
Stella M. Heras Barberá
Stella M. Heras Barberá holds a PhD cum laude in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de València (2011), with European Mention and Extraordinary Doctoral Award, specialising in artificial intelligence. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at UPV, where she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes since 2007. She also holds an Executive Master in Project Management from the Universitat de València and a University Specialist qualification in University Pedagogy (UPV, 2011).
Since 2005 she has been a member of the GTI-IA research group at VRAIN. She has participated in 22 research projects in the field of AI, with her work focusing on computational argumentation, persuasive technologies and recommender systems, and their application to online education, disinformation and bias detection in argumentative discourse, and decision support in healthcare. She regularly serves on organising and programme committees of international conferences, as a reviewer for high-impact journals, and as an external reviewer for the European Commission since 2018. In 2014 she received the Valencia IDEA Prize for her technology transfer project receteame.com, an AI-based application for recipe recommendation to people with dietary restrictions.
