Dr. Xavier Oriol Hilari has been teaching software engineering at the Barcelona School of Informatics (Department of Services and Information Systems Engineering, ESSI) since 2014, and he has been an adjunct lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) since 2017, the same year he earned his PhD from the university. His thesis on data integrity received an international mention and was awarded an Excellent Cum Laude.
In 2017, he joined inLab FIB, where he currently works as research support staff and project manager. His research interests focus on ensuring data quality incrementally and semantic data integration, both highly relevant topics in fields such as Big Data and the Internet of Things (Yacht).