Roberto Rodriguez-Echeverria

Roberto Rodriguez-Echeverria is an Associate Professor at the Computer Languages and Systems Department of the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain). He leads the Applied Informatic Technology Institute and co-founded MetrikaMedia, a SaaS company for multimedia content measurement. His research focuses on software engineering, model-driven engineering, machine learning, and legacy system modernization.

Education:

• Bachelor and Master in Computer Science (2000), Universidad de Extremadura
• Master on Education and IT (2012), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• PhD in Computer Science (2014), Universidad de Extremadura

Research interests include data-driven software development, medical image segmentation using SAM models, and educational technology applications like chatbot performance analysis in exams. He explores reproducible data science workflows and hybrid recommendation systems for media.

Recent work highlights include advancing loss function analysis for COVID-19 lung scans and developing cost-efficient medical image segmentation techniques leveraging SAM's zero-shot capabilities. He also studies the impact of AI tools like ChatGPT on academic assessment methods.

His contributions span over 50 publications since 2004, with recent focus on smart city applications, cloud cost estimation, and cooperative social process modeling. Rodriguez-Echeverria's work bridges theoretical computer science with practical industry solutions through his lab's applied research initiatives.

Labs/Teams:

• Applied Informatic Technology Institute (Director)
• i3 Lab (Affiliated)