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About Me

Name Delfina Ramos Vidal
Role Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidade da Coruña
Location A Coruña, Spain
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Summary Postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade da Coruña, focusing on the evolution and maintainability of variability-intensive legacy systems. My work bridges software product lines and data-intensive systems, addressing the co-evolution of code, data schemas, and data.

Education

  • 2021.10 - 2025.10
    PhD in Computing
    Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
    • Thesis "Automated Evolution of Data Schemas in Variability-Intensive Information Systems". Awarded Cum Laude distinction.
    • International Doctorate. Six-month research stay at the North Carolina State University, United States of America.
  • 2024.01 - 2024.07
    Visiting Scholar
    North Carolina State University, NC, United States of America
  • 2020 - 2021
    MSc. in Data Science
    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
    • Master's Final Project Award funded by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Grants for official masters).
    • Final Project "SPARQL evaluation over compact data structures"
  • 2020 - 2021
    Degree in Computer Science
    Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
    • Coursed bilingual studies in Spanish-English.
    • Specialized in Information Systems.
    • Final Project "Tool for the semi-automatic generation of software for Digital Libraries"

Research Experience

  • 2025 - 2026
    Postdoctoral FPI Fellowship
    Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
    • Postdoctoral fellowship for Research Personnel Training (FPI) granted by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
    • Expand prior doctoral research on variability-intensive information systems.
    • Led research dissemination through high-impact publications and international conferences.
  • 2022 - 2025
    Predoctoral FPI Fellowship
    Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
    • Predoctoral fellowship for Research Personnel Training (FPI) in the national project "Enhanced Exploitation of Trajectories with Compact Data Structures and GIS." (Ref. PID2020-114635RB-I00).
    • Research, design, implement, and validate solutions to automate evolution of variability-intensive information systems.
    • Preparation of scientific papers and presentation at national and international conferences.
    • Contribute to the development of international, national, European, and internal projects.
  • 2020 - 2022
    Research Assistant
    Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
    • Research for the Database Laboratory at Universidade da Coruña.
    • Analysis and implementation of a solution to integrate Compact Data Structures for RDF with SPARQL.
    • Preparation of scientific papers and presentation at national and international conferences.
    • Development of solutions in R&D projects.

Teaching Experience

  • 2022 - 2025
    Predoctoral Fellow
    Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
    • Teaching Assistant, BSc in Artificial Intelligence. Databases and Storage, Preprocessing and Advanced Data Analysis.
    • Teaching Assistant, BSc in Economics. Computer Science for Business.
    • Teaching Assistant, BSc in Computer Science. Computer Sciences Preliminaries and Business Process Management.
  • 2022
    Substitute Teaching
    Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
    • Teaching Assistant, BSc in Computer Science. Computer Sciences Preliminaries, Business Process Management

Honors and Awards

  • 2021
    Master's Final Project Award (Year 2020-2021)
    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
    Awarded by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid for the Final Project titled "SPARQL evaluation over compact data structures".
  • 2021
    Spanish Society of Academic Excellence
    • Identification Nº 4339.
    • Position 57 in the 2021 National Ranking in Computer Science.

Publications

Research & Development Projects

  • 2023.01 - 2024.01
    Digitization of "Literary Edition in Galicia, 1975-2000"
    • Project management for the development of the website that presents the results of the project "A edición literaria na Galiza, 1975-2000" (PID2020-119605RB-I0).
    • Team management, organization, distribution of tasks and negotiation of requirements with the client.
    • Integration of the DAMI-Framework for data migration, which managed to reduce manual effort in the data migration tasks by 30%.
    • Technologies: NodeJS / Vue / PostgreSQL/ Docker / Nginx / SQL / NPM / REST / Tomcat / Git
  • 2022.06 - 2023.03
    Project "Reengineering of the Galician Virtual Library"
    • Project management, team management, organization and distribution of tasks.
    • Negotiation of requirements with the client.
    • Integration of the Software Product Line for Digital Libraries, which managed to save 40% in time and cost.
    • Technologies: NodeJS / Vue / PostgreSQL/ Bootstrap / Docker / Nginx / SQL / NPM / REST / Axios / Git
  • 2021.04 - 202.02
    Project "Intercultural Digitization" Content Cloud
    • Development of a comprehensive platform for language teaching, focused on the content cloud node.
    • Analyze and guide the integration of an H5P server that would allow the use of interactive resources.
    • Technologies: NodeJS / Vue / Vuetify / Docker / Nginx / SQL / NPM / Axios / TypeScript / H5P / Git
  • Full list of projects at Projects

Conference Organization

  • 2026
    Social Media Chair for VARIABILITY 2026
    Responsible for promoting the International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration through academic channels and social media.
  • 2025
    Publicity Co-Chair for SPLC 2025
    Responsible for promoting the 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference through academic channels, mailing lists, and social media.

Skills & Interests

  • Technical Skills.
    • Web Development: Vue 2 and 3 (5 yrs.), JavaScript (5 yrs.), NodeJS (4 yrs.), NPM (4 yrs.), Bootstrap (1 yr.)
    • Databases: SQL (9 yrs.), NoSQL (2 yr.), PostgreSQL (6 yrs.), ETL (6 yrs.)
    • Infrastructure: Spring (5 yrs.), Hibernate (5 yrs.), JPA (5 yrs.)
    • Statistical analysis: R (5 yrs.), Statgraphics (1 yr.)
    • Data analysis: Python (3 yrs.), Pandas (3 yrs.)
    • Machine Learning: Python (3 yrs.); Weka (1 yr.)
    • Others: Git (6 yrs.), Docker (3 yrs.)
  • Languages
    • English: Proficient (C2 Level – Cambridge University Certificate in Advanced Englishnt).
    • Spanish: Native speaker.
    • Galician: Proficient (C1 Level – CELGA 4 Certificate).
  • Certifications
    • SAP Certified Associate: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Financial Accounting (02/2025)
    • NVIDIA: Fundamentals of Deep Learning (11/2022)

Volunteer Activities

  • 2019-now
    Hello Sisters Association
    Participation in an association for the visibility of women in Computer Engineering.