Cristina Marquez is a PhD student within the NETCOM research team at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). Her areas of research interest are Big Data, Resource Management, Data Analytics and Mobile Networks (5G). She obtained her bilingual BSc in Telecommunication Engineering from UC3M in 2015. She enrolled right away in a bilingual Double Master Degree at the same University, where she completed the MSc degree in Telematics Engineering in 2017 and in Telecommunication Engineering in 2018, while she was pursuing her PhD in the field of Telematics Engineering.

She published 2 papers in prestigious international conferences such as ACM MobiCom (Core A* ranking) and ACM CoNEXT (Core A ranking) in her first year as PhD, completing the PhD program minimum requirements.

Her work as a Data Scientist raised the interest of MIT Senseable City Laboratory, where she was a visiting student in 2020.

She received 4 awards during her PhD: award of excelence from UC3M (2018, 2020), best MSc Thesis from COIT-AEIT (2019) and Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship.

University courses:

• (2019/2020): Multimedia Networks (Bachelor in Sound and Image Engineering - formerly: Audiovisual System Engineering, IT, 3rd course, 1ºC)

MSc Thesis:

• (2019/2020): MSc in Big Data Analytics · José Ángel Fernández Rodrigues · "Network slicing on new generation mobile networks using traffic flow clustering based on Wavelet Transformation" · Co-advisor: Dr. Marco Gramaglia

STEM initiatives:

• (2020/2021): Founder and mentor of Mit, organized with COIT GT Young Engineers. It starts in fall 2020, Spain.
• (2019/2020): Technovation Families mentor, Madrid, Spain.
• (2018/2020): Technovation Girls mentor of two Senior teams: LPSN (World Finalist, first podium-position in the regional event of Madrid) and Queens_of_the_code@UC3M.

Link to my ORCID

Link to my PUBLONS

JCR journal publications:

• C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs and X. Costa-Perez. "Resource Sharing Efficiency in Network Slicing", in IEEE ComSoc Transactions on Network and Service Management, Jun. 2019. doi:10.1109/TNSM.2019.2923265 Paper link.

Conference publications:

• C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs and Z. Smoreda. "Identifying Common Periodicities in Mobile Service Demands with Spectral Analysis", in Proceedings of the 18th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (IEEE MedComNet 2020), to be published.
• C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs and X. Costa. "How should I slice my network? A multi-service empirical evaluation of resource sharing efficiency," ACM MobiCom, New Delhi, India, Oct. 2018. doi:10.1145/3241539.3241567 Paper link.
• C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, C. Ziemlicki and Z. Smoreda. "Not All Apps Are Created Equal: Analysis of Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Nationwide Mobile Service Usage," ACM CoNEXT, South Korea, Dec. 2017. doi:10.1145/3143361.3143369 Paper link.

• Collaboration as reviewer in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications IEEE VTC-Spring 2019, 2020.

• C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, and A. Banchs. "How Often Should I Slice My Network?," ACM-W WomENcourage, September 2020. Link to ACM-W WomENcourage event.
• C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, C. Ziemlicki and Z. Smoreda. "Not All Apps Are Created Equal: Analysis of Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Nationwide Mobile Service Usage," ACM-W IPT, April 2018. Link to ACM-W IPT 2018 event.

European projects:
• 5G-NORMA 5G NOvel Radio Multiservice adaptive network Architecture (H2020-ICT-2015, 671584, 01/07/2016, 6 months).
• 5G-MoNArch 5G Mobile Network Architecture for diverse services, use cases, and applications in 5G and beyond (H2020-ICT-2016-2, 761445, 01/07/2017, 24 months).
• 5G-TOURS 5G SmarT mObility, media and e-health for toURists and citizenS (H2020-ICT-19-2019, 856950, 01/07/2019, currently).

Awards:
• Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Scholar 2020.
• Award of Excellence in the category of former students of University Carlos III de Madrid 2020. Video link
• FERMAX Award to the best Master Thesis in Spain in Communication Techniques at Residential Areas 2019 (Ed. XXXIX) organized by Colegio Oficial de Intenieros de Telecomunicación y la Asociación Española de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación. Video link
• Award of Excellence in the category of former students of University Carlos III de Madrid 2018.

Grants:
• Next Generation of Internet (NGI) Explorer, competitive call for establishing entrepreneurial collaboration between US and Europe 2020. Video link
• Tuition fellowship (Spring and Summer) at MIT 2020.
• Travel Grant for ACM-Women IPT 2019.
• Travel Grant for ACM Sigmobile MobiCom 2018.
• Travel Grant for ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
• Travel Grant for ACM-Women IPT 2018.

• Thesis Talk Finalist 2019 informative talk "5G: reparte y vencerás", Jul. 2019. Talk link.
• ACM-Women IPT 2019 informative talk "Estudiemos el uso de apps y su consumo a nivel nacional", Mar. 2019.
• Databeers Mad (Madrid) informative talk "Usos y costumbres de un país: una foto hecha con datos", Oct. 2018.
• C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, C. Ziemlicki and Z. Smoreda. "Not All Apps Are Created Equal: Analysis of Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Nationwide Mobile Service Usage," Imdea Networks Institute, Nov. 2017. Talk link.
• C. Marquez, R. Fanou, P. Francois and M. Mwangi. "Assessing peering evolution in Africa (Remote talk)," The 6th African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AFPIF 2015), Aug. 2015. Presented by R. Fanou, available here. Link to full document.

• COIT-AEIT (Spanish Guild of Telecommunication Engineers)
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• aRAC (Spanish Association of Royal Academy of Science)
• Systers-Spain (Systers.org)

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Latin American SumMIT (conference and hackathon) 2020.
• IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 as a volunteer.
• IEEE ICVES 2018 as a volunteer.
• Global Robot Expo 2016.

• Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Scholar 2020.
• Participant in ACM Celebration of Women in Computing (WomENcourage) 2020.
• Women In Theory (WIT) Workshop 2020.
• Interviewed at Womenalia: Women at Technology and Mujer Tech sections 2019.
• Participant in the promotional video of COIT-AEIT (Spanish Guild of Telecommunication Engineers) 2019.
• Appearance in media communications as mentor of LPSN (Technovation Girls team): national TV in Spain (e.g., La Mañana, Zoom Net programs from RTVE, LaSexta), radio (e.g., La Ser, COPE) and online newspapers (e.g., EuropaPress, Madri+d).
• N2Women dinner event at ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
• Interviewed at ACM-Women IPT 2019.
• ACM-Women IPT speaker 2018 & 2019.
• Girls in ICT Day 2017.
• Mentoring program Woman&Engineering 2017 (1st ed.), Real Academia de Ingeniería (Royal Academy of Engineering).