Milena-Jael SILVA

Milena-Jael SILVA

Urban data scientist. Smart city and territory specialist.

About

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:

  • Technological Innovation: Guided by IoT (Internet of Things), small and large-scale data analytics.
  • Institutional Innovation: Researching new governance frameworks and organizational strategies to facilitate the integration of AI solutions into urban service systems.
  • Social Innovation: Analyzing societal dynamics and trends to develop inclusive strategies that meet the changing requirements of urban and territorial systems.

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.

Interests

  • Data-driven smart service systems
  • Data science, Machine Learning, Generative AI
  • Social innovation
  • Water, energy, biodiversity data analytics
  • Urban & Territorial data analytics

Education

  • 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

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Co-founder | R&D director

Ecolonical

2023 – Present

Projets on urban services, proof of concepts (PoC).

Mission:

  • Design department
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Deployment of models
  • Social innovation
  • Ecological transition
 
 
 
 
 

Data scientist

Ministère de l’Intérieur

2022 – 2023 France

Diagnosis, definition and implementation of a data roadmap.

Mission:

  • Audit of databases, data quality, processes and data architecture.
  • Tuning of databases, implementation of a data quality approach, redefinition of a data architecture (CI/CD). Project management.
  • Definition of roles for a cross-functional data team.
  • Data roadmap strategy proposition to implement statistical analysis and effectively synthesize data: collection of needs, modeling and development of datawarehouses, reporting, OLAP cubes and dashboards.
  • State of the art.
 
 
 
 
 

Lead data scientist

Popote colors

2020 – 2022 France

Startup working on IA-based nutrition services.

Mission:

  • R & D
 
 
 
 
 

Metropolis project manager, data science and smart city program

Altran Technologies R & I

2019 – 2019 Saint-Herblain

Research program on data science applied to the smart city.

Mission:

  • Co-creation of Proofs of Concept (PoCs) for a “Crédit Impôt Recherche” (CIR) projet repport
  • Data analysis and machine learning modeling
  • Drafting of a European H2020 project proposal
  • Consortium constitution with partners from 4 continents (H2020 project of the RIA IncoFlagShip)
 
 
 
 
 

Doctorant contractuel : urban services smart city data analysis

DSI Grenoble-Alpes Métropole. ARC7: Innovations, Mobility, Territories and Urban Dynamics. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Grenoble-Alps University

2013 – 2018 Grenoble

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:

  • Smart city public service co-experimentation Mongroom experimentation (QR Codes and NFC tags)
  • Smart city working group participation
  • Public service design
  • Research on smart service systems
  • Qualitative and quantitative data and networks analytics
 
 
 
 
 

Computer engineer (Stage M2)

DSI Gaz Électricité de Grenoble, GEG (France)

2013 – 2013 Grenoble

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:

  • Implementation of a knowledge management system and a technical anomalies management tool for Grenoble gas and electricity service’s billing process
  • Benchmarking
  • Choice of tool and data migration
  • Deployment Tool
 
 
 
 
 

Data engineer

DSI Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos Domiciliarios (Colombia)

2011 – 2012 Bogota

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:

  • Data migration
  • Data cleansing and quality
  • Data analysis
  • Support of anomalies
  • Maintenance of oracle datawarehouse for the supply of water, sewage, energy, gas and LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) services.

Urban services projects

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External Project

Ecolonical Smart LAB external project website.

Internal Project

Some internal projects.

Recent Publications

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French labour market transformation in the smart cities era expansion. New smart service systems – New job skills policy development ?

This paper proposes a framework offering a way to highlight and analyse the labour market transformation which would be useful for creating public policy and anticipating the change of workforce skills concerning service industries such as art, culture, tourism, health.

From service logics, institutional pluralism and complexity to service system innovation? How are evolving innovation topics ?

This project proposes an integrative framework to service logics pluralism and complexity in service system innovation research design via a longitudinal review of innovation, service logics and service systems research over time.

Art, culture, and social

Habaneras

Choral co-interpretation

Folklore

Choral co-interpretation

Cultural

Software freedom day co-organisation

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