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PhD student supervision

  • Germán Andrés Segura Tinoco. Argument mining and recommender systems. Tesis doctoral, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Fecha estimada: Octubre 2023.
  • Lissette Almonte García. Model-driven engineering and recommender systems. PhD thesis co-supervised with Esther Guerra, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Fecha estimada: Octubre 2022.
  • María Hernández Rubio. Aspect-based recommender sytems. PhD thesis co-supervised with Alejandro Bellogín. Expected date: June 2022.
  • Anita Khadka. Capturing and exploiting citation knowledge for the recommendation of scientific publications. PhD thesis co-supervised with Miriam Fernández, The Open University (UK). October 2020.
  • Ignacio Fernández-Tobías. Matrix factorization models for cross-domain recommendation: Addressing the cold start in collaborative filtering. PhD thesis. November 2016.
  • Pedro G. Campos. Recommender systems and temporal context: Characterization of a robust evaluation protocol in order to increase reliability of measured improvements. PhD thesis co-supervised with Fernando Díez. October 2013.
  • Alejandro Bellogín. Recommender system performance evaluation and prediction: An information retrieval perspective. PhD thesis co-supervised with Pablo Castells. November 2012.

MSc student supervision

  • María Hernández Rubio. Aspect-based sentiment analysis and item recommendation. MSc thesis. September 2017.
  • Guido Martín Pepa. A lightweight e-learning system to evaluate the impact of gamification in education environments. MSc thesis co-supervised with Francisco Jurado Monroy. September 2017.
  • Nicolás Rodríguez Artigot. Contextualized recommendations using a large-scale, generic context ontology semi-automatically built from DBpedia. MSc thesis co-supervised with Pedro G. Campos Soto. , June 2017.
  • Borja Gil Pérrez. Applying gamification to education: A case study in an e-learning environment. MSc thesis. September 2015.
  • Ignacio Fernández Tobías. An open semantic-based framework to build cross-domain networks and recommendations. MSc thesis. October 2013.

BSc student supervision

  • Jesús Viejo Tardío. A chatbot for accessing and retrieving open government data. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2020-2021.
  • Carlos Ramos Mateos. A conversational system to access information from an electronic citizen participation platform. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2020-2021.
  • Adrián Montero Masedo. A tool for the visualization and analysis of heterogeneous data about the city of Madrid. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2020-2021.
  • William Agostinho Guerrero D'Azevedo. A mobile application for multi-heritage tourism. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2020-2021.
  • José Antonio García Del Saz. A tool for downloading and analyzing Twitter data about citizen participation. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2018-2019.
  • David Paarup Pelaez. A tool for loading, integrating and processing Open Data: Validation with the Open Data catalogue of Madrid City Council. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2018-2019.
  • Manuel Gómez Velasco. Recommender systems for a e-participatory budgeting platform. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2017-2018.
  • Adrián Galán Fernández. A web platform for participatory budgeting in small- and medium-size municipalities. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2017-2018.
  • Celia Mateos de Miguel. A gamified e-learning platform with easy configuration and lightweight deployment [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2017-2018.
  • Sandra Cuevas López. An application for vulnerability management and security report generation [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2016-2017.
  • Rubén Rodríguez Paz. An advanced tool for the management of graduate theses [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2015-2016.
  • Eduardo Ruiz de Pascual Núñez. A question answering system over DBpedia [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2015-2016.
  • Jaime Zaballos Díaz-Maroto. A software tool for the management of graduate theses: Thesis proposal, assignment and defense module. [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2014-2015.
  • Eduardo Franco Gutierrez. A software tool for the management of graduate theses: Thesis evaluation committee module. [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2014-2015.
  • Arturo Bayo Martín. Processing and visualizing massive data in Search Engine Marketing campaigns. [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2014-2015.
  • Antonio Navarro Fernández-Aceytuno. A method to extract semantic networks from Wikipedia to support cross-domain recommendations. [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2014-2015.
  • Carolina Falcato Córdoba. Analyzing the relations between user personality types and preferences: Application to recommender systems [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2014-2015.
  • Ana Carmona Angulo. A mobile application for mood-based music recommendation [in Spanish]. Co-supervised with Ignacio Fernández Tobías. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2013-2014.
  • Alfredo de Cea Belló. Design and development of software applications for building Gamification-based learning activities [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2013-2014.
  • Pablo Ortega Moreno. A Web system for the estimation of company credit ratings [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2013-2014.
  • Álvaro José Casado Valverde. A system for entity extraction and opinion mining on user-generated Web contents [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2012-2013.
  • Carlos de la Cruz Fernández-Pacheco. A flexible tool for creating and managing adaptive Web questionnaires: Application to the design of forms about customer satisfaction with INE's online services [in Spanish]. Graduate thesis, BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Academic year 2012-2013.

