Teaching, Examination and  Supervision experience

 

 
Course Leader for:
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  • Principles of Computer Communication Systems, University of St Andrews, since 2022

  • Databases, University of St Andrews, since 2022

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PhD Students, since 2015
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  • Co-supervisor of Alessandro Spinuso, Active Provenance for Data Intensive Research,  from 2015 to 2018

  • Co-supervisor of Luca Trani, Holistic Catalogues for Data-Intensive Science, from 2015 to 2019

  • Co-supervisor of Ole Weidner, Data-Driven HPC, from 2015 to 2021

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Examined seven external PhDs, since 2012

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  • Giannis Evagorou, Methods for Efficient Storage, Distribution and Scalable Analysis of Spatial Data, Imperial College London University, UK, 2021

  • Pablo Cerro, Modelling and validation of cloud systems using model driven engineering, metamorphic and mutation testing, University Complutense, Spain, 2020

  • Hector Ortega, Parallel Approaches to Shortest-Path Problems for Multilevel Heterogeneous Computing, University of Valladolid, Spain, 2015

  •  Idafen Santana Perez, Conservation of Computational Scientific Execution Environments for Workflow-based Experiments Using Ontologies , Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, 2015

  • Jordi Villaplana, Management of Cloud systems applied to eHealth, University of Lleida, Spain, 2015

  •  Miquel Orobitg, High performance computing on biological sequence alignment, University of Lleida, Spain, 2013

  • Laura Prada, New techniques to model energy-aware I/O architectures based on SSD and hard disk drives, University Carlos III, Spain, 2012

 
Tutorials and laboratories, from 2010 to 2020:
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My responsibilities also included to deliver training sessions in multi-day events attended by multidisciplinary audiences ranging from undergraduates and PhD students to senior academics.

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  • Three Spark courses teaching at different PRACE-events, 2019 

  • Introduction to Machine Learning, Scottish Enterprise, 2018

  • Introduction to Data Science at EPCC, 2019

  • Two Spark courses teaching at British Geological Survey, 2017

  • Three dispel4py seminars at various dissemination events, 2014 to 2016

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Supervision of MSc and BSc students at the University of St Andrews, since 2022
  • Exploring ML solutions for calculating Python Code Similarity, 2022/2023, BSc
  • A New Serverless Stream Based Processing Framework, 2022/2023, BSc
  • A Neo4J Knowledge Graph for Python Code Repositories, 2022/2023, BSc,
  • Dynamic Deployment of Stream-based Applications, 2022, MSc
  • Improving an AI-web Tool for Analysing NLS Digital Collections, 2022, MSc
  • A Knowledge Graph and AI-Web-Platform to Explore UK Events data, 2022, MSc
 
Supervision of MSc Informatics students at the University of Edinburgh, from 2013 to 2020
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  • Performance of parallel K-means algorithm using Python, 2020

  • From text to structured data, 2020

  • Dynamic optimizations of streaming applications, 2020

  • Automatic detection of Ionospheric Alfvén Resonances using machine learning algorithms, 2019

  • Parallel Strategies for K-means Algorithm, 2018

  • Comparison of performance between Apache Spark and dispel4py Data Streaming Tools, 2017

  • Dynamic and automated tool to transferr data and metadata from rock physic laboratories to a remote location, 2013

  • Enhancing a portable adaptive compression technique for MPI-based applications, 2013

  • Profiling analysis for a new Python framework (dispel4py) for describing abstract stream-based workflows, 2015

  • Design a run-time adaptive compression algorithm for stream-based workflows, 2015

  • Stream-based workflows with dispel4py library, 2015

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Supervision of Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC)-PIRE program students, since 2012 to 2015
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  • PRAS-DT: Portable, Reliable, and Automatic Streaming Data Transfer using Globus Online, 2012

  • Extending Rock Physics to the Cloud and Beyond, 2013

  • Varpy: A python library for volcanology and rock physics, 2013

  • Testing the scalability of dispel4py mappings to different parallel platforms, 2014

  • Analyse the 1000 Genome project data to study the mutation overlapping by population and chromosome, 2015

  • Analyse the output of the Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) to study the overlapping genes, 2015

 
Teaching Fellow at University Carlos III of Madrid, from 2005 to 2010
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I have taught undergraduate courses in Master’s and Bachelor’s Computer Science Programmes. My responsibilities included material preparation; delivering lectures and tutorials;laboratory demonstration; grading homework and exams; and assisting students with course materials.

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  • Subjects: Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Fault-tolerant Systems, Introduction to Programming, Computer Structure and Distributed Systems.

 

Supervision of MSc Informatics students at University Carlos III of Madrid, from 2005 to 2010
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  • Analysis, design and development for managing a user contact system, 2010

  • Design and implementation of a Java learning tool through Android, 2009

  • Study of the Moodle tool for online courses, 2009

  • Creating a virtual classroom for our research group using Moodle, 2008

  • Virtual course for the ”Fault-tolerant systems” course using Moodle, 2008

  • Virtual course for the ”Introduction to programming” course using Moodle, 2008

  • Virtual course for the ”Computer Structure” course using Moodle, 2006

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