Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig

Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig

Postdoc (Research Associate)

University of Glasgow

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Information Retrieval Group at the University of Glasgow, working on the use of natural language processing and machine learning techniques to extract useful signals and information from biomedical publications with Dr. Jake Lever. Previously, along Dr. Richard McCreadie, Prof. Craig Macdonald and Prof. Iadh Ounis, I explored the development and evaluation of recommender systems for financial investments, participating in and leading research and innovation projects in this space.

I obtained a PhD in Computer Science at the Information Retrieval Group at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, under the supervision of Prof. Pablo Castells. My thesis, titled Contact recommendation in social networks: algorithmic models, diversity and network evolution" explored the development of people-to-people recommendation methods and the effects of recommending links on the evolution of online social networks.

My research interests include recommender systems, information retrieval, natural language processing and graphs (social networks, knowledge graphs, citation graphs).

Interests
  • Recommender systems
  • Information retrieval
  • Natural language processing
  • Machine learning
  • Graphs (Knowledge graphs, social networks, citation graphs…)
  • Financial investments
  • Biomedical text classification
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2021

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid