Mrs. Cristina Pruenza | Inteligencia Artificial in Sepsis Detection | Excellence in Innovation Award

Technical Manager at Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento(IIC), Spain

Mrs. Cristina Pruenza is a Data Scientist and Technical Director at the Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento since 2022, specializing in algorithms, artificial intelligence (neural networks, fuzzy logic, expert systems), databases, and data collection. Previously, she served at the same institution as Data Scientist and Project Manager (2019–2022) and as Data Scientist and Technical Leader (2014–2019), after beginning her professional career as a Data Scientist intern at ADIC (2013–2014). She holds an Executive MBA from IE Business School (2020) and two Master’s degrees from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Computer Engineering and in Research and Innovation in ICT (both 2016). She also earned dual Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2014, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary academic background that supports her leadership in applied artificial intelligence and data-driven projects.