Research visits


Invited talks

  • Recommender Systems and User-generated Content | Cross-domain Recommender Systems. Universidad Internacional de Andalucía - Summer school "Data Science and Machine Learning with Applications". Virtual event, August 2020.
  • Information Retrieval. 3rd Network Event of Lowcomote EU project. Virtual event, July 2020.
  • Ongology-based User Modelling and Recommendation. Universidad Nacional a Educación a Distancia - Master in Languages and Information Systems, and Master in Advanced Artificial Intelligence. Madrid, Spain, January 2015.
  • Introduction to Recommender Systems [in Spanish]. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Department of Computer Languages and Systems, Master in Interactive Computer Systems and Multimedia. Madrid, Spain, October 2012. [ZIP/PDF]
  • Competition as a teaching methodology: An experience applying problem-based learning and cooperative learning [in Spanish]. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Department of Computer Engineering. Madrid, Spain, May 2012. [ZIP/PDF]
  • Cross-domain Recommender Systems [in Spanish]. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Department of Computer Languages and Systems, Master in Interactive Computer Systems and Multimedia. Madrid, Spain, October 2011. [ZIP/PDF]
  • Bringing Semantics to Folksonomies: Application to Item Recommendation. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Faculty of Computer Science. Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, November 2010. [ZIP/PDF]
  • Recommender Systems [in Spanish]. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Department of Computer Languages and Systems, Master in Interactive Computer Systems and Multimedia. Madrid, Spain, October 2010. [Part I - ZIP/PDF] [Part II - ZIP/PDF]
  • Recommender Systems: definition, state of the art, and open research problems [in Spanish]. Universidad de Sevilla - Department of Computer Languages and Systems. Seville, Spain, April 2010. [Part I - ZIP/PDF] [Part II - ZIP/PDF]
  • Exploiting the Conceptual Space in Hybrid Recommender Systems: a Semantic-based Approach. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - Department of Computer Engineering. Madrid, Spain, November 2008. [ZIP/PDF]
  • Modelling User Interests from Multiple Folksonomies: Semantic-based Approaches [in Spanish]. Telefonica Research and Development (TID). Madrid, Spain, October 2008. [ZIP/PDF]

Journal editorial boards


Conference organizing committees

  • 1st Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE 2020) [programme committee chair]. Samatan, Gers, France, July 2020.
  • 27th ACM Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019) [workshops and tutorials chair]. Larnaca, Cyprus, June 2019.
  • 15th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2014) [programme committee chair - track Search, Matchmaking, Recommender and Comparison Systems]. Munich, Germany, September 2014.
  • 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personallization (UMAP 2014) [poster & demo chair, doctoral consortium mentor]. Aalborg, Denmark, July 2014.
  • 14th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2013) [session chair]. Prague, Czech Republic, August 2013.
  • 15th Spanish Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 2013) [session chair]. Madrid, Spain, september 2013.
  • 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personallization (UMAP 2013) [publicity chair, doctoral consortium mentor]. Rome, Italy, June 2013.
  • 9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMi 2011) [publication chair, poster session chair]. Madrid, Spain, June 2011.
  • 1st Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2010) [local organizer]. Madrid, Spain, June 2010.

