Silvia Sellán is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. Prior to Columbia, she worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and her B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Oviedo. At Columbia, she leads the “Geometry and the City” laboratory, whose mission is to find real-world problems involving three dimensional geometry and solve them in a way that improves people’s lives.