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Academic Achievements
Coauthor of more than 70 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences such as ACM CoNEXT, WWW, Usenix Security, ACM IMC, ACM HotNets, IEEE Infocom, ACM CHI, IEEE/ACM TON, IEEE TPDS, CACM, PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, PlosONE, or Communications of the ACM. PI of 16 research projects funded by the EU H2020 and FP7 programs, the National Government of Spain, and private companies, and overall participated in 27 research projects. Recipient of several prestigious prizes including the Telefonica Foundation Prize for the best Spanish PhD Thesis in Communication Networks and Services and the 2018 Emilio Aced Research Prize for the best research work in data protection.
Research Experience
From January to December 2012, he was a Courtesy Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Oregon. Since 2006, he has been teaching in different degrees and masters at UC3M in the fields of Telecommunications Engineering, Telematics Engineering, and Computer Science. He was also the Main Instructor of a Master/PhD course at the CIS department at the University of Oregon in Fall 2012.
Education
PhD in Telematics Engineering from University Carlos III of Madrid in 2010; MSc in Telematics Engineering from University Carlos III of Madrid in 2007; MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from University Carlos III of Madrid in 2005; MSc in Network Planning and Management from Aalborg University (Denmark) in 2006.
Background
Associate Professor in the Telematics Engineering Department at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Deputy Director of the UC3M-Santander Big Data Institute (IBiDat). His main research interests include Online Advertising, Web Transparency, Personalization and Privacy, Internet Measurements and its application to solve longstanding problems in other disciplines such as economy or sociology.
Miscellany
His research on file-sharing piracy, online social networks, online advertising fraud, and web transparency has been featured in major international and national media such as The Financial Times, BBC, The Guardian, The Times, New Scientist, Wired, Corriere della Sera, O'Globo, Le Figaro, El Universal, El Pais, El Mundo, ABC, Cadena Ser, Cadena Cope, TVE, Antena3, La Sexta, etc.