David Enrique Losada Carril

David Enrique Losada Carril is a Full Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the CiTIUS Research Center of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He holds a PhD in Computer Science (2001, University of A Coruña) and has been active in Information Retrieval (IR) research since joining the university in 2003 as a senior research fellow under the Ramón y Cajal program.

• BS and PhD (with honors) from University of A Coruña
• ACM Senior Member awardee (2011)
• Co-founder of the eRisk CLEF Lab for early risk detection on the internet
• Active in IR community with roles in ACM SIGIR, ECIR, and CLEF

Research Focus spans probabilistic IR models, novelty detection, health search technologies, and mental health analysis via social media monitoring. His recent work explores large language models for depression symptom assessment and misinformation detection in health contexts.

Scientific Leadership includes:

• Principal Investigator for projects like Big-eRisk and LudoTrack
• Co-author of over 20 top-tier publications (SIGIR, ECIR, ACL, ECIR, Springer series)

Technical Contributions feature real-time social media analysis platforms (e.g., Catenae, eXtream) and benchmark datasets like DepreSym for depression detection.