Miguel Luengo-Oroz

Description

Scientist, entrepreneur, policy advisor and engineering professor passionate about imagining and building responsible technology for social impact. He is a pioneer and a thought leader in the use of big data and artificial intelligence for global health, humanitarian action and sustainable development. Miguel has been the first data scientist working at the United Nations.
He is the former Chief Data Scientist of UN Global Pulse at the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, where he was responsible for technology strategy, and grew & led the data science teams across the network of Pulse labs. He advises leadership on frontier technologies and implications for governance and human rights. He is currently the founder and CEO of Spotlab, a digital health platform leveraging the best AI and mobile technologies for clinical research and universal diagnosis. Dr. Luengo-Oroz is professor at the doctoral school and board member at the Telecommunications School of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. As research scientist, he has worked in topics as generative AI & creativity, collective intelligence, systems biology & neurogeometry. He is the inventor of MalariaSpot.org -a crowdsourcing videogame for malaria diagnosis. Miguel is trustee of the Ashoka foundation in Spain.