Ana Freire is the Vice-dean of Social Impact and Academic Innovation at the UPF Barcelona School of Management.
Previously, she was a researcher and lecturer at the School of Engineering at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). She has also worked at worldwide prestigious institutions such as Yahoo Labs, the University of Glasgow, and the National Research Center of Italy. Ana conducts research in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for economic and social impact, she has contributed with more than 50 scientific publications and several patents, and accumulates numerous national and international recognitions. Business Insider included her in the list of the 23...
- Operations, Technology & Science
- PhD in Computer Science
- Diploma of Advanced Studies
- Computer Science Engineering
Director
- Online Postgraduate Course in Data Management
- Master in Data Analytics for Business
Professor
- Online Postgraduate Course in Data Management
- Postgraduate Course in Data Protection and Information Security
- Online Postgraduate Course in Data Management
- Online Master in Auditing and Financial Management
- Master's in Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship
- Master in Supply Chain Management, Technology and Sustainability
- Master in Project Management and Culture of Change
- Postgraduate Course in Business Management
- International MBA in English
- Vicedean for Social Impact and Academic Innovation - UPF Barcelona School of Management
- Director of the Operations, Technology & Science Department - UPF Barcelona School of Management
- Head of the Academic Technology Unit - UPF Barcelona School of Management
- Visiting professor - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Faculty - Universidade da Coruña
- Ingeniera de Ventas - Denodo Technologies
- Research team member - Universidade da Coruña (Grupo de Ing. Telemática)
- Research team member - Universidade da Coruña (Grupo RNASA-IMEDIR)
Actividad Investigadora y transferencia
- ANDORRA, M., FREIRE, A., OTROS , O. (2024). Predicting disease severity in multiple sclerosis using multimodal data and machine learning. Journal of Neurology, Alemania.
- THEBEN, A. D., PLAMENOVA DJOUROVA, N., FREIRE, A. (2023). The “new currency of the future”: a review of literature on the skills needs of the workforce in times of accelerated digitalisation. Management Review Quarterly.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). Inteligencia Artificial, Salud Mental y Género. II CONGRESO IGUALDAD Y RRHH, España.
- FREIRE, A., SOLANS, D., RAMÍREZ-CIFUENTES, D., RÍSSOLA, E. (2023). Gender Bias When Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Anorexia Nervosa on Social Media: Data-Driven Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
- FREIRE, A. (2022). STOP: Suicide prevenTion in sOcial Platforms. AEGA-Cat Encontro 101, España.
- FREIRE, A., RAMÍREZ-CIFUENTES, D. (2021). Caracterizando la Anorexia Nerviosa en Twitter. Archiletras científica.
- RAMÍREZ-CIFUENTES, D., BAEZA-YATES, R., SANZ LAMORA, N., ÁLVAREZ, A., GONZÁLEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, A., LOZANO ROCHEL, M., LLOBET VIVES, R., VELAZQUEZ, D. A., GONFAUS, J. M., ... GONZÀLEZ, J. (2021). Characterization of Anorexia Nervosa on Social Media: Textual, Visual, Relational, Behavioral, and Demographical Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
- RAMIREZ-CIFUENTES, D., LARGERON, C., TISSIER, J., BAEZA-YATES, R., FREIRE, A. (2021). Enhanced Word Embedding Variations for the Detection of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues on Social Media Writings. IEEE Access.
- FREIRE VEIGA, A. M., RAMIREZ-CIFUENTES, D., LARGERON, C., TISSIER, J., BAEZA-YATES, R. (2021). Enhanced Word Embedding Variations for the Detection of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues on Social Media Writings. IEEE Access.
- RAMÍREZ-CIFUENTES, D., BAEZA-YATES, R., PUNTÍ, J., MEDINA-BRAVO, P., VELAZQUEZ, D. A., GONFAUS, J. M., GONZÀLEZ, J. (2020). Detection of Suicidal Ideation on Social Media: Multimodal, Relational, and Behavioral Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
- BAI, X., ARAPAKIS, I., CAMBAZOGLU, B. B. (2017). Understanding and Leveraging the Impact of Response Latency on User Behaviour in Web Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
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- FREIRE, A. (2022). ¿Contaminamos cuando guardamos nuestra información en la nube?. Libro: Perseguint el benestar planetari. Fundació Institut d'Educació Contínua, Barcelona, España.