Workshop organizing committees

  • 1st International Workshop on New Trends in Content-based Recommender Systems (CBRecSys 2014), at the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014). Foster City, CA, USA, October 2014.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Crowd Sensing (CrowdSens 2014), at the 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2014). New York, USA, August 2014.
  • 1st Challenge on Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems (LODRecSys 2014), at the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014). Crete, Greece, May 2014.
  • 1st International Workshop on Multimodal Crowd Sensing (CrowdSens 2012), at the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012). Hawaii, USA, October 2012.
  • 1st Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Exploitation from semi-Structured Online Sources (KEESOS 2011), at the XIV Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 2011). La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, November 2011.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2011), at the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011). Glasgow, UK, October 2011.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2011), at the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011). Chicago, IL, USA, October 2011.
  • 1st International Workshop on Social Object Networks  (SocialObjects 2011), at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2011). Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 2011.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2010), at the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010). Toronto, Canada, October 2010.
  • 1st International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2010), at the 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010). Barcelona, Spain, September 2010.
  • 1st International Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010), at the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010). Heraklion, Greece, May 2010.

PhD thesis panels

  • Lucia Siciliani. Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs. Supervised by Pasquale Lops. University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, November 2020. [external reviewer]
  • Luis Redondo Expósito. Sistemas de recomendación en contexto parlamentario basados en técnicas de aprendizaje automático y recuperación de información. Supervised by Luis Miguel de Campos Ibáñez and Juan Francisco Huete Guadix. Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, 24 June 2020.
  • Paolo Tomeo. Beyond Accuracy in Recommender Systems under the Linked Data lens. Supervised by Tommaso Di Noia. Politecnico di Bari, Italy, January 2017. [external reviewer]
  • Amit Tiroshi. Graph Based Recommendations: From Data Representation to Feature Extraction and Application. Supervised by Tsvi Kuflik, Shlomo Berkovsky. University of Haifa, Israel, February 2016. [external reviewer]
  • Henry Anaya Sánchez. Discovering and describing coherent and meaningful topics from document collections. Supervised by Rafael Berlanga Llavori. Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain, 25 January de 2016.
  • Juan Manuel Cotelo Moy. Análisis de Contenidos Generados por Usuarios mediante la Integración de Información Estructurada y No Estructurada. Supervised by José A. Troyano, and Fermín Cruz. Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, 3 September 2015.
  • Frederic Font Corbera. Tag Recommendation using Folksonomy Information for Online Sound Sharing Platforms. Supervised by Xavier Serra Casals, and Joan Serrà Julià. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 11 June 2015.
  • Lara Quijano Sánchez. Impact of social factors and organizations in group recommendation processes. Supervised by Juan Antonio Recio García, and Belén Díaz Agudo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 14 April de 2015.
  • Piero Molino. Semantic Models for Question Answering. Supervised by Pasquale Lops. Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italia, February 2015. [external reviewer]
  • Sergio Cleger TaMay. Diseño y Validación de Modelos para Sistemas de Recomendación. Supervised by Juan Francisco Huete Guadix, and Juan Manuel Fernández Luna. Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, 8 October de 2012.
  • Fernando de la Rosa Troyano. Sistemas de Inteligencia Web: Análisis de Redes Sociales. Supervised by Rafael Martínez Gasca. Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, 8 June de 2012.
  • Francisco Javier Ortega Rodríguez. Temporal Models in Recommender Systems: An Exploratory Study on Different Evaluation Dimensions. Supervised by José A. Troyano Jimenez. Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, 30 March 2012.
  • Fernando Enríquez de Salamanca Ros. Combinación de Sistemas mediante Aprendizaje Automático en Tareas de Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural. Supervised by José A. Troyano Jimenez. Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, 14 July 2011.

