Juan Manuel Corchado is a full professor at the University of Salamanca. He was Vice President for Research from 2013 to 2017 and is the director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Chosen twice as the Dean of the Faculty of Science, he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Salamanca and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He is the director of a renowned research group called BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems, and Educational Technology), which was created in the year 2000.
J.M Corchado is also the director of the IOT Digital Innovation Hub and the president of the AIR Institute. He has been a visiting professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015. He is also a visiting professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and a member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL).