Dr. Fatos Xhafa is a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the same university, which he obtained in 1998. His teaching experience includes programming courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and he has supervised students at all academic levels: undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral.
Dr. Xhafa was a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, during the 2009/2010 academic year. His research interests focus on areas such as Big Data, Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and optimization.