Research interests

Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Generative Adversarial Networks, Robotics, IoT.

Education

• Telecommunications Engineering at University of Deusto
• Dissertation: A. Arranz, D. Iglesias, A. Moreno, T. Oraa (2016) Data analysis and telemetry applied to motorized vehicles
• Honored, ProUD Alumni, as one of the 44 historically featured students based on their careers. [Link]
• Represented my generation of students in the roundtable of the 40th anniversary of the faculty of engineering. [Panel picture] [Announcement]

Academy

• International MBA professor at IE Business School (BS Ranked #3 in Forbes) (2016-2019)
• Recognition of teacher excellence (2017-2018) [Image]
• (2018/06/21) Business Recognition Award. Reimagine Education Awards [Image]
• (2017/10/29) Asier Arranz. The IE Experience. IE Business School Magazine [Magazine scan]

Employment history

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IBM

Full-time employee (April 2019 - )
Company description: Major research organization, holding the record for most U.S. patents generated by a business (as of 2019) for 26 consecutive years.
Address: 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown. (New York) (United States)
Position: Quantum Community Lab Lead
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Explore the latest technologies (Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Embedded systems like Raspberry Pi or Arduino) with quantum computing concepts to build meaningful short-term projects.
• Form a team of web designers, developers, and creative technologists to collaborate across the organization.
• Propose, build, and measure new concepts, sites, and educational materials to teach and promote quantum computing to the next generation of software engineers.
• Strategize on new ways of reaching new and existing audiences.
• Collaborate and make creative decisions autonomously.
• Attract the most relevant global influencers on science and quantum to the Q community.
• Produce multimedia video content, with external collaborations, as part of a global content and influencer strategy.

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FACEBOOK (Oculus division)

Full-time fellowship (Oculus Acceleration Program) (June 2018 - Dec 2018)
Company description: American technology company specialized in virtual reality hardware and software products. Acquired by Facebook in 2014. Now is a part of Facebook Technologies, LLC.
Address: 1601 Willow Rd. 94025 Menlo Park. California (United States)
Position: Fellowship as part of their acceleration program.
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Develop a project with Oculus for 6 months during a virtual reality fellowship offered by Facebook
• Create a meaningful project with Unity for Oculus Go
• Publish the project into an internal ecosystem

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CONSENSYS

Full-time Contractor (Apr 2018 – June 2018)
Company description: Blockchain market leading company, founded by Josep Lubin, co-creator of Ethereum. [Source]
Address: 49 Bogart St #22. Brooklyn. 11206 New York (United States)
Position: Developer Program Manager (Contractor)
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Create blockchain tutorials for the community based on Ethereum blockchain
• Train the teachers that will use these exercises to teach business around the world, mainly in Singapur and Zurich.

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IE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Associate professor (Feb 2016 – mar 2019)
Company description: Business School ranked #3 in Forbes and #1 in Financial Times.
Address: María de Molina, 31. 28006 Madrid (Spain)
Position: Associate Professor
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Professor of the International MBA in the module "Tech-Primer for Non-Tech Creators"
• Professor of the International MBA in the module "The Social Media Interface"

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IE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Full-time employee (Feb 2016 – Apr 2018)
Company description: Business School ranked #3 in Forbes and #1 in Financial Times.
Address: María de Molina, 31. 28006 Madrid (Spain)
Position: Head of Technology Lab
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Create a lab to experiment with new technologies .
• Launch new products from the lab to position the business school as one of the most innovative in the world
• Launched "The WOWroom", an interactive semi-spherical room to teach up to 60 students in a very immersive way. [Article]

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Onirux Labs

Full-time (own company) with hired employees (Dec 2015 - Dec 2018)
Company description: An innovation studio with clients like Google, Kodak, AXA and Vorwerk Thermomix.
Address: San Vicente, 49. 48902 Barakaldo. (Spain)
Position: CEO
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Founding and creating a sustainable creative studio with medium-big corporate clients
• Innovating in new areas, like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

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Futura Networks

Full-time (Dec 2013 - May 2014)
Company description: Technological events for tech communities.
Address: Av. de Atenas, 10. 28290 Madrid. (Spain)
Position: Research & Development Director
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Manage the community of more than 30.000 developers around the world
• Attend to the events in Sao Paulo, Quito, London and Medellín to run innovative workshops and showcase new technologies
• Create a developer team to develop the main website for the events registration

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Atlanpix

Full-time (Sep 2012 – May 2013)
Company description: Startup invested by Wayra, the Venture Capital firm from Telefónica.
Address: Gran Via, 28, 8th. Edificio telefónica. 28013 Madrid (Spain)
Position: CTO & Co-founder
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Develop a mobile app to connect people throught common interests
• Manage the venture capital relation with Wayra, the accelerator that funded the company

