ECONOMICS - AI AREA WORKSHOP

Borja Mesa

Borja Mesa-Sanchez is an expert in the area of industrial organization. After finishing his Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics (with honors) at Universidad de Alicante he joined the Department of Economics of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid as a Post-doctoral fellow. He received a Masters Degree in Quantitative Economics, and his Bachelor’s Degree from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (with honors). His research is in competition policy, game theory and industrial organization. He has published in international scientific journals ranked in JCR by ISI. Borja teaches at undergraduate and graduate level and he has been the advisor for many senior thesis. He has worked in the department of training in Reuters, and he has won two literary awards.

José Manjarín

Prof. Juanjo Manjarín received the highest grade for his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in String Theory and M-Theory from the Universdad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), after earning an Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) in Theoretical Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).

His teaching experience ranges from Theoretical Mechanics or Classical Electrodynamics to Statistics and Econometrics, Coding or Social Media Analysis, this last at the IMBA in the IE Business School, which has been awarded with IE Excellence in Teaching in Mathematics II and Statistics. He has published several papers on international journals on mathematics and theoretical physics and was reviewer for Mathematical Reviews. Among his research interests, we can find purely theoretical or philosophical questions as well as the formal development of Data Science, particularly NLP, in the application of different technologies to Big Data and Social questions.