Dr. Aitor Almeida Escondrillas Personal Web E-mail http://morelab.deusto.es/people/members/aitor-almeida/ aitor.almeida@deusto.es Education 2006-2013 PhD in Computer Science. University of Deusto, Spain. 2004-2005 M. Sc.in Computer Science. University of Deusto, Spain. 1998-2004 Bachelor Degree (five years) in Computer Engineering. University of Deusto, Spain. Experience Sep. 2006 - Present Sep. 2004 - Agu. 2006 Oct. 2003 - Jul. 2004 Oct. 2001 - Jul. 2002 DeustoTech. Researcher and Project Manager. DeustoTech. Research Assistant. Abartia. Developer. Euskal Irrati Telebista. Developer. Project Manager in research projects (at Deustotech) International projects: City4Age(H2020), SONOPA (AAL) National projects: THOFU (CENIT), PIRAmIDE (Avanza I+D) Regional projects: AztarNet (Gaitek), DYNUI (Proyectos de investigación básica) Participation in research projects International projects: National projects: Regional projects: CBDP(Celtic) FraseWare(Plan Nacional de I+D+i), TALIS+ENGINE (Plan Nacional de I+D+i), mio! (CENIT), TALISMAN (MICINN), ASAMI (Plan Avanza I+D) SUDMERK(Saiotek), OBESITIC (GAITEK), DEUSTEK3, Future Internet II (ETORTEK), ISMED (Programa Investigación Básica y Aplicada), DEUSTEK2, ROAD60 (ETORGAI), ZAINGUNE (INTEK), AMITS(SAIOTEK), Flexeo (Ekinberri), SmartLab (SAIOTEK), CollOn- Bus (INTEK NETS), EMI2 (SAIOTELK)
Participation in thematic networks National networks: SNOLA (Spanish Network of Learning Analytics. Co-founder -with Pablo Orduña and Salvador Ros (vicedean of the Faculty of Engineering, UNED)-. 10 universities). Spanish network of Linked Data (one of the 19 founding groups). Teaching experience 2014-2016 Introduction to Web technologies for Law students, University of Deusto, Spain. 2014-2016 Social Network Analysis, Computer Science PhD program. University of Deusto, Spain. 2014-2015 Web Scraping for Data Journalism, Expert program for Data Analysis, Research and Communication. University of Deusto, Spain. 2004-2005 Mobile Internet, University of Deusto, Spain. Thesis Advisor Eduardo Castillejo: Juan Sixto: Aritz Bilbao: Defended on March, 2015. Co-advisor Diego López de Ipiña. Dynamic User Interface Adaptation Engine Through Semantic Modelling and Reasoning for Mobile Devices. Co-advisor Rodrigo Agerri. Sentiment Analysis on Social Networks using meta-data. Analysis of the political discourse on Social Networks using Deep Learning. JCR indexed journals. Gorka Azkune, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Liming Luke Chen. (2015) Últimas tendencias en el modelado de actividades humanas In DYNA. vol. 90. ISSN: 0012-7361. Impact Factor(2015): 0.179. 2015. Gorka Azkune, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Liming Luke Chen. (2015) Extending knowledge-driven activity models through data-driven learning techniques In Expert Systems with Applications. vol. 42. p. 3115-3128. DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.11.063. Impact Factor(2015): 1.965. 2015. Gorka Azkune, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Liming Luke Chen. (2015) Combining Users Activity Survey and Simulators to Evaluate Human Activity Recognition Systems In Sensors. vol. 15. p. 8192-8213. DOI: 10.3390/s150408192. Impact Factor(2015): 2.048. 2015. Pablo Orduña, Aitor Almeida, Salvador Ros, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Javier García-Zubia. (2014) Leveraging Non-explicit Social Communities for Learning Analytics in Mobile Remote Laboratories In Journal of Universal Computer Science. vol. 20. p. 2043 2053. Impact Factor(2014): 0.401. 2014. Eduardo Castillejo, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña. Ontology Based Model for Supporting Dynamic and Adaptive User Interfaces. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2014.927287. Volume 30, Issue 10, pages 771-786. JCR Impact Factor (2013): 0.723. July 2014.. Eduardo Castillejo, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Liming Luke Chen. Modeling Users, Context and Devices for Ambient Assisted Living Environments. Sensors. DOI: 10.3390/s140305354. Volume 14, Issue 3, pages 5354-5391. JCR Impact Factor (2013): 1.739. March 2014.. Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Marcos Sacristan. A method for automatic generation of fuzzy membership functions for mobile device s characteristics based on Google Trends. Computers in Human Behaviour (Journal). Impact Factor (2011): 2.293 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.06.005. Volume 29, Issue 2. Pages 510 517. March 2013.
