Vice Dean and Associate Professor of the School of Engineering at the University of Valencia (Excellence in Education Award) and a 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 agent-based modelling/simulation, machine learning and data analysis/visualization. He is Director of the Capgemini-UV Chair in innovation in software development and Vice Chair of the PEERE: New Frontiers of Peer Review COST Action. He is also member of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence and of the Association for the study of Socio Technical Complex Systems.

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 for the Digital University. 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.