José Valiente
Co-Founder And Research & Development Director at CyberDataLab
Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain
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Top SchoolJosé Valiente is a multidisciplinary AI and data science leader with 11 years of experience bridging learning analytics, human-computer interaction, and cybersecurity across academia and industry. As Co-Founder and R&D Director of SCORPION Cybertech and an Associate Professor at Universidad de Murcia, he drives applied research into cyber ranges, serious games, and disinformation while leading product and platform development. He has co-authored 140+ papers (h-index 33), secured over €9M across 34 funded projects, and earned 20+ research awards and fellowships, demonstrating rare success turning academic insights into funded, operational systems. His background includes postdoctoral work and collaborations at MIT and multiple visiting researcher roles, where he developed algorithms for cheating detection and community discovery in MOOCs. An experienced educator and mentor, he has taught 1000+ hours and co-supervised numerous BSc, MSc, and PhD theses, and he often translates research into usable visual analytics and cyber-training tools. Notably, he combines deep analytics expertise with hands-on product leadership, making him effective at moving prototypes into production-grade cyber training platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctorate (P.D.), Learning Analytics in MOOCs and Games for Learning, Postdoctorate (P.D.), Learning Analytics in MOOCs and Games for Learning at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCharles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Telecommunication Systems, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Telecommunication Systems at UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
openedx7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jruiperezv/ANALYSE
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Repository of the Learning Analytics tool ANALYSE for Open edX platform
Contributions:22 commits, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
openedx
jruiperezv/jruiperezv.github.io
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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