. Aitor Almeida and Diego López-de-Ipiña. A Distributed Reasoning Engine Ecosystem for Semantic Context-Management in Smart Environments. Sensors, MDPI. vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 10208-10227, DOI: 10.3390/s120810208, ISSN 1424-8220, JCR Impact Factor (2011): 1.739, July 2012... Aitor Almeida and Diego López-de-Ipiña. Assessing Ambiguity of Context Data in Intelligent Environments: Towards a More Reliable Context Managing System. Sensors. Volume 12, Issue 4, pp 4934-4951. MDPI. Impact Factor (2011): 1.739. DOI: 10.3390/s120404934. April 2012.. Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego Lopez-de-Ipiña, Marcos Sacristan. Imhotep: an approach to user and device conscious mobile applications. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Journal), Volume 15, Number 4, pages 419-429. Springer. Impact Factor (2009): 1.554. ISSN: 1617-4909. DOI: 10.1007/s00779-010-0359-8. April 2011.. Diego López de Ipiña, Juan Ignacio Vázquez, Daniel García, Javier Fernández, Iván García, David Sainz and Aitor Almeida. EMI2lets: A Reflective Framework for Enabling AmI. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2006, vol. 12 n.3 pp. 297-314. Impact Factor (2006): 0.338. 2006 Conferences.. Oscar Peña, Unai Aguilera, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña. (2015) Labman: A Research Information System to Foster Insight Discovery Through Visualizations In Metadata and Semantics Research. p. 286-297. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24129-6-25. 2015.. Juan Sixto, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña. (2015) DeustoTech Internet at TASS 2015: Sentiment analysis and polarity classification in spanish tweets In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) 2015. p. 23. 2015.. Oscar Peña, Jon Lázaro, Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Unai Aguilera, Diego López-de-Ipiña. (2014) Visual Analysis of a Research Group s Performance thanks to Linked Open Data In Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery. p. 59-68. 2014. Gorka Azkune, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Liming Luke Chen. (2014) A Knowledge- Driven Tool for Automatic Activity Dataset Annotation In Intelligent Systems 2014. p. 593-604. 2014.. Gorka Azkune, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Liming Luke Chen. (2014) A Hybrid Evaluation Methodology for Human Activity Recognition Systems In Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services. p. 92-99. 2014.. Asier Aztiria, Eduardo Castillejo, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña. Adapting user interfaces based on user preferences and habits.adapting user interfaces based on user preferences and habits. Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent Environments (IE14). China. July 2014.. Jonathan Ruiz de Garibay, Aitor Almeida, Szilard A. Kados, Adolfo Garcia-Corcuera, Diego Lópezde-Ipiña. Codesign-Oriented Platform for Agile Internet of Things Prototype Development. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Extending Seamlessly to the Internet of Things. UK. July 2014.. Pablo Orduña, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Javier García-Zubia. Learning Analytics on federated remote laboratories: tips and techniques. 5th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). Istambul, Turkey. March 2014.. Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, and Marcos Sacristán. An approach to automatic generation of fuzzy membership functions using popularity metrics. In Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research, pp. 528-533. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.. Eduardo Castillejo, Aitor Almeida, and Diego López-de-Ipina. User, Context and Device Modeling for Adaptive User Interface Systems. In Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Context- Awareness and Context-Driven Interaction, pp. 94-101. Springer International Publishing, December 2013.
