Associate Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at
Esade
URL Associate Professor
Investigador, ESADE D3 - Institute for Data-Driven Decisions
Biography
Marc Torrens is a Computer Science engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
UPC, Barcelona and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology EPFL, Lausanne. Marc has published more than 20 papers in international
conferences and journals, and is the inventor of more than 20 patents on recommendation
and personalization technologies. He also co-chaired the ACM Conference on Recommender
systems in 2010 with more than 400 experts from the academy and the industry. He also
regularly participates as reviewer in several international conferences on Artificial
Intelligence. His research focusses on how Artificial Intelligence can be applied
to solve problems business and people are facing. Marc is convinced AI technology
will help humans to overcome some of the challenges we always had and dramatically
improve our lives. Rather than following a traditional academic career, Marc spent
more than 20 years creating startups around Artificial Intelligence. He cofounded
Strands, Inc. in 2004, an established and recognized global Fintech company working
for top tier banks worldwide including Barclays, Deutsche Bank, BBVA, ING, Bank of
Montreal, BNP Paribas, Santander, Discount Bank, just to mention a few. From 2004
to 2018, Marc has been working at Strands as Chief Innovation and Product Officer
and currently serves the company as member of the Board of Directors. One of the most
remarkable achievements of the company was to build a portfolio of 20+ patents around
recommendation technology that was acquired by Apple, Inc.His genuine motivation is
to bridge the gap between the outputs of scientific research and the inputs needed
by real-world AI systems. Marc is passioned about bringing all his state-of-the-art
knowledge in Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship to ESADE to develop brilliant
managers, executives and entrepreneurs that transform the world in which we live.For
further information, please visit https://marctorrens.net.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 2382
Fax: +34 932 048 105