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José Luis Risco Martín, Ph.D. Professor Office: 313, Building: Facultad de Informática C/Prof. José García Santesmases, 9 28040 Madrid Tel.: +34 91 394 7602
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Biography
José L. Risco-Martín was born in Don Benito, Extremadura, Spain. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 1998 and 2004, respectively. In 2007 he joined the Department of Computer Architecture and Automation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, where he is now a Full Professor. Previously he was Lecturer at Colegio Universitario de Segovia, Spain (from 1998 to 2000) and CES Felipe II, Spain (from 2000 to 2006). He has developed three pos-doctoral research stays at the University of Arizona (UoA, 2006), the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, 2019), and Carleton University (ARSLab, 2022), respectively. His research interests focus on Dicrete Event Systems, with emphasis on Cyber-Physical and Embedded Systems; Modeling, Simulation and Optimization; Parallel and Distributed Simulation; Edge and Cloud Computing; Artificial Intelligence in Modeling, Simulation and Optimization; and Feature Engineering.
In these fields, he has co-authored more than 210 publications in prestigious journals, conferences, books and book chapters. He has published more than 60 articles in journals included in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). From the papers published in conferences, 10 has been classified as Class A in the COmputing, Research and Education (CORE) ranking portal. He has also published 6 articles in non-indexed journals, 15 book chapters, 7 books and more than 120 publications in other conferences. Furthermore, he has given some invited talks, tutorials and seminars. He has participated in more than 20 projects in open public calls and more than 10 contracts with the industry, being the principal investigator in 4 of them. He has elaborated simulation and optimization models for companies like Airbus, Repsol or ENAGAS. He also holds 6 Spanish patents. He has been CTO of DUNIP Technologies LLC, and co-founder of BrainGuard SL.
He served as Director at Large of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) from 2020 to 2024. He is currently an associate editor of SIMULATION: Trans. of Soc. Mod. and Sim. Int. and ACM Computing Surveys. He has organized more than 15 Modeling and Simulation tracks, workshops and conferences including ANNSIM, DS-RT, ANSS, SCSC, SummerSim, SpringSim, etc. He has been Program Committee Member in more than 15 different conferences. Regarding the University environment, he has been Vice-Dean of International Relations at CES Felipe II (2004-2006). He served as head of the Department of Computer Architecture and Automation at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, from (2017-2020), and previously as sub-head of the same Department (2014-2016). He was coordinating the University Entrance Exam for the Community of Madrid in the area of Industrial Technology in 2017. He has received various awards, like the SCS Outstanding Service Award in 2017, and the HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award in 2018. He is ACM Senior Member and SCS Senior Member. Finally, he has national recognition for eighteen years of international-quality research.