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Cristóbal Romero
Cristóbal Romero
University of Córdoba, Cordoba
Regular Member
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Short Biography
Cristóbal Romero is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis at the University of Córdoba. He received his BSc and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Granada, Spain, in 1996 and 2003 respectively. He has published more than 40 international papers, 15 of which have been published in international journals. He is the co-editor of two books specifically regarding EDM. His current research interest is focussed on the application of data mining in e-learning systems. Dr. Romero is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the International EDM Working Group and the steering committee of several conferences about education, personalisation and data mining.
List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years
C. Romero, A. Zafra, J.M. Luna, S. Ventura. Association rule mining using genetic programming to provide feedback to instructors from multiple-choice quiz data. Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering (2012) In press.

C. Romero, S. Ventura. Preface to the Special Issue on Data Mining for Personalised Educational Systems.. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 21:1-2 (2011) 1-3.

C. Romero, S. Ventura. Educational Data Mining: A Review of the State-of-the-Art.. IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C 40:6 (2010) 601-618.

C. Romero, A. Zafra, S. Ventura, P. de Bra. Applying Web Usage Mining for Personalizing Hyperlinks in Web-based Adaptive Educational Systems. Computers and Education 53 (2009) 828-840.

C. Romero, S. Ventura, E. García. Data mining in course management systems: Moodle case study and tutorial. Computer & Education 51:1 (2008) 368-384.



List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years

Program Chairs of International Workshop on Applying Data Mining in e-Learning (ADML) as part of the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced  Learning (EC-TEL) Crete, Greece. 17-20 September. 2007.

 Conference Chair  of II International Conference on Educational Data Mining.  Córdoba 1-3 July 2009.

Posters and Demos Chair of  4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM).  6-8 July, Eindhoven, Netherland. 2011.

Program Co-chair of 11th International Conference on
Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) Córdoba22-24 November 2011.

Publicity Chair of  20th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP). Montreal, July 16-20. 2012.