David Gil Méndez

David Gil Méndez is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology at the Department of Information Technology and Computing, University of Alicante. He earned his Doctorate in Computer Engineering from the University of Alicante in 2008 and has supervised 5 PhD theses to date.

• Member of European Network of Scientific Excellence in AI (ELLIS)
• Coordinator of 3 European COST Action projects (2021-2027)
• Published 50+ JCR journal articles

His research focuses on Big Data applications, Machine Learning, Data Mining, IoT, and Human Activity Recognition, with particular emphasis on healthcare AI and clinical data analysis. He has developed frameworks for decentralized IoMT environments and conducted extensive work on explainability in medical machine learning models.

Recent publications address metastasis prediction in rare tumors (2025), photovoltaic energy forecasting (2022), and blockchain voting systems (2020). His work spans both theoretical and applied domains, including educational data mining and cyber-physical systems.

As teaching experience, he has delivered courses in Operating Systems (14 times), Computational Modeling (5 times), Data Mining (5 times), and Big Data Technologies (5 times) at University of Alicante across multiple engineering disciplines.

He leads research projects funded by:

• European Commission (3 active COST Actions)
• Valencian Government (2020-2021)
• Spanish Ministry of Education (2009-2010)