MSc thesis panels

  • Adrián Pertejo Mangas. Evolución de redes sociales con recomendación interactiva de contactos. Supervised by Pablo Castells Azpilicueta and Alejandro Bellogín Kouki. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 3 March 2021.
  • Antonio Amor Mourelle. Evolución de redes sociales con recomendación interactiva de contactos. Supervised by Pablo Castells Azpilicueta. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 21 September 2020.
  • Sergio Bachiller Rubia. Análisis y estudio de la participación ciudadana en la plataforma Decide Madrid. Supervised by Lara Quijano Sánchez. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 14 July 2020.
  • Beatriz Zurrera Martínez-Acitores. Recomendador de contenidos de Movistar+. Supervised by Alejandro Bellogín Kouki. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 20 September 2019.
  • Rus María Mesas Javega. Evaluación e integración de toma de decisiones en Sistemas de Recomendación. Supervised by Alejandro Bellogín Kouki. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 14 June 2017.
  • Carlos Villacampo Calvo. Procesos gaussianos para problemas de clasificación multi-clase en conjuntos de datos grandes. Supervised by Daniel Hernández Lobato. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 27 February 2017.
  • Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig. Contact recommendation: Effects on the evolution of social networks. Supervised by Pablo Castells Azpilicueta. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 22 February 2017.
  • Samuel Muñoz Hidalgo. Hierarchical text clustering applied to taxonomy evaluation. Supervised by David Camacho Fernández. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 10 October 2014.
  • Mario Poyato Pino. Extensión semántica de OML (Semantic-OML). Supervised by Jorge E. López de Vergara Méndez. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 10 October 2014.
  • Yvonne Gala García. Algoritmos SVM para problemas sobre big data. Supervised by José Ramón Dorronsoro Ibero. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 9 October de 2013.
  • Freddy Mauricio Tapia León. Aplicación de Tecnologías Open Data a los datos académicos de los docentes e investigadores de la ESP - UAM. Supervised by Mariano Rico Almodóvar. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 9 October 2013.
  • Guillermo Contreras Alcalde. Estudio de las Redes Sociales en la Educación. Supervised by Paloma Cáceres García de la Marina. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 16 July 2013.
  • Belén Saenz Rubio. En busca de principios gráficos para visualizaciones en la técnica de diseño de Programación Dinámica. Supervised by Ángel Velázquez Iturbide. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 16 July 2013.
  • Natalia Esteban Sánchez. Análisis de visualizaciones de la técnica de diseño de algoritmos de vuelta atrás. Supervised by Ángel Velázquez Iturbide. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 16 July 2013.
  • Alexandra Roshchina. TWIN: Personality-based Recommender System. Supervised by John Cardiff, and Paolo Rosso. Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland, July 2012. [external reviewer]
  • Luis Miguel Rivera Cumbicus. Integrando las tecnologías .NET y jQuery UI para la generación automática de aplicaciones Web. Supervised by Paloma Cáceres García de la Marina. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 28 June 2012.
  • Mazen Abdulmushlih Alsirhani. Análisis de sistemas de realidad aumentada y metodología para el desarrollo de aplicaciones educativas. Supervised by Liliana Patricia Santacruz Valencia. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 28 June 2012.
  • Antonio Ahijado Sánchez. Uso de IMS Learning Design en Collaborative Instruction Framework. Supervised by Maximiliano Paredes Velasco. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 28 June 2012.

Project proposal reviewing committees

  • 2020. United Nations E-Government Survey. United Nations.
  • 2019. Programa Impulso Tecnológico. Ministerio de Energía, Turismo y Agenda Digital, Spain.
  • 2019. Programa "Severo Ochoa" de Ayudas Predoctorales para la formación en investigación y docencia. Principado de Asturias, Spain.
  • 2019. Padova University research project funding program. Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
  • 2018. Programa Estatal Proyectos de I+D+i Retos Investigación. Ministerio de Economía y Empresa, Spain.
  • 2018. Austrian Science Fund stand-alone project proposal evaluations. Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria.
  • 2017. Proyectos de I+D del Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia. Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Spain.
  • 2017. AFR bilateral Singapore research programme. Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), Luxembourg.
  • 2014. Programa Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT). Ministerio de Educación - Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica. Chile.
  • 2014. Proyectos de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (PICT). Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica - Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (FONCyT). Argentina.
  • 2013. CORE multi-annual research programme. Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). Luxembourg.
  • 2013. Proyectos de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (PICT). Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica - Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (FONCyT). Argentina.

Journal paper reviewing committees

  • ACM Computing Surveys. ACM.
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. ACM.
  • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. ACM.
  • ACM Transactions on the Web. ACM.
  • Artificial Intelligence Journal. Elsevier.
  • Cities. Elsevier.
  • Computational Intelligence. Wiley.
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications. Elsevier.
  • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. Elsevier.
  • IEEE Communications Magazine. IEEE.
  • IEEE Internet Computing. IEEE.
  • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. IEEE.
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. IEEE.
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. IEEE.
  • IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. IEEE.
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. IEEE.
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. IEEE.
  • Information Retrieval Journal. Springer.
  • Information Sciences. Elsevier.
  • Information Systems. Elsevier.
  • Information Technology & People. Emerald Publishing.
  • Information Processing and Management. Elsevier.
  • International Journal of Electronic Commerce. M. E. Sharpe.
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Elsevier.
  • International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems. IGI Global.
  • Journal of AI and Data Mining. Shahrood University of Technology.
  • Journal of Computational Science. Elsevier.
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications. Elsevier.
  • Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. Elsevier.
  • Journal of Web Semantics. Elsevier.
  • Knowledge-Based Systems. Elsevier.
  • Language Resources and Evaluation. Springer.
  • Recuperación de Información: Un Enfoque Práctico y Multidisciplinar. Ra-Ma Editorial.
  • Sustainable Cities and Society. Elsevier.
  • Technology in Society. Elsevier.
  • User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. Springer.

