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Jordi Casas-Roma holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, 2014), a Master’s degree in Advanced Artificial Intelligence from UNED (2011), and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UAB (2002). He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UAB, where he teaches courses in programming, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and complex networks. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Computer Vision Center (CVC-UAB).

His main research interests lie in artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, graph mining, and data privacy. Previously, he developed his teaching and research career over a 13-year period at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He holds the Lector accreditation (AQU, 2016), the Research accreditation (AQU, 2020), two recognized six-year research periods (sexenios, 2011–2016 and 2017–2022), and three five-year teaching merits (quinquenios, UOC: 2009–2013 and 2014–2018; UAB: 2019–2023).

He has published 18 papers in indexed journals (8 as first author, 2 as sole author, and 5 as last author), with an h-index of 16 on Google Scholar (830 citations) and 11 on Scopus (417 citations). He has presented 9 conference papers, contributed 1 book chapter, and participated in 10 competitive research projects with total funding exceeding €1.2 million. He is also the author of 6 educational and outreach books and has supervised 2 PhD theses, as well as numerous Bachelor’s and Master’s theses at both UOC and UAB.

Accreditations

• 2nd-period Research Merits (“Sexennis – 2n Tram“) for the period 2017-2022 by the Catalan Government (Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency – AQU Catalunya). December 2023.
• Associate Professor (“Professor Agregat“) issued by the Catalan Government (Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency – AQU Catalunya). April 2021.
• 2nd period of teaching merits (“Quinquennis – 2n Tram“) for the period 20014-2018 by the UOC. University teaching evaluation: DOCENTIA program. January 2020.
• 1st-period Research Merits (“Sexennis – 1r Tram“) for the period 2011-2016 by the Catalan Government (Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency – AQU Catalunya). December 2017.
• Tenure-track Lecturer (“Professor Lector“) issued by the Catalan Government (Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency – AQU Catalunya). March 2017.
• 1st period of teaching merits (“Quinquennis – 1r Tram“) for the period 2009-2013 by the UOC. University teaching evaluation: DOCENTIA program. February 2015.

Program committee membership

• The 15th DPM International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM ’20)
• The 14th DPM International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM ’19)
• The 11th DPM International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM ’16)
• Social Media and Risk workshop (SoMeRis ’16) held in conjunction with ICDM ’16
• The 19th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS ’16)
• The 10th DPM International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM ’15)
• Social Media and Risk workshop (SoMeRis ’15) held in conjunction with ASONAM ’15

Local organizing committee

• The 10th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI ’13)
• The 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM ’18)