Rafael C. Carrasco received his degree in Physics from the University
of Valencia (1987), a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University
of Valencia (1991) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Alicante (1997).

In 1992 he joined the Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas
Informáticos at the Universidad de Alicante teaching, as profesor, on
the following subjects: formal languages and automata theory;
algorithmics and machine learning; digital libraries and markup
languages. He was the Head of the Department from June 1997 to July
2001. In the period 2002-2016, he lead the technological development of the Miguel
de Cervantes digital library (hhtp://www.cervantesvirtual.com).

His research interests include: grammar induction from stochastic
samples; probabilistic automata; recurrent neural networks and rule
encoding; markup languages, open data and digital libraries; finite-state methods
in automatic translation; computer simulation of photonuclear
reactions. He has published over 30 articles in high impact journals
and over 50 communications in international conferences. He has also
leaded several research projects funded by the Spanish Government and
the European Commission.