Short Bio

Daniel Rodriguez is currently an associate professor (tenured) at the Computer Science Department of the University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain. He is also a regular visiting researcher at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Previously, Daniel was an on-line tutor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) for the Compilers module. Also, he was a lecturer at the University of Reading, UK (2001-2006), as well as a seasonal lecturer until 2010 at the MSc in Network Centred Computing covering the Data Mining and Information Retrieval module. He was a visiting researcher at CREST while at King's College London (now at UCL).

Daniel earned his degree in Computer Science at the University of the Basque Country (EHU) and PhD degree at the University of Reading, UK in 2003. He also obtained his Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice of the University of Reading, UK (2005). His research interest include data mining and software engineering in general and the application of data mining (machine learning) techniques to Software Engineering problems in particular.


Biografía (in Spanish)

Journals - Editorial Board

Conference Programme Committee Member

Conference/Workshop Organiser

Projects

  • e-Skills: ECOKT2014-7 (30-CE-0726730/00-60)
  • ICEBERG: How to estimate cost of poor quality in a Software QA project: a novel approach to support management decisions (ICEBERG), EU-FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP-324356, 48 months, EU project
  • SOPRENE: Utilización de redes neuronales como método para mantenimiento basado en la condición en los buques de la armada. Indra Sistemas, S.A. (for Armada Española). Participation of Indra, UAH and UdC.
  • BadgePeople: Leveling-up Innovation in Quality Improvement of People-Driven Processes with Simulation and Gamification (Spanish Research Agency funded project, TIN2016-76956-C3-3-R)
  • Gamificación y prototipado de procesos para la detección temprana de oportunidades en la producción del software, TIN2013-46928-C3-2-R
  • Red de excelencia en Ingeniería de Software basada en Búsqueda (SEBASENet), TIN2015-71841-REDT
  • MT4SOA: Management Technique for Service Oriented Architectures. Sponsored by The University of Alcala and Community of Madrid, CCG07-UAH-TIC-1588 (Jan 2008 -- Dec 2008). Principal investigator.
  • Organic.Edunet: Management Technique for Service Oriented Architectures (ECP 2006-EDU-410012).
  • ARGO: Improvement of processes for decision-making in software engineering project management (CICYT - Spanish Research Agency funded project, TIC2001-1143-C03, 1999--2005)

Supervised Theses

  • E. Ocampo Eyde, Estudio de aplicabilidad de técnicas de aprendizaje y razonamiento automáticas para el apoyo al diagnóstico clínico y tratamiento de enfermedades, University of Alcala, 2010 (co-supervised with MA Sicilia) [pdf]
  • M.C. Valiente Vázquez, Improving IT Service Management using an Ontology-Based and Model-Driven Approach, University of Alcala, 2011 (co-supervised with C. Vicente-Chicote) [pdf]
  • F. Ruiz Bertol, Ténicas Conceptuales en la Gestión de Proyectos Software, EHU/UPV 2011 (co-supervised with J. Dolado)[pdf]
  • H. Yago Corral, Una propuesta de sistema de recomendación basado en competencias y modelado del estudiante ontológico, Universidad de Alcala, 2019 (cosupervised with J. Clemente) [pdf]
  • J.R. Palma Mendoza, Distributed Feature Selection Algorithms for Big Data, Universidad de Alcala, 2019 (cosupervised with L. de Marcos)[pdf]
  • Javier Moreno Martín, On the Application of Multiobjective Optimization to Software Development Process and Antenna Designing, University of Alcala, 2020 (cosupervised with J.J. Martínez)[pdf]

Research visits

  • Reading University, UK (summers 2008-11)
  • Oxford Brookes University, UK (summers 2013-18 as Visiting Fellow and Erasmus+)
  • Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 2019 (Erasmus+, teaching 1 week)