Rosa Filgueira

Rosa Filgueira is a Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, and Group Leader of the Systems Research Group (SRG). She holds an Honorary Research Fellow title and is a member of the UK Young Academy. Her career includes roles as Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Vice President Applied Researcher at JPMorgan Chase, and Senior Data Scientist at the British Geological Survey. She earned her BSc and MSc from the University of Deusto (Spain) and a PhD from University Carlos III Madrid (Spain).

Her research focuses on advanced information processing technologies to accelerate scientific discovery, emphasizing distributed systems, data-streaming optimizations, and reproducible frameworks. Key areas include serverless computing, adaptive communication techniques, and AI-driven software analysis. She teaches CS3031 Databases (undergraduate) and CS5020 Principles of Computer Communication Systems (postgraduate), supervising multiple student projects.

Rosa’s work addresses challenges in health, earth sciences, and digital humanities. Notable projects include cultural analytics frameworks for the creative industries and AI tools for historical text mining. She leads initiatives like the Laminar serverless framework and the frances NLP tool for heritage texts.

Her awards include the UK Young Academy membership and National Librarian's Research Fellowship. Current grants include the British Academy-funded Decoding Democracy project. She actively collaborates internationally, contributing to IEEE eScience conferences and open-source projects like dispel4py and Inspect4py.

Labs/Teams: Systems Research Group (SRG), leading interdisciplinary collaborations in HPC and data science. Her work bridges computer science with domain-specific applications, emphasizing real-world impact through reproducible software solutions.