020” will take place in Granada 11-12th March 2020. This event will bring together more than 1000 people. The venue will be the “Palacio de Congresos” of our city. This event was announced on Tuesday at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering building of the University of Granada. After the presentation […]

UGR will lead a European Project for the creation of ultra-light intelligent structures for use in aircraft and wind turbines Noticia

The ENHAnCE project, in which 9 European institutions are participating, has been financed with 2.67 million euros. The coordination of a European project of the H2020 programme is a success for the University of Granada (UGR) and for the DaSCI Institute to which some of its principal researchers are affiliated. The consortium will be led […]