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Eva Navarro

Professor

School of Interactive Games and Media
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

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RIT, GCCIS, School of Interactive Games and Media, 152 Lomb Memorial Dr, GOL 2145, Rochester, NY 14623

Eva Navarro

Professor

School of Interactive Games and Media
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

Education

Eva Navarro, Ph.D., Polytechnics University of Catalonia (Spain); MSc, BEng, BSc, University of Alicante (Spain)

Bio

Eva is a scientist of international standing in hybrid dynamical systems, cyber-physical systems, network science, mathematical modelling, simulation, formal methods of computer science, symbolic artificial intelligence (AI), control engineering, complex systems, self-organisation, computational neuroscience, neuro-inspired computing, data science and collective intelligence.

Eva has developed her career in industry and academia in prestigious institutions in four different countries: the USA, the UK, México and Spain. She shadowed the footsteps of Alan Turing in Manchester, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal –the father of modern neuroscience– in Madrid. She is one of the world's experts in Turing's morphogenesis –having collaborated with Alan Turing’s last student. 

She is Full Professor in Computing in the School of Interactive Games and Media and former Director of the School of Information (iSchool) within the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at RIT.

Before moving to the USA, she was a Reader in Data Science in the UK. A Reader is equivalent to a Full Professor without a Chair and is a research-oriented permanent tenured post for senior academics with an international reputation in research. Just as a reference, Alan Turing, the father of artificial intelligence and modern computer science, was a Reader. She also worked more than 16 years at the University of Manchester in the School of Computer Science, and later in the Spatial Policy Lab of the Manchester Urban Institute and the School of Environment, Education and Development

Moreover, she is part of the core team of AI Mexico, which promotes AI education and its responsible adoption by industry, and TechnoLatinas. She is an expert of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab and member of the Science and Methodology Committee at the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). She was awarded the distinction of Distinguished Alumni Ambassador 2024 at University of Alicante. She is also a research affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at University of Cambridge. She is a co-founder of ACM-Women Europe and the womENcourage conference series and serves on the Advisory Council for Gender Music Tech. Her contributions have been recognised in Spain’s Guide to Women Leaders of the Business Ecosystem and the 2025


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National/International Competition Award Winner
Navarro-López, Eva M. Women in AI Ethics. 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics - 2025. International, International, 2025.
Navarro-López, Eva M. University of Alicante. Distinguished Alumni Ambassador. Alicante, Spain, 2024.
Navarro-López, Eva M. WITH and Spanish Government’s Ministry of Industry and Tourism. Women Leader of the Business Ecosystem. Madrid, Spain, 2024.
Journal Paper
García-Aguirre, Rogelio, Eva M. Navarro-López, and Luis Torres-Treviño. "Gen-CNN: a framework for the automatic generation of CNNs for image classification." Neural Computing and Applications 37. Published at web November 2024. Published in print 2025 (2024): 149-168. Web.
Published Review
Environment, International Panel on the Information. "Trends in the Global Information Environment: 2024 Expert Survey Results." Rev. of Trends in the Global Information Environment: 2024 Expert Survey Results, by International Panel on the Information Environment. Trends in the Global Information Environment: 2024 Expert Survey Results Nov. 2024: 1-33. Web.
Tech, Gender Music. "Music Gender Metadata Manifesto." Rev. of Music Gender Metadata Manifesto, by Digital Fems. Music Gender Metadata Manifesto Nov. 2024: 1-8. Web.
Journal Editor
Navarro-López, Eva M., ed. Simulation (Associate Editor). New York: Sage Publications, 2024. Web.
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Navarro-López, Eva M. "Imaging dynamic complexity." Imaging Science Seminar Series. Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY. 13 Nov. 2024. Keynote Speech.
Navarro-López, Eva M. "Life after AI: past, present and future of complex system." Inaugural seminar of the iSchool Insights (i2) series of talks. Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY. 19 Oct. 2023. Keynote Speech.
Published Conference Proceedings
Navarro-López, Eva M., et al. "The Impact of AI on Gender and Work: A Gender Analysis Framework." Proceedings of the Vienna University's Gender and Diversity Conference 2023. Ed. Claes, M-T., Hermann, A., Romo Pérez, A., & Stadlmann, M. Vienna, Austria: Vienna University\'s Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations, 2023. Web.

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