Àtia Cortés

Àtia Cortés
Born1985
Barcelona
CitizenshipSpanish
OccupationComputer scientist

Àtia Cortés Martínez (Barcelona, 1985) is a Spanish computer engineer, researcher and university professor.[1][2][3] She is an expert at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in the applications of artificial intelligence in health and social assistance.

Its scope of study is the bioethical, sociocultural and legal criteria for the development of this technology.[4]

She has been a member of various academic institutions, and has been part of research, ethical, legal and also feminism committees in information and communication technologies.[4][5]

Trayectoria

Àtia Cortés i Martínez was born in Barcelona in 1985 and graduated in Technical Engineering and Computer Systems from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2009.[6][7] He also obtained a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence in 2012 and, in 2018, he received a doctorate in AI with the thesis Interaction between people and intelligent walkers for gait analysis and fall prevention through learning methods and the i-Walker.[6][8]

She is a specialist in the applications of AI in the field of healthcare, and began working in data analysis as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Life Sciences belonging to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and also served as an associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.[4][6] She held this position between 2017 and 2020, where she taught classes in the Computer Science Degree and in the Artificial Intelligence master's degree that she had previously taken as a student.[5]

Years later, Cortés y Martínez maintained the techno-health aspect, but migrated his academic focus towards ELSEC considerations (acronym for the "Ethical, Legal, Social, Economic and Cultural" areas) that surround the generation and implementation of new Artificial Intelligences.[4][5] Given this more bioethical link, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce of Spain[9] proposed her as a new member of the Spanish Bioethics Committee in mid-2022.[7]

In their national and European research, which has included healthcare devices, clinical trials, the analysis of the performance of data sets or the development of autonomous vehicles, Cortés y Martínez has demonstrated the existence of inequalities such as racial inequalities, strong social biases and information,[3][2] data used to train AI models. For this reason, from the various work groups of which she has been a part, she has advocated concepts such as the retention of knowledge and talent, since according to her the added value produced by a community should always be superior to the massive data it generates,[10] highlighted the dangers of the possible socioeconomic gap represented by the different maturity of implementation of AI by large multinationals compared to that to which SMEs and research institutions can aspire.

In addition, it has adopted a discourse that supports gender parity in STEM disciplines; has defended a perspective of application of AI that allows intersectional feminism and against social inequality, especially in terms of the inclusion of more female clinical metadata that allows sufficiently representative conclusions for women and ethnic minorities.[1][2][3] She has participated in international networks such as Bioinfo4Women,[4] and in 2022, Forbes Spain magazine distinguished her as one of the 40 best futurists in Spain.[3][11]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Dones tecnòlogues". Ràdio 4 (in Catalan). 11 October 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "DFS Voices "We need a feminist and intersectional perspective to improve inequalities", with Àtia Cortés". Digital Future Society. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d ""Si los datos con los que se entrena la inteligencia artificial están sesgados, los resultados también lo estarán"". Agencia SINC (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2024-12-26. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  4. ^ a b c d e Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, ed. (2023-07-20). "Atia Cortés" (in Catalan). Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  5. ^ a b c admin.bioetica (2023-10-11). "Doña Atia Cortés Martínez". COMITÉ DE BIOÉTICA DE ESPAÑA (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  6. ^ a b c "Conferència: "El rol de les enginyeres per construir una IA propera a la societat"". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (in Catalan). 2021-11-17. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  7. ^ a b "El Comité de Bioética se renueva con nuevos perfiles de Enfermería, Pediatría y Neurociencia". ConSalud (in Spanish). 5 October 2022. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  8. ^ Cortés Martínez, Atia (2018-07-20). Human-smart rollator interaction for gait analysis and fall prevention using learning methods and the i-Walker (Doctoral thesis thesis). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
  9. ^ "La presidenta de la ABFyC, miembro del Comité de Bioética de España". Asociación de Bioética Fundamental y Clínica (in Spanish). Madrid. 2022-07-27. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  10. ^ "Will AI ease or exacerbate global instability? | Science|Business". sciencebusiness.net. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  11. ^ Molina, Esther (2022-07-04). "Lista Forbes | Los 40 mejores futuristas de España". Forbes España (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-04.