Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science (Excellence in Education Award), head of the LAIA-UV research group at the University of Valencia and Research Fellow of the Laboratory for Agent Based Social Simulation (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) at the Italian National Research Council. Francisco Grimaldo received his PhD (Doctoral Dissertation Award), MSc and BSc in Computer Science from the University of Valencia, from where he also received his BSc in Telecommunications. His main research interests are applied artificial intelligence, web engineering and data analysis/visualization. He is Director of the Capgemini-UV Chair in innovation in software development and a board member of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Full Professor of Architecture and Technology of Computers at the Department of Computer Science, in the School of Enginering ETSE-UV, of the University of Valencia. Graduate in Physics (MSc, speciality of Electricity, Electronics and Computer Science) by the University of Valencia and PhD in Computer Science (Program of Parallel and Distributed Computing) by the Technical University of Valencia. Delegate of the Principal for the Digital University. Coordinator of the UV-Tirant node of the ICTS Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES). Research in cloud computing and video coding, and previously in parallel & distributed computing (numerical methods, coding and transcoding of video HD, bioinformatics, ...),  reconfigurable computing (multimedia applications and the prototyping of routers for high speed and quality of service), and network  protocols in applications of real time and tele-operated systems. He is Senior member of the IEEE.