Carme Torras

Carme Torras
Portrait of Carmen torras
Born	(1956-07-04) 4 July 1956 (age 68)
Language	Catalan
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	University of Barcelona University of Massachusetts Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Genre	Fiction
Subject	Robotics, Artificial intelligence

Carme Torras Genís (born 4 July 1956)[1] is a Spanish computer scientist who has contributed to research on robotics and artificial intelligence. A member of Academia Europaea since 2010, she writes technical works in English and fiction in Catalan.[2][3]

Biography

Torras studied mathematics at the University of Barcelona (master's 1978) and computer science at the University of Massachusetts (master's 1981). She also earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1984.[3] Since 1991, she has been a research professor at the Spanish National Research Council.[4]

On the literary front, in addition to her scientific works, Torras has written fiction. For her novel Pedres de toc she was awarded the Premio Primera Columna while her La mutació sentimental (2008), won the Premio Manuel de Pedrolo for science-fiction literature. In 2012, she published Miracles perversos.[5][6]

Selected publications

• Alenya, Guillem; Torras, Carme (2007). Robot Egomotion from the Deformation of Active Contours. INTECH Open Access Publisher. ISBN 978-3-86611-283-4.
• Torras, Carme (2012). Computer Vision: Theory and Industrial Applications. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-3-642-48675-3.
• Torra i Genís, Carme (1985). Temporal-pattern learning in neural models. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-16046-5.

Awards

• 2000: Narcis Monturiol Medal for scientific accomplishments[7]
• 2007: Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
• 2010: Member of the Academia Europaea[8]
• 2013: Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona[9]

References

1. "BOE núm. 103: Martes 30 abril 1991" (PDF) (in Spanish). BOE. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
2. "Torras, Carme" (in Catalan). ducros.cat. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
3. "Carme Torras Genís" (in Catalan). Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
4. "Carme Torras". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
5. GoodReads website, Miracles perversos
6. "Torras i Genís, Carme". Silvia Bastos. Retrieved 8 November 2015.^[permanent dead link‍]
7. UPC, CIT (2020-11-19). "Researcher Carme Torras, National Research Awards 2020". CIT UPC. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
8. Academia Europaea website, Carme Torras
9. ResearchGate website, Carme Torras

External links

• Carme Torras: Brief CV