Albert
Obiols
Vives
Head of Data Science and Big Data
Albert
Obiols

Albert Obiols,  postgraduated in Big Data Management and Analytics,  Computer Science Engineer and Diplomat in Computer Systems all of them at the UPC – Barcelona Tech. He is currently head of the Data Science & Big Data Area of the inLab FIB, where he works since 1993.  He has been working in several projects for the University,  as for other institutions and companies. His fields of expertise are based on the data analysis and visualization, Big Data technologies, databases, web technologies,  Android native mobile applications and  academic management.

Main projects directed

The inLab FIB participates in an innovative project for the development of an interactive assistant based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), designed to facilitate the creation of extensive documents. This system will guide the user step by step in the elaboration of texts, ensuring coherence and precision.
ModpoW’s AgriTechnologies 2.0 project seeks to revolutionize agricultural irrigation and fertilization through modeling, automated learning and decision automation.

Main projects participated

An AI system that generates rose images from a sketch and a brief description. The result is an image with one or more roses that follows the shape of the sketch and tries to reflect the descriptive text.

Blog articles

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