Main Figures

Here I would like to share some relevant information to highlight actions that have had special relevance in my career:

Research projects and agreements

Member of UNE CTN71/SC 9 Big Data as representative of CCII.
Member of UNE CTN71/SC 307 Blockchain as representative of CCII.
H2020 Expert evaluator. (May 2017)
HPI Future SOC Lab-Project approved under title “Spectral clustering and multiple regression techniques to analyze the on-line communities of RTVE”. (April 2017)
Member of the Research Agreement (“Cátedra de Investigación”) between TRC and UC3M to boost research in the field of systems engineering and interoperability. (January 2017-now)
Technical Coordinator of the Research Agreement (“Cátedra de Investigación”) between RTVE and UC3M to boost research in the field of Big Data, Linked Data, Complex network analysis, Natural Language Processing, etc. applied to social network analysis. (October 2015-now)
Main researcher of the European Celtic+ project Internet of DevOps. (Nov. 2018-now)
Researcher of the European H2020 ECSEL project AMASS. (April 2016-now)
Director of the Communications of the Spanish Chapter of INCOSE. (February 2016-now)
Researcher in the database of the Joint Research Center-European Commission (selection procedure EPSO/CAST/S/5/2013 – Quantitative Sciences). (2013)
Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (Postdoctoral) within Information & Knowledge Management Research Cluster at South East European Research Centre (SEERC). (2013)
HPC-Europa2 Transnational Access programme: collaborative research visits using High Performance Computing. SARA Amsterdam. (2012)
Participation in the data portal of The Webindex project and as national expert on Linked Open Data. (2012-2013, 2015).
Participation in more than 30 research projects at regional, national and European levels (see Projects section).

Research activities

Author of 20 JCR articles (see Publications section).
Author of 62 conference/workshop papers and book chapters (see Publications section).
Guest editor of the JCR special issue Scientific Programing Techniques and Algorithms for Data-Intensive Engineering Environments (2016-2017)
Guest editor of the JCR special issue Special Issue on Educational Applications on the Web of Data: New trends and perspectives (2017-2018)
Guest editor of the JCR special issue New trends on E-Procurement applying Semantic Technologies (2013-2014)
Chair of of the SNAA (The 8th Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications) (2018).
Organizer of the SESE (South European Systems Engineering) Tour (2014, 2016, 2017).
Organizer of CRYSTAL – “Final dissemination event” in conjunction with 5th European Conference on Interoperability for Embedded Systems Development Environments. (June 2016).
Chair of the “Systems Thinking” session at INCOSE-IS 2016.
Serving as reviewer more than +100 times for 24 JCR journals
Serving as reviewer and PC of more than 30 conference and workshops
Author of more than 20 research project deliverables.
Member of the OSLC Requirements Management Working Group and OMG.
Two bubbles (PSCs and CPV) in the Linked Open Data Cloud Diagram.

Academia

Positive evaluation as Associate Professor by the ANECA. (April 2016)
Coordinator of the Spreadsheets Course at UC3M. (September 2017)
Coordinator of the Software Engineering Course at UC3M. (September 2017)
Co-director of the PhD Thesis “MATURITY BASED APPROACH FOR ISMS GOVERNANCE” by Knut Haufe (Apto Cum Laude). (May 2017)
Co-director of the PhD Thesis “A CLOUD-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYTICS ON HIGHLY DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS” by Alejandro Vera Baquero (Apto Cum Laude). (October 2015)
Instructor of the edX MOOC course “The Software Architect Code: Building the Digital World” (May 2016-now).
Instructor of the UC3M SPOC course “Programming in Java” (May 2017).
Instructor of the UC3M SPOC course “Agile Methods” (May 2017).
Director of the UC3M SPOC course “The Spreadsheets Manager” (December 2018)
Supervisor of 7 final master thesis.
Supervisor of 45 final degree projects.
Member of the evaluation panel of final degree projects and master thesis (102).

Short-bio

Dr. Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez is Master of Computer Science (2007) and Bachelor of Computer Science (2005) by the University of Oviedo. In June 2008 he was rewarded with the “Best Final Degree Project in Computer Science” by the Official Association of Computer Engineers of Asturias (Spain) thanks to this project “Activation of concepts in ontologies through the Spreading Activation Technique”. From 2005 to 2010 he worked at the R&D Department in the Semantic Technologies area within CTIC Foundation, more specifically he has worked in projects related to semantic web services, rule based systems, cloud computing, search systems, linked data, etc. He has also participated in more than 30 research projects in different competitive programmes, At the same time he held a position as part-time Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2012 at the Department of Computer Science within the University of Oviedo. He also worked in the WESO Research Group (University of Oviedo) and holds a PhD about e-Procurement and linked data: MOLDEAS-“Methods On Linked Data for E-procurement Applying Semantics” supervised by the Prof. Dr. José Emilio Labra Gayo. He is the author of more than 60 publications and other research works in the main international venues and impact factor journals in which he also participates as reviewer, editorial board member and guest editor, e.g. Journal of Computers in Industry. In 2012, he was also rewarded with a HPC2-Europe Transnational Access Programme grant at SARA (Netherlands), hosted by the ISLA research group leaded by Prof. Marteen De Rijke at the University of Amsterdam. From January to August 2013 he held a position as Marie Curie Research Fellow (Experienced Researcher) at SEERC (Thessaloniki, Greece) within the RELATE-ITN FP7 project researching in “Quality Management in Service-based Systems and Cloud Applications“. Currently, he is Associate Professor within the Deparment of Computer Science at the Carlos III University of Madrid. In the meantime he is part of the research group “Knowledge Reuse” (at the same University) leaded by Prof. Dr. Juan Lllorens.

