Marc Torrens
Professor @ ESADE
Barcelona, Spain
Marc Torrens is an innovator and engineer specializing in huge volume data-processing. Co-founder and CTO of Iconomic Systems acquired by i:FAO AG. Ph.D. Computer Science from Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyHe graduated in 1997 from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona with a degree in Computer Science. From September 1996to June 1997 he was completing his studies as an exchange student at the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland . During that period, he developed the first version of the well-known Java Constraint Library which is currently used by many public and private institutions around the world.He obtained a Ph.D. degree in 2002 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a thesis entitled "Scalable Intelligent Electronic Catalogs". His Ph.D. research was focused on electronic catalogs and constraint-based techniques, and raised a relevant business interest in the e-commerce field.In 1999, he co-founded Iconomic Systems S.A., a company that commercialized and developed further the concepts of his research applied to the travel domain. Iconomic Systems was financed with venture capital. From April 2000 to May 2001, besides his duties as co-founder of Iconomic Systems, he worked for the company as Technology Officer. Following the successful sale of Iconomic Systems to i:FAO A.G., he has been working for the company heading the i:FAO Future Lab. Since December 2002, he came back to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a half-time postdoctoral researcher while still pursuing his i:FAO duties. At i:FAO, he was working on a cutting-edge software for supporting the business traveler which benefits from advanced techniques of Artificial Intelligence and Usability fields. As a result of that research and development, he was inventor and co-inventor of two patents currently owned by i:FAO. His research mainly focused on context-aware computing and how to apply user models to mobile devices by using constraint-based reasoning.From 2002 to 2003, he completed his educational background with a postgraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship, organized by Create Switzerland , Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He was member of the team who won the first phase of the business plan competition Venture 2002 organized by ETH Zurich and McKinsey & Company, Switzerland . Their business plan summary was selected as one of the 10 best among 207 other participating teams.He is member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Marc has published more than 20 referred papers on his work in international conferences and journals on Artificial Intelligence and Usability. He fluently communicates in Catalan, Spanish, English and French.
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About ESADE
ESADE is an international academic institution with over fifty years of history. The main asset of this business school are people: faculty members and professionals who nurture reflection, dialogue, projects and initiatives to ensure excellent education, pioneering research and a valuable contribution to social debate and transformation.ESADE's key mission is to train individuals to become highly-competent professionals fully aware of their social responsibility. We promote education and research through our Law School and Business School with a firm commitment to intellectual rigour, critical analysis and academic excellence.The vast majority of ESADE's almost 40,000 alumni are ambassadors of these values in over one hundred countries and hold top-level posts in companies, public administration and the non-profit sector.ESADE's global prestige stems from its quality education, its international focus and its holistic approach towards professional and personal skills development.Throughout the years, ESADE has forged deep-rooted ties with the business, economic and social sectors as a platform for education and innovation, as a benchmark research centre and as a stage for reflection and dialogue. What's more, ESADE actively seeks out innovative solutions to the challenges of human resource and knowledge management, corporate innovation and globalisation, entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility, as well as the solution of legal problems related to new business challenges.I'd like to welcome you to our website, where you can discover details of our programmes, faculty and campus life. And should you decide, it would be our pleasure to work with you personally in the pursuit of your personal and professional goals.
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Javier Busquets
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Lisa Hehenberger
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Luis Vives
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Marc Torrens
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