Milena-Jael SILVA is an urban service data scientist and smart city/territory specialist. She has worked within public, private, and mixed-sector organizations in Latin America (Colombia) and Europe (France), focusing on urban service delivery systems such as transportation, culture, energy, gas, water, tourism, and others.
She conceives the transformation of urban services as a multifaceted process, considering at least three dimensions:
Her research interests include co-creating inclusive and interoperable smart urban service systems. She is particularly focused on the various life cycle stages of urban data projects: ideation, prototyping, data structuring, heterogeneous data acquisition, data cleaning, data analysis/modelling, data visualization, and deployment.
Her goal is to contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and water, as well as to develop AI solutions to enhance urban and territorial services.
Ph.D., in Management of Urban Systems, and Territorial Data, 2018
Grenoble-Alps University (France)
M. Sc. Management of Information Systems and Organisations, 2013
Grenoble-Alps University (France)
BSc in Systems and Computer Engineering, 2011
Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia)
Academic exchange program, engineering school, 2008
École nationale supérieure d'informatique et mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG), Grenoble INP
Projets on urban services, proof of concepts (PoC).
Mission:
Diagnosis, definition and implementation of a data roadmap.
Mission:
Research program on data science applied to the smart city.
Mission:
As part of a pilot project for the interoperability of smart city urban public services at local, regional and national level named déploiement de services mobiles sans contact par les territoires, Programme d’investissements d’Avenir, PIA. 15 pilot projects for 14 French urban agglomerations: 1) Besançon; 2) Bordeaux; 3) Paris; 4) Rennes; 5) Lille; 6) Marseille; 7) Dijon; 8) Nice; 9) Mulhouse; 10) Caen-la-Mer; 11) Strasbourg; 12) Toulouse; 13) Toulon and 14) Grenoble.
Mission:
Gaz Electricité de Grenoble (GEG) is a local mixed company which produces renewable energies. GEG manages the gas and electricity distribution networks in Grenoble and also supplies electricity and gas throughout France.
Mission:
The Superintendence of Domiciliary Public Services (Superservicios) promotes and protects the rights and duties of users and providers of public services in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of Colombians, the competitiveness of the sector and the economic development of all the 1101 municipalities of the country.
Mission:
Ecolonical Smart LAB external project website.
Some internal projects.