Organisation

Edurne Barrenechea Tartas (Pamplona, 1967) has a degree in Computer Science, specialised in Applications, by University of the Basque Country (Gipuzkoa Campus, 1985-1990) and has a PhD by Public University of Navarre (2005).

She began her professional career at the company KSB ITUR S.A. (Zarautz, Gipuzkoa) in the IT department (1990-2001), developing software applications for the commercial, financial, and production departments.

She joined the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) as an associate professor in 2001, and since 2023, she has held the position of full professor. She belongs to the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence area of the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. Barrenechea has primarily taught courses in Computer Engineering (both Bachelor’s degree and Master's degree), focusing on two main areas: on the one hand, database and project management subjects, and on the other, subjects within the field of artificial intelligence. She has also supervised more than 55 end-of-studies projects projects and received an "excellent" rating in the evaluation of her last two teaching activity periods.

In terms of research, she is part of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research group (ARIN) and the Institute of Smart Cities at UPNA. Her research lines mainly encompass fuzzy set theory, approximate reasoning, information fusion, classification, decision-making, and image processing. She is the co-author of over 60 publications in scientific journals with an impact factor (JCR), 20 book chapters, and 70 conference papers (40 of them international). Additionally, she has co-edited four special issues in JCR journals.

She has participated in 21 research projects with both public and private funding and has supervised 4 doctoral theses. She has been part of the organising committee for four international scientific conferences, three national ones, and ten special sessions.  She has served on technical committees for various international scientific conferences and has reviewed articles for scientific journals. She has also been a member of the editorial board of the journals "IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems" (6 years) and "Soft Computing" (5 years), as well as a board member of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) (6 years). Since 2013, she has been a board member of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA).

She is part of the Women, Science, and Technology Chair at UPNA and the Committee on Women in Computing of the Spanish Scientific Society for Informatics (SCIE), which aims to increase the presence of women in STEM degrees, particularly in computing, as well as to promote research in these areas and incorporate a gender perspective into them. 

Regarding academic management, she was deputy director of the Computer Engineering programmes at the Higher Technical School of Industrial, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering (ETSIIIT) (2011-2014), and secretary of the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics (2018-2019). She has also been a member of the Computer Engineering Accreditation Committee (C12) of the National Programme for Access to University Teaching Bodies of the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Certification (ANECA) from 2017 to 2019. Since 2019, she has been the Vice-Chancellor for Digital Development.

Miguel Pagola Barrio
Tel: 948 16 8058
E-mail: area.digital@unavarra.es

Miguel Pagola (Caracas, 1976) graduated in Industrial Engineering and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Public University of Navarre (2005).

His main lines of research address different applications of artificial intelligence, such as using deep learning techniques for image recognition, the application of machine learning to the predictive maintenance of wind turbines and the use of fuzzy sets and their extensions in approximate reasoning. He has published more than 30 papers in JCR-indexed journals, taken part in several research projects and supervised two PhD theses.

His experience in academic management includes being Deputy Head of the School of Industrial and ICT Engineering (ETSIIT), in which he was in charge of the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from 2015 to 2019.