Privacy Seminar - Nuria Ruiz Garcia
September 15, 2026 12:30PM—1:50PM
Location:
In Person and Virtual - ET
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Hamburg Hall 1002 and Zoom
Speaker:
NURIA RUIZ GARCIA,
Data Science Team, Netflix
In this session, we will talk about launching your career as a privacy professional, how to communicate the value you bring to the team once you land the role, how to frame privacy tradeoffs, the impact of AI on day-to-day work, and effective strategies for stakeholder management (e.g. getting buy-in from Legal, Product, and other teams). We will offer practical advice for working on large projects and in startups with a strong privacy component. Questions throughout the talk are encouraged; this session is intended to be a co-creation where we spend more time on the topics attendees feel are most relevant.
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Before curating datasets for the data science team at Netflix, Nuria led the Data Engineering team at Wikipedia where she spent almost a decade building privacy-conscious data infrastructure from scratch and thinking a lot about privacy-respecting metrics. She worked in social, mobile, and web performance at Tuenti, a social network in Spain before those were a thing. Most of her learning in computer science, performance and scale was done hands-on, on the job, while working at Amazon in the early days. Nuria is a physicist by training and started writing software in a Physical Oceanography Lab in Seattle. A long time ago. When Big Data was just called "science".
The Fall 2026 Privacy Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the Carnegie Bosch Institute
In Person and Zoom Participation. See announcement.
For More Information:
kcturner@andrew.cmu.edu