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                  August 2024 Present08/2024 Present Research associate 
 AI4BioMed Lab, University of Glasgow (https://ai4biomed.org/)Research on natural language processing for extracting information about cancer mutations from biomedical publications.  Project title: Creation of a knowledgebase of high quality assertions of the clinical actionability of somatic variants in cancer 
 Role: Post-doctoral researcher
 Funder: National Institutes of Health, USA
 Period: Since August 2024
 Natural language processing for the quality of biomedical publications.
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                 November 2021 July 202411/2021 07/2024 Research associate 
 Terrier Team, University of Glasgow (http://terrierteam.dcs.gla.ac.uk)Research on recommendation in the financial domain.  Participation on the ICURe Explore programme (October 2023 cohort). 
 Team: FAR-AI
 Role: Entrepreneurial Lead
 Funder: InnovateUK
 Period: October 2023 to January 2024
 Market analysis and hypothesis testing on commercialization of financial asset recommendation technologies. Project title: FAR-AI: Deployment of AI-based Financial Asset Recommendation System 
 Role: Primary investigator
 Funder: EPSRC (Impact Acceleration Account project)
 Period: August 2023 to October 2023
 Development of an investment platform for the UK market. Project title: PPC-FI: Personalized Portfolio Construction for Financial Investments 
 Role: Primary investigator
 Funder: EPSRC (Impact Acceleration Account project)
 Period: April 2023 to July 2023
 Research on portfolio management and optimization functionalities. Integration on an investment recommendation platform for financial advisors, in collaboration with the National Bank of Greece Project title: Infinitech 
 Role: Post-doctoral researcher
 Funder: European Comission (Horizon 2020)
 Period: November 2021 to March 2023
 Research on recommendations in the financial domain. Development of an investment recommendation platform for financial advisors, in collaboration with the National Bank of Greece
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                 June 2015 May 202106/2015 05/2021 Predoctoral researcher 
 Information Retrieval group, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (https://ir.ii.uam.es).Research on people recommendation in social networks, social network analysis (link prediction, structural metrics, information diffusion), recommendation objectives beyond accuracy and multi-armed bandits for recommendation. 
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                 May 2019 July 201905/2019 07/2019 Visiting researcher 
 Terrier Team, University of Glasgow (http://terrierteam.dcs.gla.ac.uk)Research on information retrieval models for contact recommendation in social networks. 
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                 June 2013 August 201306/2013 08/2013 Programmer 
 Everyview S.L.Spanish Language Route project Development of the project webpage, using Joomla, MySQL and PHP, mainly web services and payment platforms and development of computer game functionalities, using Unity3D and C#. 
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                 October 2016 May 202110/2016 05/2021 PhD in Computer Science and Telecommunication 
 Universidad Autónoma de MadridPhD thesis: Contact recommendation in social networks: algorithmic models, diversity and network evolution 
 Supervisor: Pablo Castells
 Score: Outstanding
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                 September 2015 February 201709/2015 02/2017 MSc in Information and Communications Technology Research and Innovation 
 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpecialization: Computational Intelligence 
 GPA: 9.32 / 10
 4 mentions of honor: “Information Retrieval”, “Machine Learning: Theory and Applications”, “Numerical and data intensive computing” and “Temporal Information Processing”.
 MSc thesis: Contact recommendation: Effects on the evolution of social networks.
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                 September 2015 February 201709/2015 02/2017 MSc in Computer Science 
 Universidad Autónoma de MadridGPA: 9.52 / 10 
 4 mentions of honor: “Advanced topics in Networking and Internet”, “Embedded, distributed and ubiquitous systems”, “Graphics, Multimedia and Virtual Environments”, “Interactive Systems Development”.
 
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                 September 2010 June 201509/2010 06/2015 Double BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics 
 Universidad Autónoma de MadridGPA: 9.23 / 10 (top 3% of my year) 
 28 mentions of honor: including “Artificial Intelligence”, “Neurocomputing”, “Information Search and Mining” and “Fundamentals of Machine Learning”.
 BSc thesis: Metasearch engine with session management and interleaving A/B testing.
- Guest lecture on evaluation and production of recommender systems at the recommender systems course at the IE University (in Spanish, April 2022).
- Lab teaching of "Information search and mining", 4th year BSc on Computer Science. January to May 2018, 2019 and 2020.
- Lab teaching of "Analysis of algorithms", 2nd year BSc on Computer Science. September 2019 to January 2020.
- BSc thesis supervision
                    - Mousa, J. TradeMind. University of Glasgow. August 2023.
- Lunny, L. iTrade: The financial portfolio generation tool. University of Glasgow. August 2023.
- Miranda, B. Information diffusion modeling on Twitter. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. June 2018.
- Amor, A. Link prediction and recommendation in social networks. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. June 2019.
- López, E. Multi-armed bandits in recommendation. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. June 2019.
 
- Excelence scholarship in BSc studies. Regional Government of Madrid. 2012 to 2015 (every year)
- Research scholarship in MSc studies. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. October 2015 to October 2016
- PhD scholarship (FPI grant). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. March 2017 to September 2018.
- PhD scholarship (FPU grant). Spanish Government. September 2018 to May 2021
- Second Prize Best Paper Award at the BioNLP workshop at ACL 2025
- Best Poster Award at the 2025 University of Glasgow Computational Biology Conference (CompBio 2025)
- Programming languages: Java, C, Python, PHP, Matlab.
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, QuestDB.
- Operating systems Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10), Unix (Ubuntu, CentOS)
- Other tools: Maven, Git, Docker.
- General purpose software: LaTeX, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & Powerpoint).
- Spanish:Native speaker
- English: Working proficiency
                    - Certificate of Advanced English (CAE). July 2018. Cambridge University. 
 Level 2 Certificate in ESOL International.
 Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) C1 Level.
- Graded Examination in Spoken English (GESE), Grade 11. June 2008. Trinity College London. 
 Level 2 Certificate in ESOL International (Speaking and Listening).
 Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) C1.2 Level.
 
- Certificate of Advanced English (CAE). July 2018. Cambridge University. 
- French: Basic notions.
- Students' representation:
                    - Course delegate. 2011 to 2016
- BSc students' general delegate. 2014 to 2015
- Students' representative in "New Curricula" commision. 2014 to 2015
- PhD students' representative in Computer Science department council. 2017 to 2021
 
- Reviewer:
                    - Reviewer of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal (AILA)
- Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Information Systems journal (ACM TOIS).
- Reviewer of the User Modeling and User-adapted Interaction journal (UMUI).
- Reviewer of the ACM Transactions on Web journal (ACM TWEB).
- Reviewer of the AI Communications journal.
- Reviewer for the latest-breaking results track for the 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020).
- Subreviewer for The Web Conference 2021 (TheWebConf 2021).
- Short paper program committee member for the 44th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021).
- Program committee member for the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021)
- Program committee member for the 45th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022)
- Program committee member for the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022)
- Program committee member for the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022)
- Program committee member for the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024)
- Short Paper Program committee member for the 47th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024).
- Program committee member for the 5th ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024).
- Program committee member for the 48th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025).
- Program committee member for the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)
- Program committee member for the 6th ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2025)
- Program committee member for the 19th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2026)
- Program committee member for the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026)
 
