Jose Aguilar received his B.S. degree in systems engineering in 1987  (Universidad de los Andes-Venezuela), his M.Sc. degree in computer sciences in 1991 (Universite Paul Sabatier-France), and his Ph.D. in computer sciences in 1995 (Universite Rene Descartes-France). He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Houston (1999-2000) and in the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systems, France (2010-2011). He is a titular professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, and is a contracted professor of the Department of Systems Engineering of the EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia. He was a postdoctoral research fellow of the GOT  ENERGY TALENT fellowship program, co-funded by the EU as part of the  H2020-MSCA-COFUND program, in the Department of Automática at the  Universidad de Alcala (2020-2022). Currently, he is a senior research at the IMDEA Network Institute. He is a member of the Mérida Science  Academy and was a member of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Neural  Networks (2010-2018). His research interests include artificial  intelligence, semantic mining, big data, emerging computing, and intelligent environments.