Ruben Lara, Ph.D.
  • Education

    • Ph.D. In Computer Science
      European Ph.D. with honours
      Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2007
      Thesis title: A flexible model for the semi-automatic location of services

    • M.S. Computer Science
      Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2001

  • Awards

    • First National Award in Computer Science
      Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, 2001
      Award to the best academic record in computer science of Spain

    • Special Award in Computer Science
      Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2001
      Award to the best academic record in computer science at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

  • Professional experience

    • R&D Project manager, Telefonica R&D
      March 2008 - present
      Madrid, Spain
      R&D project manager in the areas of user modeling, formal reasoning and semantics, semantic network analysis, and recommender systems

    • R&D manager, Analistas Financieros Internacionales
      February 2005 - February 2008
      Madrid, Spain
      R&D manager, co-responsible for the definition of the R&D agenda of the company and leader of different R&D projects in the areas of information integration, (semantic) SOA, and (semantic) information integration, with a focus on the financial and banking fields. This position also included a strong componet of management of Business Intelligence projects with customers in the banking industry.

    • Researcher and project manager, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
      February 2003 - February 2005
      Innsbruck, Austria and Galway, Ireland
      Researcher at DERI Innsbruck, Austria, in the field of semantic web and semantic web services, working for EU-funded research projects involving partners Europe-wide. Project manager of the EU network of Excellence Knowledge Web, and leader of the workpackage on semantic web services. This position included an intership in DERI Galway, Ireland.

    • IT analyst, Analistas Financieros Internacionales
      October 2000 - December 2002
      Madrid, Spain
      IT analyst for projects in the financial domain (financial simulators, foreign trade platforms, financial contents management and delivery, information portals) and project manager of the knowledge management system of the company.
      This position started with an 8 months internship as part of my university education, working in the development of financial simulators and the company knowledge management system.

  • Teaching experience

    • University of Innsbruck, Austria
      Telecooperation
      2003-2004

  • Internships

    • Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay
      Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina
      August-October 2002, working on machine learning and DNA computing as part of an exchange program of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI)

  • Organizing committee member

    • Abraham Berstein, Tommaso di Noia, Takahiro Kawamura, Matthias Klusch, Rubén Lara, Alain Lèger, David Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Axel Polleres, Ioan Toma. First Internacional Workshop SMR2-2007 on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retreival in the Semantic Web. 6th International Semantic Web Conference, Busan, Korea, November 11th, 2007.

    • Christoph Bussler, Rubén Lara, David Martin, Takahira Yamaguchi. Semantic Web Services: Towards Dynamic Business Integration workshop. 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), Chiba, Japan, May 11th, 2005.

    • David Martin, Takahira Yamaguchi, Rubén Lara. Semantic Web Services: Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications workshop. 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004), Hiroshima, Japan, November 8th, 2004.

    • Ying Ding, Dieter Fensel, Rubén Lara, Holger Lausen, Michael Stollberg, Sung-Kook Han. Application of Semantic Web technologies to Web Communities workshop. 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2004 (ECAI 2004), Valencia, Spain, August 23rd, 2004.

  • Program committe member

    • 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), Pathumthani, Thailand, December 8-11, 2008.

    • 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems and Applications (AIMSA 2008), Varna, Bulgaria, September 4-6, 2008.

    • 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, June 1-5, 2008.

    • FIRST 2007: Industrial Results of Semantic Technologies workshop at ISWC 2007, B Busan, Korea, November 11th, 2007.

    • First European Workshop on the Use of Ontologies in Logistics Applications (OntoLogistics2007), Bremen, Germany, September 29th, 2007.

    • III Jornadas Científico Técnicas en Servicios Web y SOA (JSWEB 2007). Saragossa, Spain, September 12-13, 2007.

    • Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Web for Services and Processes (SWSP 07) at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Julio 9th, 2007.

    • 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, June 3-7, 2007.

    • Making Semantics Work For Business workshop at ESTC 2007, Vienna, Austria, May 31st, 2007.

    • II Jornadas Científico Técnicas en Servicios Web (JSWEB 2006). Santiago de Compostela, Spain, November 16-17, 2006.

    • 1st International Workshop on Semantic Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval: Issues and Perspectives, at the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2006), Seoul, Korea, Septembe 11th, 2006.

    • Workshop on Methods, Architectures and Technologies for e-Service Engineering at International Conference of Web Engineering 2006 (ICWE 2006), July 11th, 2006.

    • Poster and Demo Session of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006.

    • Industry Forum of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006.

    • 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006.

    • 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 12-15, 2005.

    • 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005.

    • Semantic Web Case Studies and Best Practices for eBusiness workshop at the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005.

    • 4th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2005), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-26, 2005.

    • First UK Young Researchers Workshop on Service Oriented Computing, Leicester, UK, April 21-22, 2005.

    • 1st AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services (AKT-SWS04), Milton Keynes, UK, December 8th, 2004.

    • International Work Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NGWSP'05), Seoul, Korea, Agosto 23-26, 2005.

    • AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web Services, Stanford University, USA, March 22-24, 2004.

  • Journal reviews

    • Journal of Web Semantics.

    • International Journal of Electronic Commerce..

  • Other paper reviews

    • 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004), Hiroshima, Japan, November 8-11, 2004.

    • International Conference on Grid Services Engineering and Management (GSEM 2004), Erfurt, Germany, September 27-30, 2004.

    • 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2004), Whittlebury Hall, UK, October 5-8, 2004.

    • International Conference on Web Services 2004 (ICWS 2004), San Diego, California, USA, July 6-9, 2004.

    • 1st European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS 2004), Heraklio, Greece, May 10-12, 2004.

    • IADIS International Conference. WWW/Internet 2003. Algarve, Portugal, November 5-8, 2003.

    • 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003), Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2003.

    • 3rd International Conference on Web Engineering, Oviedo, Spain, July 14-18, 2003.

    • BIS 2003 (6th International Conference on Business Information Systems), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, June 4-6, 2003.

  • Tutorials

    • Rubén Lara. System Integration. Semantic Web School, Vienna, Austria, 2005.

    • Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara, David Martin, Sinuhe Arroyo, Christoph Bussler, Jos de Bruijn, Rubén Lara, Matthew Moran, Michael Stollberg, Michal Zaremba, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Liliana Cabral, John Domingue. Semantic Web Services. Thrid International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004), Hiroshima, Japan, 2004.

    • Sinuhé Arroyo, Christoph Bussler, Rubén Lara. Semantic Aspects of Web Services Standards. IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-04), Taipei, Taiwan, 2004.

    • Rubén Lara, Christoph Bussler. Semantic Web Services. Federated joined Conference FMOODS 2003-DAIS 2003, Paris, France, 2003.

  • Language skills

    • Spanish: mother tongue

    • English: fluent

    • German: intermediate

    • French: basic knowledge of the language

    • Italian: basic knowledge of the language

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