Núria Agell is a professor in the Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences and director of the Institute for Data-Driven Decisions at Esade. She holds a degree in Mathematics (University of Barcelona, UB) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UPC-BarcelonaTech for a dissertation on artificial intelligence, specifically around qualitative reasoning modelling. She is an active member of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (ACIA) and the EURO Working Group on Multi-criteria Decision Aiding.
Her main research interests are in the development of artificial intelligence techniques and decision-making systems. In particular, she works on learning algorithms, qualitative and fuzzy reasoning, multi-criteria and group decision-making, recommending systems and consensus modelling.