Francisco Martínez Álvarez

Pablo de Olavide University of Seville

Prof. Martínez is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at Pablo de Olavide University of Seville. He currently is Head of the Division of Computer Science and Director for the Data Science and Big Data Research Lab at the same university.
Prof. Martínez completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science also at Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, after conducting his undergraduate studies at University of Seville (Telecom Engineering) and Catholic University of Avila (Information Systems Engineering), respectively.
He has large international experience, since he has enjoyed different grants to conduct research with different international teams in Lyon (France), Santiago (Chile) or New York (USA).
He has been Principal Investigator for several national and international research projects. He is also involved in knowledge transfer thanks to the many contracts he has led with industrial partners.
His research includes time series forecasting, data mining, machine learning and big data analytics, all of them applied to several fields such as energy planning, seismology and geoinformatics.
Finally, Prof. Martínez has published more than 35 journal papers and has presented more than 50 papers at international conferences. He is a reviewer for several top international journals and has held various roles in scientific committees of various organizations and meetings.