Service and outreach
Congresses and conferences
[2024]
- ECMTB2024 (13th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology), Toledo (Spain), July 2024.
- CBMS2024 (2024 IEEE 37th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems), Guadalajara (Mexico), June 2024.
[2023]
- RexPO23 (2nd International Conference on Systems Medicine, Artificial Intelligence and Drug Repurposing), Stockholm (Sweden), October 2023.
- CBMS2023 (2023 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems), L’Aquila (Italy), June 2023.
[2022]
- EKAW2022 (23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management), Bolzano (Italy), September 2022.
- CBMS2022 (2022 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems), Online, June 2022.
- CamAIDD (1st Cambridge AI in Drug Discovery Conference), Online, February 2022.
[2021]
- CDW21 (Connected Data World 2021), Online, December 2021.
- CAEPIA20/21(XIX Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence), Málaga (Spain), September 2021.
- CBMS2021 (2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems), Online, June 2021.
[2020]
- CBMS2020 (2020 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems), Online, July 2020.
[2019]
- Drug repurposing meeting, Biochemical Society Event, Birmingham (UK), November 2019.
- CBMS2019 (2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems), Córdoba (Spain), June 2019.
Talks and seminars
[2024]
- Invited talk, “Rediscovering treatments: Artificial Intelligence for Drug Repurposing”, I Jornada de la Sociedad Española de IA en Biomedicina, Madrd (Spain), November 2024.
- Invited talk, “Bridging networks for drug repurposing: Insights from network medicine”, Mini-symposium on Complexity science for biological and medical problems, ECMTB2024, Toledo (Spain), July 2024.
- Outreach talk, “Innovating in feminine: Women in Montegancedo”, International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024, February 2024.
[2023]
- Outreach talk, “¿How can we study and combat diseases with computers?”, Week of the Science and Innovation in Madrid 2023, November 2023.
- Conference talk, “Enhancing drug repurposing through graph neural networks and link prediction”, RexPO23 Conference, Stockholm (Sweden), October 2023.
- Scientific talk, “On giving dugs a new life with the help of data”, Made in UPM Seminars at Real Colegio Complutense in Harvard, Boston (USA), May 2023.
[2022]
- Outreach talk, “¿How can we study and combat diseases with computers?”, Week of the Science and Innovation in Madrid 2022, November 2022.
- Seminar talk , “Disease understanding: Dealing with complex and unstructured big data in biomedical domain”, MSc in ICT Innovation: Data Science (EIT Digital – UPM), February 2022.
[2021]
- Outreach talk, “¿How can we study and combat diseases with computers?”, Week of the Science and Innovation in Madrid 2021, November 2021.
- Conference workshop talk, “DISNET: extracting public phenotypical knowledge of diseases”, CAEPIA2021, II Workshop of Spanish Research Groups of AI in Biomedicine, September 2021.
- Doctoral symposium, “My Thesis in a Nutshell: Disease networks towards drug repurposing”, UPM, June 2021. Finalist award.
- Seminar talk, “From data to treatments: Can we use public data to have a better understanding of diseases and reuse treatments?”, MSc in Computational Biology (UPM), Online, May 2021.
- Workshop talk, “Healthcare security ontologies for semantic representation of data / CUREX Asset Discovery”, MSc in Data and Web Science (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Online, March 2021.
- Seminar talk, “Disease understanding: Dealing with complex and unstructured big data in biomedical domain”, MSc in Data Science (UPM), Online, February 2021.
[2020]
- Outreach talk, “¿How can we study and combat diseases with computers?”, Week of the Science and Innovation in Madrid 2020, Online, November 2020.
- Conference talk, “Analysis of new nosological models from disease similarities using clustering”, CBMS2020, Online, July 2020.
[2019]
- Conference oral communication, “DISNET: Drug repurposing and disease understanding through complex networks creation”, Drug repurposing meeting, Biochemical Society Event, Birmingham, November 2019.
- Seminar talk, “Disease understanding: Dealing with complex and unstructured big data in biomedical domain”, MSc in Data Science (UPM), February 2019.
Peer reviewing and service
Peer reviewing for scientific journals
[2024]
- PLOS ONE
- PeerJ
- CIBM (Computers in Biology and Medicine)
- BMC Methods
- Cell iScience
[2023]
- ESWA (Expert Systems with Applications)
- IJMEDI (International Journal of Medical Informatics)
- BMC Medical Genomics
[2022]
- Frontiers in Digital Health
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- KHVI (Human Vaccines and Immunotherapies)
- JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)
[2021]
- Frontiers in Medical Technology
- JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)
- KHVI (Human Vaccines and Immunotherapies)
[2020]
- JBI (Journal of Biomedical Informatics)
[2019]
- IPM (Journal of Information Processing and Management)
Conference member committee / reviewer
[2024]
- ML4H2024 (Machine Learning for Health Symposium)
- CAEPIA2024 (XX Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence)
- CHIL2024 (Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning)
[2023]
- CBMS2023 (2023 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems)
- CHIL2023 (Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning)
[2022]
- EURECA-PRO (Conference – 2022)
- CBMS2022 (2022 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems)
[2021]
- CBMS2021 (2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems)
- SDMA2021 (IEEE CBMS Special Track on Social Data and Medical Data Analytics 2021): Organizer
[2020]
- CBMS2020 (2020 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems)
- KDD20 (26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining)
- SDM20 (2020 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining)
[2019]
- CBMS19 (2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems)
- HEALTHINF/BIOSTEC 2019 (12th International Conference on Health Informatics)
Programme Committee Chair
- CBMS2025 (2025 IEEE 38th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems)
- CBMS2024 (2024 IEEE 37th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems)
Journal Editor
- Editorial Board of Springer Progress in Artificial Intelligence journal (2024 – Present).
- Guest Editor of “Innovations in Artificial Intelligence for Medicine and Healthcare” in Springer Health Information Science and Systems (2024 – 2025).
- Guest Editor of Collection “Computational techniques for drug repositioning” in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2023 – 2024).
Other activities
Investiture of new doctorates (Jan 2024)