Alberto Abelló

Albert Abelló holds a PhD in Computer Science and a professor in the Department of Services and Information Systems Engineering at the UPC, an expert in Big Data and Business Intelligence. He is a member of the DTIM group (Database Technologies and Information Management Group). He carried out research stays at the University of Granada (Spain), the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), the Université Claude Bernard Lió 1 (France), the Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). He has participated in 24 national and international research projects or networks of excellence, and has signed R&D agreements with companies such as Hewlett Packard or SABE. At the request of the UPC Center for Development Cooperation, he accepted the challenge of collaborating with the WHO Department of Neglected Diseases. He has led the project to create the database for this department.