Data Analytics: A Theoretical and Practical View from the EDISON Project

About Juan J. Cuadrado-GallegoYuri Demchenko

Dr. Juan José Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alcalá in the area of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science of the Concordia University in Montreal Canada. Previously he was a professor at the Spanish Universities Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona from 2004 to 2016 the University of Valladolid in Segovia in 2004 and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Madrid between 1997 and 2004. He has been Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Software and IT Engineering of the École de Technologie Supérieure at the Université du Québec à Montréal in Montreal Canada from 2009 to 2015; and Visiting Professor in the Postgraduate and Research section of the Faculty of Administration and Management of the National Polytechnic Institute inMexico City Mexico from 2009 to 2014. He was also a researcher in the Department of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Sciences from the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid in Madrid Spain from 1994 to 1997. Juan José has a degree in Physical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1994; obtained in Recognition of the research sufficiency in the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid in 1997; and the Doctorate in Computer Engineering at the Carlos III University of Madrid in 2001 with the qualification of A cum laude unanimously by the court. It currently has 4 six-year periods and 3 five-year periods. In 2010 she obtained the Outstanding Research Pathway certification by the National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP) of the Secretary of State for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Science and Innovation within the program I3 Program Incentive for the Incorporation andIntensification of Research Activity. Juan José has carried out research stays at the Universities: University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Holland at the Informatics Institute of the Faculty of Science in 2018 funded by a mobility grant from the University of Alcalá; at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Germany at the Institüt für Verteilte Systeme de la Fakültat für Informatik in 2013 funded by a mobility grant from the University of Alcalá in 2012 within a sabbatical year granted by the University of Alcalá in 2009 funded by a José Castillejo for further studies and research from the University of Alcalá; at the Université du Québec à Montréal in Montreal Canada in the Department of Software and IT Engineering from the École de Technologie Supérieure in 2006 and 2005; at the University of Reading in Reading United Kingdom in the Computer Science Department in 2005 and 2004; and the Università Roma Tre in Rome Italy in the Dipartamento di Informatica e Automatizacione in 2004 and 2003. Juan José is currently researching in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. He has made more than 200 scientific publications many of which have been in journals indexed in the JRC Science Edition. He has also participated as principal investigator or researcher in numerous research projects both financed with public funding both European national regional or university; as well as with private financing through contracts made through article 83 of the University Law. He has also directed nine doctoral theses all of them having received the highest qualification; and has participated in numerous doctoral courts in Spain Germany and Mexico. He is also an External Evaluator of projects in Computer Science of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada since 2014 and Evaluator of the National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective of the General Directorate of Scientific and TechnicalResearch of Spain of the Ministry of Economy Industry and competitiveness of Spain. Dr. Yuri Demchenko (M): Yuri Demchenko is a Senior Researcher at the System and Network Engineering of the University of Amsterdam. He is graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnic Institute where he also received his PhD (Cand. of Science) degree. His main research areas include Big Data and Data Intensive Science Technologies and Infrastructure Cloud and Intercloud Architecture general security architectures and distributed access control infrastructure for cloud based services and data centric applications. He is currently involved in the European projects GN3plus EUBrazil CloudConnect and Cyclone where he conducts research and developments on the cloud federation infrastructure and cloud based Big Data infrastructure.  He is actively contributing to the standardisation activity at RDA OGF IETF NIST on defining Big Data ArchitectureFramework and Intercloud architecture for complex infrastructure services provisioning in clouds. Recently he has developed and contributed to development of a number of educational courses on Big Data and Cloud Computing for on campus education at UvA online education for Laureate Online Education (University of Liverpool) and for IEEE eLearning Library. He also published a number of paper on innovative learning methods he implemented in different courses he taught ranging from Cloud Computing to Big Data Infrastructure and Data Science.