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Nebutek Solutions

Full-time (own company) with hired employees (Sept 2009 - Dec 2015)
Company description: The first spin-of of the University of Deusto. Research and technology projects.
Address: Avenida Universidades, 24. 48014 Bilbao. (Spain)
Position: Co-founder with my university.
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Fund and launch the first spin-of from the University of Deusto, having the University as co-founder (12% of the company)
• Research on IoT products
• Collaborate with partners on innovation projects

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University of Deusto SmartLab

Internship Part-time (Jan 2009 - Sep 2009)
Company description: The Research and Development division of Telefónica. I was working on the robotics division.
Address: Torre Telefónica Diagonal 00. Plaça d'Ernest Lluch i Martin 5. 08019 Barcelona (Spain)
Position: Technical Support
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Develop a system to detect falls in elderdy people
• Implement the project in Java OSGi

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Telefónica R&D

Internship Part-time (Oct. 2008 - Oct. 2009)
Company description: The Research and Development division of Telefónica. I was working on the robotics division.
Address: Torre Telefónica Diagonal 00. Plaça d'Ernest Lluch i Martin 5. 08019 Barcelona (Spain)
Position: Technical Support
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Develop a system to request a robot that can guide you in an open place by using automatic enviroment navigation
• Implement the mobile app to request the robot
• Launch a proof of concept of the app in the Nokia N95 (Symbian)

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Endorasoft

Full-time (Sep. 2006 - May. 2007)
Company description: Smartphone hardware fixing and hardware carrier unlocking authorized company.
Address: Blas de Otero, 3. 48014 Bilbao (Spain)
Position: Technical Support
Detailed description of responsibilities:

• Repair hardware issues in smartphones
• Authorized unlock of smartphones by modifying their hardware

Professional services

Panels

• (2018/11/30) Virtual Reality Developers Roundtable. Google for Startups Campus [Roundtable picture]

• (2017/11/27) Virtual Reality Panel and Microsoft Hololens demonstration. DELL EMC [Image]

• (2017/06/28) XXV Automotive Forum: Smart mobility as the key for the future of the sector. Madrid Townhall, Department of Transportation. [Panel picture] [Link]

• (2017/05/05) Innovation working with startups. BIND 4.0: Industry 4.0 panel moderation: [Image] [Link]

• (2017/04/09) Engineering Faculty 40th anniversary. University of Deusto [Panel picture] [Announcement] [Announcement]

• (2016/12/05) Panel moderator: Spain VR Startups. Google for Startups. [Panel picture]

• (2016/10/06) Blockchain Panel. South Summit [Panel picture] [Image]

• (2016/09/01) Opportunities for startups in the Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 panel moderation [Google for Startups Spain] [Link] [Image]

• (2013/07/16) Summer courses. University of Cantabria [Image]

Reviewer

• (2017/02/22) Ambassador to the Innovators Under 35. MIT Technology Review

• (2014/01/28) Evaluator of the projects presented to the European Commission project FiWare (Sao Paulo, Brasil)

• (2012/11/15) Technical due diligence of the startup Job and Talent before raising €40M Link

• (2012/11/08) Technical due diligence of the startup BlinkBooking, before being acquired by Groupon [Link]

Organizer

• (2017/07/27) AI Love U Organizer. Artificial Intelligence Event [1st edition Image] [2nd edition Image]

• (2015/11/03) Tech Advisor at IBM Cloud and 360Fashion Network. City View Metreon San Francisco [Link]

• (2014/09/30) Mentor at Imagine San Francisco: Mentoring entrepreneurs in emerging technologies. [Imagine official account twitt]

• (2014/04/20) NASA Space Apps Challenge 2014 Organizer [Link]

• (2013/04/19) NASA Space Apps Challenge 2013 Organizer [Link]

Awards, prizes, and honors

• (2019/03/01) Winner at Qiskit Camp. Quantum Computing Hackathon by IBM. [Link]

• (2018/06/21) Global Top Writter. Medium [Image]

• (2017/06/24) Honored by the Spanish Air Force due to the recordings of some of their maneuvers with the Boeing EF-18 for Virtual Reality. [Image] [Image]

• (2016/03/01) First Wave Developer. Microsoft Hololens [Image] [Video Review]

• (2015/09/21) Winner at Techcrunch Disrupt. *1st place Ricoh Prize. 2nd place Qualcomm Prize. 1st Place Dolby Price. [Link]

• (2014/12/02) Winner at El Mundo Newspaper Hackathon. A 15K€ prize to create the best app for the digital transformation of the newspaper [Article in the newspaper]

• (2014/11/27) Finalist Intel Real Sense Developer Challenge. [Link]

• (2014/05/30) Winner Google-BBVA InnovaApps+. Prize by BBVA in collaboration with Google, for a project made for the Google Glass. [Link]

• (2014/06/07) Winner at TAD Hack Oracle [Picture]

• (2013) Biotech Winner. Merck Pharma

• (2012/07/03) Wayra Winner. Telefónica [Picture]