Conference programme committees

  • 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems  (RecSys 2021) [senior program committee]. Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2021
  • XIX Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial  (CAEPIA 2020-21). Malaga, Spain, September 2021
  • 44th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  (SIGIR 2021). Virtual event, July 2021
  • 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization  (UMAP 2021). Virtual event, June 2021
  • 30th International World Wide Web Conference  (WWW 2021). Virtual event, April 2021
  • 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval  (ECIR 2021). Virtual event, March 2021
  • 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems  (RecSys 2020) [senior program committee]. Virtual event, September 2020
  • 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference  (ESWC 2020). Virtual event, June 2020
  • 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence  (ECAI 2020). Virtual event, June 2020
  • 29th International World Wide Web Conference  (WWW 2020). Virtual event, April 2020
  • 42th European Conference on Information Retrieval  (ECIR 2020). Virtual event, April 2020
  • 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems  (RecSys 2019) [senior program committee]. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2019
  • 42nd International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  (SIGIR 2019). Paris, France, July 2019
  • 28th International World Wide Web Conference  (WWW 2019). San Francisco, USA, May 2019
  • 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval  (ECIR 2019). Cologne, France, March 2019
  • 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining  (KDD 2018). London, UK, August 2018
  • 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems  (RecSys 2018) [senior program committe]. Vancouver, Canada, October 2018
  • XVIII Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial  (CAEPIA 2018). Granada, Spain, October 2018
  • 5º Congreso Español de Recuperación de Información  (CERI 2018). Zaragoza, Spain, June 2018
  • 41st International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval  (SIGIR 2018). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 2018
  • 29th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media  (Hypertext 2018). Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July 2018
  • 26th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization  (UMAP 2018). Singapore, July 2018
  • 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017). Como, Italy, August 2017.
  • 40th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017). Tokyo, Japan, August 2017.
  • 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2017). Prague, Czech Republic, July 2017.
  • 25th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personallization (UMAP 2017). Bratislava, Slovakia, July 2017.
  • 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017). Perth, Australia, April 2017.
  • 39th European Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017). Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, April 2017.
  • 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017). Limassol, Cyprus, March 2017.
  • 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016). Kobe, Japan, October 2016.
  • 35th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC 2016). Valparaiso, Chile, October 2016.
  • 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016). Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Septemebr 2016.
  • 24th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personallization (UMAP 2016). Halifax, Canada, July 2016.
  • 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2016). Halifax, Canada, July 2016.
  • 4º Congreso Español de Recuperación de Información (CERI 2016). Granada, Spain, June 2016.
  • 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016). Montreal, Canada, April 2016.
  • 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015) [Research track & In use track]. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, October 2015.
  • 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015). Vienna, Austria, September 2014.
  • 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2015). Chipre, September 2015.
  • 23rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personallization (UMAP 2015) Dublin, Ireland, July 2015.
  • 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015) [Research track]. Portoroz, Slovenia, June 2015.
  • 33rd International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (JCC 2014). Talca, Chile, November 2014.
  • 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014). [Research track & In use track]. Riva del Garda, Italy, October 2014.
  • 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014). Foster City, California, USA, October 2014.
  • 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2014). Santiago, Chile, September 2014.
  • 37th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014). Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014.
  • 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personallization (UMAP 2014). Aalborg, Denmark, July 2014.
  • 3rd Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2014). A Coruña, Spain, June 2014.
  • 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2014) [Information Retrieval & Question Answering track]. Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014.
  • 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) [Research track & In use track]. Sydney, Australia, October 2013.
  • 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013). Hong Kong, China, October 2013.
  • 14th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2013) [Recommender Systems track]. Prague, Czech Republic, August 2013.
  • 2º Congreso de Empresa 2.0 y Social Business (e2conf 2013). Seville, Spain, June 2013.
  • 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013) [Poster & Demo track]. Montpellier, France, May 2013.
  • 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2013). Aachen, Germany, May 2013.
  • 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) [In use track]. Boston, MA, USA, November 2012.
  • 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012). Galway, Ireland, UK, October 2012.
  • 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012). Dublin, Ireland, UK, September 2012.
  • 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2012) [Recommender Systems track]. Vienna, Austria, September 2012.
  • 2nd Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2012). Valencia, Spain, June 2012.
  • 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2012). Milwaukee, WI, USA, June 2012.
  • 1st Spanish Congress on Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business (e2conf 2012). Seville, Spain, May 2012.
  • 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2012). Porto, Portugal, April 2012.
  • 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012) [external reviewer]. Lyon, France, April 2012.
  • 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011). Chicago, IL, USA, October 2011.
  • 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011). Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 2011.
  • 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) [In use track]. Bonn, Germany, October 2011.
  • 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011) [revisor externo]. San Francisco, CA, August 2011.
  • 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2011) [Recommender Systems track]. Toulouse, France, August 2011.
  • 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011) [external reviewer]. Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.
  • 9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMi 2011). Madrid, Spain, June 2011.
  • 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010) [external reviewer]. Toronto, Canada, October 2010.
  • 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2010) [Recommender Systems track]. Bilbao, Spain, August 2010.
  • 1st Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2010). Madrid, Spain, June 2010.
  • 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2010). Toronto, Canada, June 2010.
  • 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009) [external reviewer]. Hong Kong, China, November 2009.

