Prof. Fernando Perez-Cruz

Fernando Pérez-Cruz received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the Technical University of Madrid. He is a Sr Advisor on Innovation at the BIS and an adjunct Professor at the Computer Science department at ETH Zurich. He was the Chief Data Scientist at the Swiss Data Science Center. He has been a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs and an Associate Professor at the University Carlos III in Madrid. He has worked at Princeton University under a Marie Curie Fellowship and a Research Scientist at Amazon. He has also held positions at the Gatsby Unit (London), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tuebingen), BioWulf Technologies (New York). His current research interest lies in machine learning and its application to economics, sciences, and engineering. He has an h-index of 42.