- RAMÍREZ-CIFUENTES, D., LARGERON, C., TISSIER, J., FREIRE, A., BAEZA-YATES, R. (2020). Enhanced Word Embeddings for Anorexia Nervosa Detection on Social Media. Dir.: Michael R. Berthold, Ad Feelders, Georg Krempl. Springer International Publishing.
- RAMÍREZ-CIFUENTES, D., MAYANS, M. (2018). Early Risk Detection of Anorexia on Social Media. Springer International Publishing.
- RAMÍREZ-CIFUENTES, D., MAYANS, M., FREIRE, A. (2018). Early Risk Detection of Anorexia on Social Media. Dir.: Svetlana S. Bodrunova. Springer International Publishing.
- LEIVA, V., FREIRE, A. (2017). Towards Suicide Prevention: Early Detection of Depression on Social Media. Dir.: Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Jonathan Cave, Anna Satsiou, Georg Carle, Antonella Passani, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Sotiris Diplaris, Donald McMillan. Springer International Publishing.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). STOP: Suicide prevenTion in sOcial Platforms. European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA), Belgium.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). ¿Cómo la Inteligencia Artificial puede ayudar a la Salud Mental? IV Ciclo Aida Fernández Ríos. Real Academia Gallega de Ciencias., Spain.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). Inteligencia Artificial: entre bastidores. Jump2Digital, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). Inteligencia Artificial y datos: combinación ideal para ayudar a nuestra salud mental.. Cirion Forum, Ecuador.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). Inteligencia Artificial y datos: combinación ideal para ayudar a nuestra salud mental.. Cirion Forum, México.
- FREIRE, A. (2022). STOP: Suicide prevention in social platforms. Forum Europeo de Inteligencia Artificial.
- FREIRE, A. (2022). Algoritmos que salvan vidas. TRGConf 2022.
- FREIRE, A. (2022). STOP: Suicide prevenTion in sOcial Platforms. Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online: 4th International Conference, HELMeTO.
- FREIRE, A., HUPONT, I., GÓMEZ, E., TOLAN, S., PORCARO, L. (2022). Monitoring Diversity of AI Conferences: Lessons Learnt and Future Challenges in the DivinAI Project. 2022 Workshop in Diversity in Artificial Intelligence.
- FREIRE, A. (2022). Tecnología y Salud Mental: ¿rivales o aliadas? TEDx Deusto.
- FREIRE, A. (2022). Big Data e Inteligencia artificial para identificar patrones de suicidio. Congreso del Tercer Sector - Telefónica Fundación.
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- FREIRE, A. (2024). Las campañas de prevención del suicidio en redes sociales suben las peticiones de ayuda. La Voz de Galicia, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2024). La IA puede detectar el riesgo de suicidio en los usuarios de redes sociales. La Región, Ourense, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2024). Ana Freire Vega: "Culpar a la IA solo por sus malos usos es como si le hiciesen bullying". El Progreso.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). Cómo la IA puede contribuir a detectar conductas suicidas a través de las redes sociales. La Voz de Galicia, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). La inteligencia artificial y las conductas suicidas en las redes sociales. La Región, Ourense, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). La gallega Ana Freire abordará el uso de la IA para detectar conductas suicidas en redes. Metropolitano.gal, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). La Inteligencia Artificial como herramienta útil para la prevención del suicidio. COPE.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). Inteligencia Artificial en salud mental: así funciona STOP, el proyecto liderado por la ingeniera gallega Ana Freire. Cadena Ser, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2023). Ana Freire. El proyecto STOP.. RadioTelevisión Española, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2022). Redes Sociales ¿nos conectan o nos aíslan? Feitos, España.
- FREIRE, A. (2022). Ana Freire, médica de vocación e informática de profesión, defiende en esta fantástica charla TED la necesidad de unir tecnología y salud mental. The Reason Behind.
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