Workshop programme committees

  • RecSys 2020 Challenge. Virtual event, September 2020.
  • 6th Workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems  (CARS 2020). CVirtual event, September 2020.
  • 4th Workshop on Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios  (ComplexRec 2020). Virtual event, September 2020.
  • 1st Workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems  (OHARS 2020). Virtual event, September 2020.
  • 1st Workshop on Transparent Personalization Methods based on Heterogeneous Personal Data  (ExUM 2020). Virtual event, June 2020.
  • 1st Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems  (KaRS 2019). Beijing, China, noviembre 2019.
  • 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and User Modelling for Smart Cities  (UMCit 2019). Wurzburg, Germany, September 2019.
  • 3rd Workshop on Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios  (ComplexRec 2019). Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2019.
  • 5th Workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems  (CARS 2019). Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2019.
  • 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Recommender Systems by Knowledge Transfer and Learning  (RecSysKTL 2018). Vancouver, Canada, October 2018.
  • 2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios  (ComplexRec 2018). Vancouver, Canada, October 2018.
  • 1st Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and User Modelling for Smart Cities  (KDD-UMCIT 18). London, UK, August 2018.
  • 1st Workshop on Opinion Mining, Summarization and Diversification  (RevOpiD 2018). Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July 2018.
  • 2nd Workshop on Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring and Personalizing Interfaces  (HUMANIZE 2018). Tokyo, Japan, March 2018.
  • 1st Workshop on Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring and Personalizing Interfaces (HUMANIZE 2017). Limassol, Cyprus, March 2017.
  • 3rd International Workshop on New Trends in Content-Based Recommender Systems (CBRecSys 2016). Boston, Massachusetts, USA, September 2016.
  • 4th International Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE 2016). Boston, Massachusetts, USA, September 2016.
  • 1st Workshop on the Evaluation of User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (EvalUMAP 2016). Halifax, Canada, July 2016.
  • 1st Workshop on Surprise, Opposition, and Obstruction in Adaptive and Personalized Systems (SOAP 2016). Halifax, Canada, July 2016.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors (SIdEWayS 2016). Madeira, Portugal, April 2015.
  • 1st International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR 2016). Padova, Italy, March 2016.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Gamification in Education (gEducation 2015). Barcelona, Spain, November 2015.
  • 2nd International Workshop on New Trends in Content-Based Recommender Systems (CBRecSys 2015). Vienna, Austria, September 2015.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE 2015). Vienna, Austria, September 2015.
  • 1st International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors (SIdEWayS 2015). Cyprus, September 2015.
  • 1st Workshop on Deep Content Analytics Techniques for Personalized and Intelligent Services (DeCAT 2015). Dublin, Ireland, July 2015.
  • 1st International Workshop on Personality and Affect in Multimedia Retrieval (PAMUR 2015). Shanghai, China, June 2015.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Human Aspects of Making Recommendations in Social Ubiquitous Networking Environments (HRSUNE 2015). Qingdao, China, June 2015.
  • 8th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2014). Corfu, Greece, November 2014.
  • ACM RecSys 2014 Challenge: User Engagement as Evaluation (RecSys Challenge 2014). Foster City, California, USA, October 2014.
  • 1st International Workshop on Recommender Systems Evaluation: Dimensions and Design (REDD 2014). Foster City, CA, USA, October 2014.
  • 1st International Workshop on Learning through Video Creation and Sharing (LVCS 2014). Graz, Austria, September 2014.
  • 1st International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis (SoMeRA 2014). Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE 2014). Aalborg, Denmark, July 2014.
  • 1st International Workshop on Linking User Data (LiUD 2014). Aalborg, Denmark, July 2014.