. Juan Sixto, Aitor Almeida and Diego López-de-Ipiña. Analysing Customers Sentiments: An Approach to Opinion Mining and Classification of Online Hotel Reviews. Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7934, pp 359-362. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2013.. Eduardo Castillejo, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña. Social Network Analysis Applied to Recommendation Systems: Alleviating the Cold-User Problem of the book Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence - 6th International Conference (UCAmI 2012), LNCS 7656.. Editors: José Bravo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Francisco Moya. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-35376-5, pp. 306-313, December 2012.. Aitor Almeida, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Marcos Sacristán, Javier Diego. Resource Recommendation for Intelligent Environments Based on a Multi-Aspect Metric. Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2012, pp 298-305. ISBN: 978-3-642-35376-5. Vitoria-Gazteiz, Spain. December, 2012.. Aitor Almeida, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Marcos Sacristán, Javier Diego. An Aspect-Based Resource Recommendation System for Smart Hotels. The Sixth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (Ubicomm 2012). Barcelona, Spain. September 2012. ISBN: 978-1-61208-236-3. Eduardo Castillejo, Aitor Almeida and Diego López-de-Ipiña. Alleviating cold-user start problem with users social network data in recommendation systems. Preference Learning: Problems and Applications in AI (PL-12) at ECAI 2012, p.p. 22-27 Montpellier, France, August 2012.. Aitor Almeida and Diego López de Ipiña. An Inference Sharing Architecture For a More Efficient Context Reasoning. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence (SENAMI 2012). Lugano, Switzerland, 19-23, March, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4673-0906-6. Aitor Almeida and Diego López de Ipiña. An Approach to More Reliable Context-Aware Systems By Assesing Ambiguity: Taking Into Account Indetermination and Vagueness in Smart Environments. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS 2012). Rome, Italy, 24-26, February, 2012. ISBN: 978-989-8565-00-6. Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña. Modelling and Managing Ambiguous Context in Intelligent Environments. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAMI 2011). Riviera Maya, Mexico, December 2011. ISBN:978-84-694-9677-0.. Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Marcos Sacristán. An approach to automatic generation of fuzzy membership functions using popularity metrics. 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society. Mykonos, Greece, September, 2011. Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 278, December 14, 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-35878-4. Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Marcos Sacristán. Adaptative applications for heterogeneous intelligent environments. ICOST 2011: 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics. Montréal, Canada, June 2011. LNCS6719, Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-21534-6, pp. 1-8. Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego López de Ipiña, Marcos Sacristán. A usercentric approach to adaptable mobile interfaces Actas del II International Workshop of Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL 2010), p.p. 153-160 Valencia, Spain, September 7-10, 2010 (ISBN: 978-84- 92812-67-7). Unai Aguilera, Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Diego López de Ipiña, Rafael de las Heras, Continuous service execution in mobile prosumer environments Actas del IV International Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2010, p.p. 229-238, Valencia, Spain, September 7-10, 2010 (ISBN: 978-84-92812-61-5).. Pablo Orduña, Aitor Almeida, Unai Aguilera, Xabier Laiseca, Diego López de Ipiña,, Aitor Gómez Goiri. Identifying Security Issues in the Semantic Web: Injection attacks in the Semantic Query Languages Actas de las VI Jornadas Científico-Técnicas en Servicios Web y SOA (JSWEB 2010). p. p. 43-50. ISBN: 978-84-92812-59-2. Valencia, Spain. September 2010.
. Aitor Almeida, Diego López de Ipiña, Unai Aguilera, Iker Larizgoitia, Xabier Laiseca, Pablo Orduña and Ander Barbier. An Approach to Dynamic Knowledge Extension and Semantic Reasoning in Highly-Mutable Environments Proceedings of 3rd Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence 2008, Advances in Soft Computing, vol. 51, Springer, ISSN: 1615-3871, ISBN: 978-3-540-85866-9,, University of Salamanca, SPAIN, 22-24 October, 2008. Diego López de Ipiña, Xabier Laiseca, Ander Barbier, Unai Aguilera, Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña and Juan Ignacio Vazquez. Infrastructural Support for Ambient Assisted Living. Proceedings of 3rd Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence 2008, Advances in Soft Computing, vol. 51, Springer, ISSN: 1615-3871, ISBN: 978-3-540-85866-9, University of Salamanca, SPAIN, 22-24 October, 2008. Juan Ignacio Vazquez, Aitor Almeida, Iker Doamo, Xabier Laiseca and Pablo Orduña. Flexeo: an architecture for integrating Wireless Sensor Networks into the Internet of Things Proceedings of UCAmI 2008-3rd Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, Salamanca, Spain, October 2008.. D. López de Ipiña, A. Almeida, U. Aguilera, I. Larizgoitia, X. Laiseca, P. Orduña, A. Barbier, J.I. Vazquez. Dynamic Discovery and Semantic Reasoning for Next Generation Intelligent Environments The 4th IET international conference on Intelligent Environments IE08. 2008. University of Washington, Seattle, USA. ISBN: 978-0-86341-894-5. Aitor Almeida, Diego López de Ipiña, Unai Aguilera, Iker Larizgoitia, Xabier Laiseca, Pablo Orduña, Ander Barbier. Dynamic Ontology Enrichment and Reasoning in AmI Environments Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI2008), Patras, Greece. 