José A. Ruipérez-Valiente completed his B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Telecommunications graduating in both cases with the best academic transcript of the class. Afterwards, he completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Telematics at UC3M while conducting research at Institute IMDEA Networks in the area of learning analytics and educational data mining. During this time, he completed two research stays of three months each, the first one at MIT and the second one at the University of Edinburgh. Then, José completed his Postdoc at the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and MIT Playful Journey Lab and was an Associate Professor at Complutense University of Madrid. He also held industry appointments at Multimedia Vocento, Accenture and ExoClick, combining experience in academia, research institutions and business companies. He is currently an Associate Professor within the Information and Communications Engineering Department of the University of Murcia. His research interests revolve around computational social science, educational technology, ciberdefence and data science in general.

His research has been successful, as I have received more than 20 academic/research awards and fellowships (such as the BBVA Award as Outstanding Young CS Researcher or a Humboldt Research Fellowship). Moreover, I have co-authored over 100 scientific publications in high impact venues (like for example Science, Computers & Education, Expert Systems with Applications, or Future Generation Computer Systems). I have currently received more than 2100 citations and have a h-index of 23. This work has been part of the results obtained participating then 20 funded projects and contracts, the majority of them competitive.