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Miguel Luengo-Oroz is currently the Chief
Data Scientist with the United Nations Global Pulse,
New York, NY, USA, and the Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and Big Data Innovation Initiative of the United
Nations (UN) Secretary-General. He is also with
the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid.

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