José Antonio Parejo Maestre has over 20 years of professional experience, including 7 years as a programmer, analyst, and project manager in the private sector, and 14 years as researcher at the University of Seville. He earned his degree in Computer Engineering in 2002 from the University of Seville and obtained a Doctorate with International Mention in 2013, for which he also received the university’s Extraordinary Doctorate Award. He is currently an Associate Professor and a researcher in the Applied Software Engineering group.

His research interests began in optimization with metaheuristics. For his final degree project, he developed a framework for the programming and execution of such algorithms, which won the 2nd prize for the best final project in the 2002/2003 academic year. Additionally, he was awarded the 3rd prize for the best academic record in that same year. Shortly after graduating (2003), while working in the private sector, he published a paper in an international conference presenting this framework. During the rest of his work on the private sector, his research shifted to an area closer to his professional activity, focusing on software development for urban and pedestrian traffic planning, optimization and simulation. Upon joining the academia, he directed his activities toward Software Engineering and Service-Oriented Computing, addressing optimization problems in these areas using metaheuristic algorithms. His expertise in this area helped as a foundation for the Search Based Software Engineering research line in the context of the ISA research group. Later his strong background on experimental design, statics and data analysis contributed to strengthening the Empirical Software Engineering research line of the group ISA Research Group. His recent research interests include service governance, pricing-driven development and operation of SaaS, quantum computing, and applications of GenAI to Software Engineering teaching.

According to Google Scholar, his work has received 1,455 citations, with an h-index of 19 and an i10-index of 21. He has contributed to more than 30 scientific publications, including 15 articles in ISI-JCR-indexed journals and 5 contributions to internationally recognized conferences in the field (indexed in SCI and ranked as Category A in the CORE index). He has also completed a 3-month predoctoral research stay at the Polytechnic University of Milan with Barbara Pernici’s group, contributing to several international conference publications on Green Certificates for service-oriented applications. Later he performed a 6-month post-doctoral stay at the University of Córdoba collaborating with José Raul Romero and the group of Sebastián Ventura, resulting in a journal publication on the QoS-aware Service Composition problem.

He has participated in 10 R&D projects—5 national and 5 regional—. Additionally, he has contributed to 10 other projects under Articles 68/83 of the Spanish Universities Act (LOU), serving as principal researcher for two of them. His research has resulted in two registered software programs that have been successfully transferred to industry.

He co-organized the first international workshop on Service Oriented Computing for AI applications in the context of ICSOC 2024. He has supervised 39 final degree projects, earning both local and national awards. From 2008 to 2019, he served as the management assistant for his research group, achieving certification in quality management standards such as ISO-9001 (quality management), UNE-166002 (R&D+i management), and ISO-14001 (environmental management). He serves as regular reviewer in top tier journals and international conferences in the software engineering area. He has served as co-chair of the AI for Software Engineering track of the spanish national conference on the area (JISBD) for several years.