NATALIA ANA
DÍAZ RODRÍGUEZ

Natalia Díaz Rodríguez has a double PhD degree (2015) from University of Granada (Spain) and Åbo Akademi University (Finland). She is associate professor (prof. Titular) at the DaSCI Andalusian Research Institute in data science and computational intelligence (DaSCI.es) at the Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Granada (Spain) since May 2024. Earlier, she was Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher. During 4 years, she was Assistant Prof. of at the Autonomous Systems and Robotics Lab at ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique Paris, INRIA Flowers team on developmental robotics, and she worked on open-ended learning and continual/lifelong learning for applications in computer vision and robotics. She has worked in Silicon Valley, CERN, Philips Research, University of California Santa Cruz and with FDL Program with NASA. Her current research interests include explainable and trustworthy AI, neural-symbolic learning and reasoning, AI for social good and algorithmic auditing. She cofounded the non-profit organization ContinualAI.org and worked doing Responsible AI Governance industry assessments and writing the guidelines for the regulatory sandbox pilot of the AI Act for the Spanish Secretary of Estate. She has received multiple prizes and is listed in the «Ranking of the World’s Top 2% Scientists» from Stanford University (California) that identifies the most relevant scientists in the world according to the impact of their publications' citations.