  • 1st International Workshop on Human Aspects of Making Recommendations in Social Ubiquitous Networking Environments (HRSUNE 2014). Macau, China, June 2014.
  • 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2014). Haifa, Israel, February 2014.
  • 8th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2013). Bayonne, France, December 2013.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies meet Recommender Systems & Big Data (SeRSy 2013). Hong Kong, China, October 2013.
  • 1st International Workshop and Challenge News Recommender Systems (NRS 2013). Hong Kong, China, October 2013.
  • 1st International Workshop on Reproducability and Replication in Recommender Systems Evaluation (RepSys 2013). Hong Kong, China, October 2013.
  • 7th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2012). Luxembourg, December 2012.
  • 1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies meet Recommender Systems & Big Data (SeRSy 2012). Boston, MA, USA, November 2012.
  • 1st International Workshop on Recommendation Utility Evaluation: Beyond RMSE (RUE 2012). Dublin, Ireland, UK, September 2012.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb 2012). Montreal, Canada, July 2012.
  • 1st International Workshop on Learning from User-generated Content (LUC 2012). Edinburgh, UK, June 2012.
  • 6th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2011). Vigo, Spain, December 2011.
  • 1st International Workshop on Novelty and Diversity in Recommender Systems (DiveRS 2011). Chicago, IL, USA, October 2011.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation (SPIM 2011). Bonn, Germany, October 2011.
  • 1st International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendation Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA 2011). Girona, Spain, July 2011.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb 2011). Girona, Spain, July 2011.
  • 1st International Workshop on Social, Adaptive and Personalized Multimedia Interaction and Access (SAPMIA 2010). Florence, Italy, October 2010.
  • 1st International Workshop on Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms and Technologies (PRSAT 2010). Barcelona, Spain, September 2010.
  • 1st International Workshop on Dynamic Networks and Knowledge Discovery (DyNaK 2010). Barcelona, Spain, September 2010.
  • 1st International Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web (SASWeb 2010). Hawaii, USA, June 2010.
  • 4th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2009). San Sebastian, Spain, December 2009.
  • 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media (MSM 2009). Seville, Spain, November 2009.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2008). Prague, Czech Republic, December 2008.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2007). London, UK, December 2007.

Research courses

  • 7th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2009). University of Padova, Padova, Italy, September 2009.
  • 4th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2006). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Cercedilla, Spain, July 2006.

Teaching courses

  • Gamification. Virtual event, January 2021.
  • Online teaching: genial.ly. Online, June 2020.
  • Leadership and communication in the classroom. Madrid, June 2019.
  • Motivation and learning in High Education. Madrid, November 2018.
  • Effective expression of ideas. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, June 2011.
  • Google tools for teaching and research. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, June 2011.
  • Evaluation of learning competences. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, April 2011.
  • Software tools for research support. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, February 2011.
  • How to write abstracts in English. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, February 2011.
  • Problem solving-based Learning. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, July 2010.
  • Creating effective group work teams. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, June 2010.
  • Cooperative Learning. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, June 2010.
  • Concept maps as a teaching resource. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, January 2010.
  • Introduction to the teaching and research activity at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, January 2010.