María holds a MSc in Computational Intelligence from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), specialized in Aspect-based sentiment Analysis and Item Recommendation. Before, she graduated in Mathematics and Computer Engineering at UAM. She is Senior Data Scientist in BBVA AI Factory and was one of the first Data Scientists in BBVA, taken part of the Big Data ecosystems set up in the bank. She has worked in several analytical domains, ranging from Retail and Urban Analysis to Customer Intelligence in the recent years. Now she is trying to enhance the customers’ relationship with the bank through Natural Language Processing and Text Analytics. María focuses on understanding business challenges and developing the best analytical solution for each problem. She also likes to tell about the team’s work at university students.