Noyda Matos has an M.S. in Computer Science from Havana University, Cuba. Former Chief Information Officer for iSOCO, Noyda has a proven and extensive professional experience managing the design, development, and deployment of mission-critical applications and intelligent systems.
Noyda holds a five-year degree in Computer Science from Havana University , Cuba . In 1995 she received a fellowship from the Iberoamerican Institute - the Spanish International Agency for Cooperation - and initiated her Ph.D. thesis at the Technical University of Barcelona. She was a Ph.D student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research until 1998. Her research focused on automated agent negotiation and she published a number of articles in top artificial intelligence conferences.
In 1998 and 1999 Noyda was a research scientist at the Carlos III University in Madrid where she developed intelligent techniques for the SHAMASH project: Standards and Hierarchical Activities Modeling, Automatic Simulation and Heuristic Optimization.
In 1999, Noyda co-founded iSOCO (Intelligent Sotfware Components, SA) a Spanish company that applies Internet efficiencies to mission-critical applications. In iSOCO Noyda worked on the development of a real-time personalization tool for a large blue-chip company, on the development of e-stores for major retailers (e.g., Fnac, Lavinia), and in iSOCO’s Innovation Lab. In 2001 she became Chief Information Officer (CIO) and was responsible for effectively managing the development and deployment of iSOCO’s data warehouse. She left iSOCO in 2004 to lead the development of StrandsTM in Spain .
In 2003, Noyda co-founded Sequel R&D, SL a company that specializes in bringing artificial intelligence technologies to digital markets. Sequel R&D, SL has led the seed investment round of Strands.