21st-22nd of July 2008. Co-located event of ECAI 2008. ISBN: 978-960-6843-07-5.. Aitor Almeida, Borja Sotomayor, Joseba Abaitua, Diego López de Ipiña. Towards a Solution to Extract Knowledge from the Social Web. In Proceedings from the workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Reengineering over the Web, pp. 11-20. Fifth European Semantic Web Conference. Tenerife 1-5 June 2008.. D. López-de-Ipiña, J. I. Vazquez, D. García, J. Fernández, I. García, D. Sainz, A. Almeida, A platform to build smart spaces controllable from mobile devices. IE06, 2nd Internation Conference on Intelligent Environments, Athens, 5-6 July 2006.. Diego López de Ipiña, Juan Ignacio Vázquez, Daniel García, Javier Fernández, Iván García, David Sainz and Aitor Almeida. A Middleware for the Deployment of Ambient Intelligent Spaces. Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life, Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 3864, ISSN 0302-9743, pp. 239-255, 2006. David Sainz, Aitor Almeida, Jon Valdés and Diego Lopez de Ipiña. Towards a communication agnostic middleware for Ambient Intelligence. Proceedings of the I International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing: Applications, Technology and Social Issues. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, June 7-9, 2006.. Aitor Almeida Escondrillas, David Sainz Gonzalez. Enabling Service Orchestration, Transactionality and Security in UPnP. IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing. San Sebastian, Spain. February, 2006. Reviewer on Journals and conferences
. Expert Systems with Applications Journal.. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Theme Issue on Sensor-Driven Computing and Applications for Ambient Intelligence.. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Theme Issue on Internet of Things, Linked Data, and Citizen Participation as Enablers of Smarter Cities.. Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal.. Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal.. Sensors Journal.. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments.. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.. Journal of Computer Science and Technology.. DYNA Journal.. IEEE RITA: Latin-American Learning Technologies Journal.. International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAMI).. International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL).. International Workshop on Smart Environments and Ambient Intelligence (SENAMI). Other publications. ibatis o cómo hacer uso del 80% de la funcionalidad de JDBC con el 20% del código. Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n165, pp 22-27, 2008.. Desarrollo de aplicaciones con J2ME Polish (y III). David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n162, pp 26-30, 2008.. Primeros pasos con Android (y III). Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n160, pp 12-17, 2008.. Construcción de aplicaciones con J2ME Polish (II). David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n160, pp 26-32, 2008.. Primeros pasos con J2ME Polish (I). Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n159, pp 26-30, 2008.. Primeros pasos con Android (II). David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n158, pp 18-23, 2008.. Primeros pasos con Android (I). Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n157, pp 12-17, 2008.. Primera aproximación a Silverlight David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n156, pp 36-42, 2007.. Web Service Enhancements: Extensiones de Servicios Web para. NET (y II) Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n154, pp 50-55, 2007.. Web Service Enhancements: Extensiones de Servicios Web para. NET (I) Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n153, pp 48-52, 2007.. Videovigilancia con.net Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n152, pp 30-33, 2007.. Integrando.net y office con VSTO (y II) David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n151, pp 38-43, 2007.. Integrando.net y office con VSTO (I) David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n150, pp 16-23, 2007.. Mobile Web Controls de ASP. NET. Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n145, pp 14-21, 2007.
. Bluetooth con J2ME (y II). David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n140, pp 14-18, 2006.. Bluetooth con J2ME (I). Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n139, pp 22-26, 2006.. Desarrollo de aplicaciones con.net Compact Framework (y III). David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n136, pp 16-22, 2006.. Desarrollo de aplicaciones con.net Compact Framework (II). Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n135, pp 18-23, 2006.. Desarrollo de aplicaciones con.net Compact Framework (I). David Sainz y Aitor Almeida. Sólo Programadores, n134, pp 14-18, 2006.. Aplicaciones domóticas con.net. Aitor Almeida y David Sainz. Sólo Programadores, n133, pp 42-46, 2006. Open Source contributions. Networkx: Implementation of community detection algorithms. URL: https://github.com/networkx/networkx. Proteus Graph Exporter: Library to manage different graph formats. URL: https://github.com/aitoralmeida/proteus-graph-exporter. Markovduino: Markov chains for Arduino. URL: https://github.com/aitoralmeida/markovduino/. Google ZXing: implementation of additional bi-dimensional codes. URL: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/. Imhotep: Framework for the creation of adaptive interfaces. URL: http://www.morelab.deusto.es/imhotep/. EMI2lets: Multi-agent architecture for Intelligent Environments. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/emi2lets/ Awards February 2015 March 2012 March 2005 Special Recognition Award for excellence in research teams, UD-Grupo Santander. Best app in the Urban Navigation category; Premios Vía Inteligente a los servicios orientadas a ciudadanos. Best end-term project, Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Spain.