Dr. Angel A. Juan is a Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Alcoy Campus), and the Lead Researcher of the ICSO Meta group at the CIGIP research center. Also accredited as Full Professor in Computing and Artificial Intelligence by ANECA, as well as in Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business by AQU, he has been a Full Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, as well as Lecturer in the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School at the University College Dublin (Ireland), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universidade Aberta (Portugal), Euncet Business School, and Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy).
Dr. Juan holds a Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics, an M.S. in Information Systems, and an M.S. & B.Sc. in Mathematics. He completed predoctoral internships at Harvard University (USA) as well as at Universidad de Alicante, and has been Visiting Researcher at the following institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), University of Southampton (UK), University of Portsmouth (UK), Technical University of Dortmund (Germany), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), LAAS-CNRS (France), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Austria), and University of Bologna (Italy).
His main research interests include applications of Business Analytics Methods & Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Transportation, Logistics, Production, and Risk Analysis. He has published over 180 articles in JCR-indexed journals, over 90 articles in ABS-indexed journals, and more than 380 documents indexed in Scopus. Dr. Juan is or has been principal investigator in over 20 R&D projects, including multiple Spanish R&D projects, Horizon Europe projects, CYTED international networks, Spanish networks of excellence, France-Spain CTP networks, regional projects, and Erasmus+ Consortia. In addition, he has contributed as a researcher in many other R&D projects of international and national scope.
Dr. Juan is a founder and coordinator of the EURO Working Group on Business Analytics & Artificial Intelligence, a board member of the Decision Science Alliance (DSA), a research member of the Valencian GS and Research Network of Artificial Intelligence (ValgrAI), a member of the Spanish Transportation Engineering Forum (FIT), and a member of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO). He is also an expert member of the Mathematics and Business panels of the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) and the Agencia Andaluza del Conocimiento. Dr. Juan has been a council member of the INFORMS i-Sim society, as well as an executive council member of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research. He is also referee of the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) as well as editorial board member of several international journals: Internet of Things, J. of Simulation, European J. of Industrial Engineering, Algorithms, Int. J. of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, Int. J. of Educational Technology in Higher Education, etc. He has been General co-Chair of several international conferences (SimuTools, DSA International Summer Conference, Metaheuristics International Conference, etc.), as well as proceedings editor and session chair in the prestigious Winter Simulation Conference.
Dr. Juan is currently the Academic Director of the Master in Computational Engineering & Industrial Mathematics at UPV. He has also been Academic Director of the MBA at UPV, the Master in Computational Engineering & Mathematics at UOC, and the Master in Bioinformatics & Biostatistics at UOC. He has also been the UOC Academic Director of the inter-university Doctoral Program in Bioinformatics (Data Science). He has supervised over 16 PhD theses, 50+ MSc. theses, and 75+ BSc. theses (already finished) in up to 8 different universities in Spain, the UK, Ireland, Portugal, Germany, and the Netherlands.
His research trajectory has been recognized with different awards, such as the 2013 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya’s research award in Technology, the 2017 Luis Azcárraga award by the ENAIRE Foundation, and the 2024 Universitat Politècnica de València research award in Computer Science. Dr. Juan has been included in different national and international rankings, such as the ones provided by the DIH Group, and the Research.com. He is also included in the Stanford list of the top 2% cited scientists worldwide.
Scopus docs = 380+, h-index = 53; Web of Science articles = 300+, h-index = 47; GScholar h-index = 69, i10-index = 200+. Researcher ID: GWZ-7540-2022, Orcid code: 0000-0003-1392-1776, Scopus ID: 56129392700.
