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. He also covers the Machine Learning module in the Master's Degree in AI for the Energy and Infrastructure Sector at Rioja International University (UNIR). 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 (the center moved to 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 and optimisation to Software Engineering problems in particular.


Biografía (in Spanish)

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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)
  • Metropolia University, Helsinki, Finland, 2023 (Erasmus+, teaching 1 week)
  • Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024, 2025 (Erasmus+, teaching 1 week)
  • University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2025 (Erasmus+, 1 week)