Andrea Conchado
Andrea Conchado holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. She works as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Statistics and Operational Research and Quality in this university. She has co-authored research papers in scientific journals, research books and book chapters with prestigious publishers. She has collaborated as a researcher in research projects, most of them funded by the European Commission. Her research interests lie in the areas of research methodology and applied statistics for social sciences, specifically the application of structural equation modelling to the assessment of the validity and reliability of measurement instruments in Education.
Cláudia Antunes
Cláudia Antunes is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa. Concluded her PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering by the same university, on 2005, in the data science domain, proposing new methods and methodologies to deal with temporal data, in particular for mining sequential patterns. Her main research interests are in the area of Data Science, in particular to what concerns to the usage of knowledge domain, the exploration of the temporality to enrich the classification task, and to use it to enhance the educational process. She has coordinated and participated on several national and European research projects and has more than seventy papers published in journals and international conferences. Along with this work, she supervised Master and PhDs students, accounting for about forty students who concluded their work under her supervision. She has been lecturing data science courses for twenty years, both in graduation and post-graduation programs.
