SANTIAGO
MELIA BEIGBEDER

Santiago Meliá is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Alicante. He obtained his PhD with "Outstanding Cum Laude" with European mention in 2007 with the thesis "WebSA: An architecture model driven development method for Web Applications" focused on the integration of software architecture as a fundamental element in the development of Web applications. As a result of this work, multiple publications were obtained in journals and conferences (JWE, EC-Web, OOPSLA, ER, ICWE, WISE, etc.). Other research topics have been linked to the impact that MDE techniques have on performance improvement, maintainability and error reduction in application development. For this, he mainly based his work on the MDE proposal called OOH4RIA, a contribution that, together with his tool, has generated more than 20 publications, 3 doctoral theses, and its implementation has been used in teaching for more than 10 years, and in industry through transfer contracts. Since 2019, thanks to the national project that he co-directs with Sergio Luján called "Development of IoT systems for people with disabilities", he has started a line of work linked to the Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Twins and simulation techniques. As a result, he is working on the direction of three doctoral theses, linked to intelligent systems for remote monitoring, sustainable mobility through IoT and assistant robots, and IoT systems adaptable to disabilities. This research has been partially funded by his participation in 38 public research projects of which he was PI in 3 of them. His teaching work has mainly focused on Software Engineering and Software Design, being a professor of the subjects Software Systems Design, Software Engineering and Software Quality Management in the degree of Computer Engineering. In addition, he currently teaches the subject Multimedia System Design in the Multimedia Engineering degree. For his part, he has been director from 2007 to 2017 of the Master in Development of Web Applications and Services, being also during all that time and currently coordinator of the subjects Pattern Driven Design and Master's Final Project. His teaching work is complemented with the direction of more than 70 final projects of degree and master's degree. He has collaborated with private companies in 34 R+D+i contracts, of which he has been principal investigator in 27. Companies such as MERIDIANO S.A, ADHARA, ASV FUNESER S.L.U, AMBULANCIAS AYUDA S.L., etc.