Jose Hernandez-Orallo is currently an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems and Computation at the Technical University of Valencia (Spain). He holds a BS and an MS in Computer Science from the Technical University of Valencia, an MS in Engineering from the ¿cole Nationale Sup¿rioure de l'¿lectronique et de ses Applications (France), an MS in Artificial Intelligence, and a Ph.D. in Logic with a doctoral extraordinary prize from the University of Valencia.

He has worked for several companies in areas ranging from software development to cryptography in electronic commerce. Since 1996, he has been part of the associate academic staff of the Department of Information Systems and Computation at the Technical University of Valencia, where he has taught courses on software engineering, programming technology, requirement elicitation, software development environments, database systems, and data mining. In 2001, he became an associate professor.

His research interests are quite varied, and include several aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning, software engineering, programming languages, computer networks, and information systems. He has written four books about these topics, as well as several book chapters, journal articles, and conference publications.

Presently, he is particularly interested in machine learning, especially data mining and knowledge discovery from databases, inductive (logic) programming and reinforcement learning, decision support systems and classifier evaluation, the application and relationship between ML and software engineering, and the relationship between induction and deduction within the framework of Kolmogorov complexity. In his spare time, Jose is also well known as the best paella cook worldwide.