Mario Andrés Paredes Valverde received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Murcia with cum laude distinction and International mention in 2017. He holds a B.E. and MSc degrees in Computer Systems Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Orizaba, México. His main research interests include the Semantic Web, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and Human Language technologies such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, opinion mining, and computational linguistics. He has extensive experience in the use and development of ontologies for domain conceptualization, NLP techniques to retrieve information from relational databases and distributed semantic knowledge bases, machine learning, and the development of Intelligent Systems based on the IoT. Mario Andrés has published over 20 articles in journals indexed in JCR, conferences, and book chapters. He is a member of the scientific committee of national and international conferences (CITI, INBAST, ISC, CIMPS, and CITAMA). Also, he has held stays in research centers in Spain and Norway, and he has collaborated with researchers’ groups from Mexico, Spain, Ecuador, and Norway. Additionally, he has collaborated in the development of national and international research proposals financed by public and private entities such as the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) Government of Spain, Institute of Promotion of the Region of Murcia (INFO) and European Regional Development Fund (FEDER)
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