Big Data Fundamentals & Applications in Bioinformatics

Big Data Fundamentals & Applications in Bioinformatics

	Course
Place:	On Campus (Murcia)
Duration:	2 weeks
Hours:	40 hours
Visits:	1 per week
Schedule:	Monday to Friday 09:00-14:00 or 16:00-21:00
Dates:	January / July
Credits	4 ECTS
Minimum:	10 students
Price:	2.200€

Services Included
1 Professor/tutor for free Professor/tutor for free
Accommodation
Breakfast and lunch (excluding weekends)
Transport Card (Murcia city)
Teaching materials
UCAM welcome pack
Murcia city guided tour
UCAM Course Completion Certificate
1 company visit per week
Airport transfer to Murcia or Pick up services are not incluided

Objectives
To explore techniques and tools for interpreting and analyzing large volumes of data.
To study and analyse different hardware architectures in Big Data environments.
To analyse and understand different strategies for cleaning, modeling and analyzing data from the Big Data perspective.
To learn security and privacy techniques applied to Big Data.
To learn about real problems where the problem of large volumes of data is present, especially in Bioinformatics.

Teaching Staff

Andrés Muñoz

Phd

C.V

Senior lecturer in the Technical School at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Spain. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2011 at the University of Murcia.

Ricardo Rodríguez Schmidt

Phd

C.V

He is a member of the Structural BioInformatics and High Performance Computing at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Spain. He obtained his PhD in Computational Chemistry in 2012 at the University of Murcia.

Helena den Haan Alonso

Phd

C.V

She has a BS in Biology and a MS in Bioinformatics obtained in 2011 at the University of Murcia. Currently she is an Industrial PhD student in collaboration with the pharma company Villapharma.

José L. Abellán

Phd

C.V

He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, in 2007, 2008 and 2012, respectively. From 2012 to 2014, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

José M. Cecilia

Phd

C.V

He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Murcia (Spain, 2005), his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Cranfield (United Kingdom, 2007), and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Murcia (Spain, 2011).

Raquel Martinez España

Phd

C.V

She is an Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. She received her B.S M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, in 2009, 2010 and 2014,respectively.

José Pedro Cerón-Carrasco

Phd

C.V

He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Murcia in Spain (2009). He joined the University of Namur in Belgium (2009), the University of Nantes in France (2011), and the University of Murcia in Spain (2013) during his postdoctoral training supported by Fundación Séneca and the European FP7 Marie Curie program.

Fernando Pereñíguez-García

Phd

C.V

He received B.E, M.E and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from University of Murcia in 2007, 2008 and 2011, respectively.

Joaquín Lasheras

Phd

C.V

He is an Associate Professor in the Technical School at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Spain. He had previously obtained his BSc and MSc degrees (computer science) in 2003 and 2005 respectively at the University of Murcia. He obtained his PhD in 2011 at the same university.

Francisco Arcas

Phd

C.V

He is an Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. He received her B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, in 1991, 1993 and 2008,respectively.

Horacio Pérez Sánchez

Phd

C.V

He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Murcia in Spain (2006). He joined the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in Germany (2007),Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2009), during his postdoctoral training supported by German Ministry of Science and FP7 Marie Curie programme.