Academic Conferences
I have organized:
- Industry Track Co-Chair User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2010, Industry Track, July 11-15, 2001, in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
- General co-Chair 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2010, September 26-30, 2010 in Barcelona.
- Workshop on Recommender-based Industrial Applications held in conjunction with RecSys 2009 on Sunday, October 25, 2009 in New York City, USA.
I am (or have been) on the Program Committee of:
- PC of Behavioural Analysis and Personalization track of the World Wide Web 2012 (www2012) conference on April 16-20, 2012, Lyon, France.
- Senior PC of 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on October, 2011, Chicago, US.
- Senior PC of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011) on July 16-22, 2011, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems within 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on October, 2011, Chicago, US.
- Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Exploitation from semi-Structured Online Sources (KEESOS 2011) within The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) to be held with on November 7-11, 2001, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
- Workshop NLP in the Enterprise: Envisioning the Next 10 Years to be held in conjunction with SEPLN 2010 on September 6-7, 2010, Valencia, Spain.
- Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms and Technologies, September 30, 2010, Barcelona, Catalonia.
- 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2010, September 26-30, 2010, Barcelona, Catalonia.
- EC 2010, June 7-11, 2009, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.
- Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Semantic Web (APRESW 2010), within the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), May 30 – June 3, 2010, Heraklion, Greece.
- EC 2009, July 6-10, 2009, Stanford, California, USA.
- 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media (MSM09-CAEPIA09), November 10-12, 2009, Sevilla, Spain.
Invited Talks
- Speaker at the Industry day of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), July 22, 2011, Barcelona.
- Keynote at Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms and Technologies, September 30, 2010, Barcelona, Catalonia. See the slides in the corresponding post.
- Industry Panel at UMAP 2009, June 22-26, 2009, Trento, Italy.
- Seminari: “Sistemas y experiencias prácticas de transferencia de conocimiento desde la investigación científica”, organized by ICMAB (Institut de Ciències Materials de Barcelona) del CSIC. May 2009, Bellaterra, Catalonia.
- Seminari: “Els errors dels emprenedors” organized by Parc de Recerca de la UAB. April 2009, Bellaterra, Catalonia.
- Panel: “Search, Recommendations and Personalization: text and beyond” at Telefonica Open Research Day. November 27, 2008, Barcelona, Catalonia.
- Invited talk about “OpenTaste” at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. February 2008, Valencia.
Editorial Advisory Board
I am part of the Editorial Advisory Board of the book Collaborative and Distributed E-Research: Innovations in Technologies, Strategies and Applications.
PhD Thesis Committees
I have been on the PhD thesis committee of:
- Justin Donaldson, Indiana University, USA.
- Claudio Baccigalupo, IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Catalonia.
- Oscar Celma from The Audiovisual Institute, UPF, Barcelona, Catalonia.
Certifications
I earned the following academic certifications:
- Tenure-track Lecturer certification issued by the Agència per la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya (AQU).
Others
I am “Orientador” at Ciutadania 4.0 project.
