He is currently the Director of the Master's Programme on Big Data Analytics. David E. Losada received his BS in Computer Science (with honors) in 1997, and his PhD in Computer Science (with honors) in 2001, both from the University of A Coruña (Spain). His current research interests include a wide range of Information Retrieval (IR) and related areas such as: IR probabilistic models, summarization, novelty detection, sentence retrieval, patent search and opinion mining. Losada is an active member of the IR community and he regularly serves in the Programme Committee of prestigious international conferences such as SIGIR or ECIR. He has also led several R&D projects and contracts in the area of search technologies. In 2011, Losada was recognised with an ACM senior member award.