“The researcher of DeustoTech Computing Aitor Santamaría Ibirika has defended his doctoral thesis on 24th October in the Salon de Grados at the University of Deusto. He obtained the International Mention and Excelent cum laude qualification.”

Aitor Santamaría Ibirika, researcher of DeustoTech Computing has defended his doctoral thesis on Friday 24^th October in the Salón de grados of the University of Deusto. His thesis is titled “Nuevo enfoque para la generación procedural de mundos virtuales volumétricos” and it has been directed by the doctors Pablo García Bringas and Igor Santos Grueiro. His work is focused on the automatic generation of volumetric virtual worlds for interactive graphic applications. To this purpose, it uses spatial techniques and artificial intelligence algorithms, which generate the physical aspect of the virtual world and its playable structures. Additionally, this is the first work which proposes the metrics and the evaluation criteria for this type of generators.

The court, chaired by the doctor Mario Piattini Velthuis and formed by the doctors Giuseppe Psaila and Diego López de Ipiña, appreciated the scientific contributions —backed by the scientific community through several international conferences and high impact JCR publications — and the creation of a prototype. They unanimously awarded to the dissertation with the highest qualification and a cum laude distinction. On another front, the directors emphasised the required effort, the scientific quality of the work and the autonomy of the new PhD. Moreover, after conducting an international pre-doctoral stay at the Universitá Degli Studi Di Bergamo, his thesis has obtained the International Mention.

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“Jorge de la Peña Sordo, DeustoTech Computing research assistant, has defended his doctoral thesis on 24th October in the Salon de Grados at the University of Deusto, obtaining the highest qualification with Cum Laude Mention and an International Mention.”

Jorge de la Peña Sordo, 29 years old research assistant of DeustoTech Computing, has defended on Friday 24^th October, his doctoral thesis “MACRUSS: moderación automática de comentarios y reputación de usuarios en sitios web sociales”. The dissertation, which was directed by Igor Santos Grueiro, Ph. D. and Pablo García Bringas, Ph. D., addresses the problem of detecting troll users in the social news website Menéame and the prediction of their future behavior. In this way, he employed opinion mining, machine learning techniques, information retrieval methods and time series.

The court presided over by Emilio Corchado Rodriguez, Ph. D. and trained by Giuseppe Psaila, Ph. D. and Asier Perallos Ruiz, Ph. D., awarded to the dissertation the highest qualification of Outstanding “Cum Laude” unanimously. Furthermore, after conducting an international pre-doctoral stay at the Universitá Degli Studi Di Bergamo, his thesis has obtained the International Mention.

The directors of the doctoral investigation recognized the enormous effort and significant scientific contribution that the investigation of the new Ph. D., backed by the scientific community through national and international conferences as well as JCR publications directly related to his work.

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