• (2012/03/02) Moile World Congress Green Hackathon Winner. Telefonica. [Link]

• (2011/10/15) Double Winner Campus Milenio [Image] [Link]

• (2010/04/10) Innovation Winner. Campus Europa 2010. [Link]

• (2009/11/07) Finalist Google Developer Challenge with Nebudroid. [Link] [Link]

• (2009/05/20) 1st Prize Open Mobile Forum. Telefónica. [Link]

• (2008/05/27) Nokia Mobile Rules Finalist. Nokia Headquarters. Espoo. Finland [Link]

Complete list of intellectual property

• 3D printed support to connect a pair of 220FOV cameras, to achieve a full 360 camera with stitching. [Design] [Cameras] [Installation on aircraft] [Robot stereoscopic concept]

• AskSkynet: An online website that allows you to query the OpenAI GPT-2 algorithm online. This was made public before OpenAI launch any tool to allow the public usage of the GPT-2 algorithm. [Source code]

• Quantum Computing Unity Asset: A component that allows the Unity Game Engine to be connected to a real Quantum Computer [Source code]

• QBitSign: Timestamp and certification based on a quantum computer and the blockchain [Link]

• Google Glass BBVA App: An application made on Google Glass connected to the corporate Google calendar of BBVA that provides scheduling capabilities and other features to the employees.

Complete list of conference/workshop presentations and invited talks

Conferences

• (2019/05/28) Artificial Intelligence with Unity. Google for Startups Campus [Image] [Video]

• (2019/05/14) Deep Reinforcemente Learning in Unity with ML-Agents. Techfest 2019 [Invitation] [Conference video]

• (2019/04/25) Main Stage Speaker. TalentLand 2019 [Image] [Image] [Image]

• (2018/11/30) How to make a VR game in a lunar phase. Google for Startups Campus [Announcement] [Conference picture]

• (2017/05/27) Artificial Intelligence. AI Love U: Artificial Intelligence Event [1st edition Image]

• (2017/01/18) Emerging Technologies and their social impact. BBVA Innovation Centre [Link] [Link]

• (2016/07/24) The rise of augmented reality. Connected in 360. Palma de Mallorca. [Conference picture]

• (2016/06/02) Bots and artificial intelligence for custommer service ENDESA Digital Day [Endesa official account Twitt] [Image] [Image]

• (2016/05/21) Keynote speaker: Stater of the Art of VR/AR ecosystem. Silicon Valley Chinese Tech Association. [Diploma] [Magazine]

• (2016/05/06) Virtual Reality, the new UX. UX Spain [Conference picture] [Link] [Link]

• (2016/02/19) Startups in the insurtech market. AXA. [Link]

• (2015/07/05) Emerging Technologies. TEDx Cibeles [Image]

• (2015/04/18) Android as the core of Virtual Reality Droidcon Dubai [Droidcon official account Twitt] [Image]

• (2014/10/05) Emerging Technologies. Campus Ecuador (Quito) [Conference picture]

• (2013/09/26) Virtual reality, real perception: Tricking your brain TEDx Alcarria. [Image]

• (2013/09/05) How to create a tech laboratory. Campus London [Conference picture]

Workshops

• (2017/03/17) Exponential Technologies (20 hours). Cantabria Government. [Image] [Video Interview]

• (2014/01/31) Google Glass Development Workshop. Campus Brasil (Sao Paulo) [Picture from Google Glass]

• (2014) Game Development Courses

• (2013/07/26) Game Development Workshop. Euskal Encounter [Picture]

• (2013) Repsol Tech Business Workshop

Complete list of publications

Scientific journals

JMIR: Journal of Medical Internet Research [Impact factor 4.671]

• (2012/11/29) Crowdsourcing Malaria Parasite Quantification: An Online Game for Analyzing Images of Infected Thick Blood Smears. J Med Internet Res. 2012;14(6):e167. [Link]

Citation counts: 105 [Google Scholar link]

Featured articles and magazines [By topic]

Artificial Intelligence

• (2018/04/01) How I used a chatbot with my students. Chatbotslife.com [Link]

• (2018/03/21) Your data will pay the universal basic income. Chatbotslife.com [Link]

Blockchain

• (2018/03/27) IE Business School has launched #IEToken, a pilot program based on blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies. IE Business School. [Link]

IoT

• (2017/04/03) Smart Cities and Digital Transformation. Ideas Magazine. [IE Business School] [Link]

• (2014/06/22) Asier Arranz, a technical wizard. IBERIA Airlines Onboard Magazine [Picture of the magazine]

Virtual Reality

• (2018/07/30) The developer Asier Arranz manages to enter inside Mario Kart. LA GUIA Newspaper [Newspaper]

• (2016/12/18) Capturing the Virtual World. Pro Moviemaker Magazine [Magazine Scan]

Others:

• WebVR Portfolio. A WebGL based portfolio. [Link]