Grants and Stays

As a key-important activity in researching I have obtained some grants and made stays in other research institutions.

Grants

HPC-Europa2 Transnational Access programme: collaborative research visits using High Performance Computing. SARA Amsterdam.

Stays

ENGINE – European research centre of Network intelliGence for INnovation Enhancement” supervised by Prof. Dr.
Przemysław Kazienko. The Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology. From 21st of July 2014 to 15th of September 2014.
Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam supervised by Prof. Dr. Maarten De Rijke. University of Amsterdam. From 23rd of July 2012 to 15th of September 2012.

Contact

Name: Dr. José María Alvarez Rodríguez (Associate Professor)
Phone: +34 916245958
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, 2.1.B.08
Carlos III University of Madrid, Avd. de la Universidad, 30, Leganés, Madrid, Spain 28911

Cloud Computing-TEIDE 2011

Work Experience

Associate Professor within the Deparment of Computer Science at the Carlos III University of Madrid and researcher of the “Knowledge Reuse” group (at the same University) leaded by Prof. Dr. Juan Lllorens. From July 2018-now.
Visiting Professor within the Deparment of Computer Science at the Carlos III University of Madrid and researcher of the “Knowledge Reuse” group (at the same University) leaded by Prof. Dr. Juan Lllorens. From September 2013-July 2018.
Member of the Advisory Board of the The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) in Sri Lanka.
Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (Postdoctoral) within Information & Knowledge Management Research Cluster at South East European Research Centre (SEERC). From January 2013 to August 2013.
Senior Researcher within Computer Science Department at University of Oviedo. WESO Research Group. Working in projects related to semantic web, e-procurement, e-health, etc. From November 2010 to January 2013.
Assistant Professor within Computer Science Department at University of Oviedo at University of Oviedo. From October 2011 to January 2013.
Assistant Professor within Computer Science Department at University of Oviedo.
Cod: F036-75-DL0X041-AL6H. BOPA Nº 181, August 4, 2008. November 2008-September 2009.
Senior Researcher at R&D Department in CTIC Foundation. Working in projects related to semantic web: rule based systems, semantic search and semantic web services. IT Analyst. Software development and IT. From April 2006 to February 2010.
Scholar Researcher at R&D Department in CTIC Foundation. . Software development. From April 2005 to March 2006.

Education

Following a list of the official degrees:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science (with a distinction “cum laude”). Department of Computer Science, University of Oviedo. September 2009-June 2012.
Research Work. Doctorate Program 34.1-“Internet computer systems and services”. Computer Science Department at University of Oviedo. Title: “Interoperability and integration in Service Oriented Architectures using Semantics” Qualification: First Class.
Master of Computer Science, University of Oviedo. Thesis: “Ontospread: applying Spreading Activation techniques to ontologies”. Qualification: Proposal for First Class with Distinction. November 2007.
Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Oviedo Thesis: “Flex: Fitness Language Extended”. Qualification: First Class. January 2005.

Moreover I have attended other courses in order to complete my education:

The Reasoning Web Summer School 2011.
Course: “Introduction to electronic DNI (Spanish ID)”. 8h. 2010.
Course: “Introduction to digital signature”. 8h. 2010.
Course: “Introduction to Services Management”. 1h. 2010.
Course: “Law about personal data protection in Spain. LOPD.”. 10h. 2010.
Course: “Methodologies and Certifications”. 1h. 2010.
Course: “Introduction to software engineering. Lifecyles.”. 2h. 2010.
Course: “Introduction to XBRL”. 5h. 2010.
Course of “Management of FP7 projects”. 20h. FADE (Asturian Federation of Entrepreneurs). November 2009.
Course online of “Leadership and management of human resources”. 150h. CREA institute. March 2009.
Course FSE: “Mobile Internet Architecture”. 22h. December 2006.
Course of “Computer Science Specialist Reporter”.14h. COIIPA. December 2005.
Course Extension of University of Oviedo: “XML, Web Services and Semantic Web”. 45h. March 2004.
Course Extension of University of Oviedo: “Building web sites with CSS”. 45h. October 2003.
Course Extension of University of Oviedo: “Vector Graphics with Macromedia Flash”. 45h. October 2003.
Course: “Advanced Java”. 175h. Fundación Metal Asturias – Avilés. July 2003.