Rafael Valencia García was born in Murcia on Dec 6, 1977. He received a Bs degree in Computer Science from the University of Murcia in 1999, and a Ms degree in Computer Engineering from the same university in 2001. He obtained a European PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 2005 from the University of Murcia.

He is a Full Professor in the Department of Informatics and Systems.

Research interests

• Natural Language Processing
• Emotion analysis
• Hate speech detection
• Author profiling
• Semantic Web technologies
• Ontologies
• Knowledge acquisition