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My main research field is Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. My principal line of work is the study of Open Online Communities (OOC), driven by open collaboration (like Wikipedia, StackExchange or open source software projects). I usually apply a multidisciplinary perspective and follow quantitative or mixed-methods approaches.

I have more than 8 years of experience in data analytics and engineering, and I have participated in more than 20 different projects in areas such as software engineering, quality assessment, content classification, opinion mining, participatory democracy or energy efficiency. My work has been funded by Spanish and European research programs (EU-FP6, EU-FP7, Avanza, INNPACTO), public institutions (CENATIC) and private companies.

Research statement

Understanding complex socio-technical systems

My long-term research goal is to leverage innovative solutions from big data analytics to improve our understanding of complex sociotechnical systems in which users, developers, businesses and other stakeholders collaborate and compete to create valuable knowledge and products.

To this aim, I work on the design and integration of methodologies, processes and computational systems (hardware and software) for big data analysis in different application domains: peer production Internet communities (Wikipedia, Stack Exchange), software engineering (FLOSS), online learning, energy efficiency, content classification and opinion mining. I follow a multidisciplinary approach, integrating elements from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, statistics, sociology or economy.

Publications

You can check the list of my research publications. You can find more details in my author’s profile on Google Scholar and DBLP.

Presentations

I am frequent speaker on different topics such as open collaboration and peer production, data analytics and engineering, open source software or business models. You can check a summary of my previous presentations, sometimes including slides or videos.

Mass media

Some of my research works have been featured in national and international mass media. This (incomplete) list of appearances in mass media collects some of them.

Service

Organization of events

Organizer, ESF Exploratory workshop: Towards a Virtual Institute for the Measurement, Evaluation and Management of Open Online Communities. Telecom Bretagne. Brest, France. February 6-7, 2013.
General Chair, 7th ACM International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (ACM WikiSym 2011). Mountain View, CA, USA. October 3-5, 2011.
Program Chair, 6th ACM International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (ACM WikiSym 2010). Gdansk, Poland. July 7-9 2010.
Chair, HICSS Mini-track. Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Content, Open Access and Open Communities.

HICSS-2009 (with Kevin Crowston).
HICSS-2010 (with Kevin Crowston and Vandana Singh).
HICSS-2011 (with Woflgang Bein, Kevin Crowston and Clinton Jeffery).

Organizer, First International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Research on Wikipedia and Wiki Communities (WIRW ’08). ACM WikiSym 2008. Porto, Portugal. September, 2008.