NAVESIERRA

Nave Sierra directs a contemporary art and research residency program in Spain's Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range. The initiative provides accommodation, mentoring, and production support to artists and researchers exploring regional cultural heritage and environmental themes. Program participants develop projects examining the relationships between local identity, natural landscapes, and creative practice. As Principal Data Scientist and Engineering Manager, Sierra has led technical teams at Google and Meta developing AI applications. Her work focuses on recommender systems, fraud detection infrastructure, and causal inference methodologies for large-scale platforms. She guides the architecture and deployment of machine learning solutions across multiple product domains. Sierra maintains a technical blog documenting advances in AI engineering, interpretable machine learning, and data science methodologies. Her published work spans both computational innovation and cultural research, connecting data science expertise with arts facilitation. The residency program and engineering practice form complementary aspects of her focus on technology-enabled creative investigation.