José Camacho is Full Professor in the Department of Signal Theory, Telematics and Communication and head of the Computational Data Science Laboratory (CoDaS Lab), at the University of Granada, Spain. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada (2003) and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Valencia (2007), both in Spain. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Girona, granted by the Juan de la Cierva program, and was a Fulbright fellow in 2018 at Dartmouth College, USA. His research interests include networkmetrics and intelligent communication systems, computational biology, knowledge discovery in Big Data and the development of new machine learning and statistical tools.
Luz García is Associate Professor at the University of Granada, Spain, and member of the Research Centre for Information and Communications Technologies (CITIC-UGR). She obtained her M.Sc. Degree in Telecommunication Engineer from the Polytechnique University of Madrid, Spain, in 2000. Aftert 5 years of experience as Technical Support Specialist Engineer at the company Ericsson S.A. (2000- 2004) she was recruited as researcher (2004-2008) by an European Research Project from the University of Granada, Spain. She obtained her Ph.D in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Granada in 2008. She has held positions of Assistant /Associate Professor at the University of Granada since 2007/2019 until today. She has led several research projects on the topic of distributed acoustic sensing, having authored d 30 JCR papers. Her research interests: machine learning approaches and automatic signal processing applied to the diverse fields of knowledge: automatic speech processing, volcano-seismic signals analysis, communication networks and distributed acoustic sensing.
She has a degree and PhD in Physical Sciences by University of Granada (Spain), and a PhD in Computer Sciences and Electronics by University of Cagliari (Italy). At the present time she is Associate Professor at Signal Processing, Telematics and Communications of the University of Granada. She has participated in several research projects supported by European, National and Regional funds. Her main research interest is related to signal processing, artificial vision and bio-inspired systems for real time processing. She is co-author of three international patents in exploitation. She co-founded Seven Solution S.L. in 2006. The company is a technology-based spin-off of the University of Granada with high expertise on embedded systems. Until 2009 she worked in the company as scientific advisor and Project manager.
Prof. Samuel Morillas has a BSc in Computer Science from Unvieridad de Granada and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in Spain. From 2019 he is a full professor of the Applied Math department at UPV, where he is a member of the Instituto of Pure and Applied Math. His undergraduate teaching includes fundamental algebra and calculus for first-year students and Continuous modeling for the 3rd year students of the Data Science degree. His graduate teaching at UPV concerns fuzzy logic and applications. He has also been an invited professor in a series of Universities: University of Granada (Spain), Rochester Institute of Technology (NY, USA), Chonbuk National University (South Korea), University at Buffalo (NY, USA), Colorado University at Boulder (Co, USA), Harvard University (Massachusetts, USA), University of Edinburgh (UK) and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (Finland), where he has taught different courses and seminars about fuzzy logic, image processing, and image appearance models. His research has been focused on fuzzy logic and fuzzy metrics both in the theoretical field and, mostly, in their applications. He has developed different solutions based on fuzzy logic and fuzzy metrics for problems in different fields including image processing, color science, and pavement engineering. He has published more than 50 papers in scientific journals and presented more than 70 contributions to scientific conferences.
Diego Madariaga is a postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA Networks Institute, in the Network Data Science (NDS) group. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chile in 2023. During his PhD, he carried out substantial research grounded on traffic measurements and the realization of experimental platforms for anticipatory networking, mainly focusing on topics related to network protocols and network monitoring. Currently, his research focuses on the analysis, characterization, and modeling of mobile network traffic.
Raquel Conde Muíño is a general surgeon at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves in Granada, with a special focus on colorectal surgery, peritoneal oncological surgery, and robotic surgery. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1999. She subsequently completed her specialty at the Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge in Barcelona. In 2005, she moved to Granada where she has developed her entire professional career. She holds a PhD from the University of Granada for her thesis "Gene signatures of response to neoadjuvant treatment in rectal cancer."
Professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada. Her research is mainly focused on the study of the influence of the intestinal microbiota on the pathology of diseases such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, asthma, etc. For this, she uses omics techniques, such as metagenomics, metabolomics, epigenomics. Together with these techniques, in collaboration with Dr. Camacho, they are using data analysis techniques that allow them to understand the complex mechanisms that contribute to the development of non-communicable diseases. Currently, his research activity is summarized in 49 publications in JCR, and he has an H index of 23, according to Web of Science.
Michael Sorochan Armstrong completed his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Alberta in 2021, where he also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow until August 2022. He received specialised training in multivariate statistics and machine learning from the International School of Chemometrics at the University of Copenhagen in 2019 and completed a research internship in the MacBio Lab at Soochow University in 2016. His research interests include unsupervised learning, tensor decomposition, and applied mathematics. He currently works as a Data Scientist in the CoDaS lab, analysing climate and remote sensing data with the LifeWatch ERIC program.
Jesús García Sánchez is a PhD candidate at the CoDaS Lab, supervised by Dr. José Camacho and Dr. Luz García. His PhD research is funded by the MuSTARD project and focuses on the multiscale analysis of spatio-temporal research data. He holds a MSc in Physics and Mathematics, with specialization in Biomathematics. He first joined the CoDaS Lab through the DigiVolCan project, where he worked with seismic data to assist in the forecast of volcanic eruptions using multivariate analysis.
Marco Fiore is a Research Professor at IMDEA Networks Institute, where he leads the Networks Data Science group, and a co-founder and CTO at Net AI, a UK-based network intelligence company. He received MSc degrees from University of Illinois at Chicago and Politecnico of Torino, a PhD degree from Politecnico di Torino, and a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Université de Lyon. Marco has held tenured positions at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon and National Research Council of Italy, and has been a visiting researcher at Rice University, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and University College London. Marco's research has received funding from the European Commission and national agencies in Spain, France and Italy, and has been awarded a number of prizes including the best paper award at IEEE INFOCOM. Marco is a former Marie Curie fellow and Royal Society visiting research fellow, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of ACM. Marco's research interests are at the interface of mobile networks and data science.
Born on September 10, 1965, in LLiça de Vall, province of Barcelona. Graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Seville in 1989. Doctor of Medicine from the University of Córdoba in 1995. Title of Medical Specialist in Medical Oncology at Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba in 1994. Master's in Translational Oncology. Currently Head of the Medical Oncology Service of the UGC of Oncology at the University Hospital of Jaén. Member of various Scientific Societies in the field of Oncology. Active participation in multiple clinical and translational trials with a special interest in breast cancer. Author of numerous book chapters and more than 100 publications in national and international journals.
Caridad Díaz has a degree in Biochemistry and Biology and a PhD in Pharmacy by the University of Granada (Spain). She has been working at Fundación MEDINA for more than 14 years and currently hold a senior researcher position. She has experience in the development of new analytical methods in liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry for drug and metabolites analysis. With a strong background in metabolomics studies, applied to the discovery of new biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of different pathologies, mainly in cancer. Her research has been focused on metabolomics, drug discovery and ADME processes. She has published more than 60 publications in JCR with an H index of 24, according to Google scholar.
Regino Jesús Zamora Rodríguez is a Professor of Ecology at the University of Granada with a PhD in Biological Sciences. His research focuses on plant-animal and plant-plant interactions and their impact on ecosystems under global change. He is one of the most cited Spanish ecologists and has been recognized among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University. He has extensive experience in managing research teams and promoting research activities. He has supervised 15 PhD theses, with many of his students becoming university professors and senior researchers. He collaborates with public administrations on environmental management and is the scientific coordinator of the Sierra Nevada Global Change Observatory. He is also involved in the European Lifewatch Infrastructure, focusing on mountain ecosystems and advanced technologies for environmental analysis.