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 Francisco Caravaca Crespo
PhD Student

E-mail: fcaravac@it.uc3m.es
Address: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Avda de la Universidad, 30
E-28911 Leganés (Madrid) Spain
Visits: Escuela Politécnica Superior · Building Torres Quevedo ·
Office 4.1.C01


 SHORT BIO

    Francisco Caravaca Crespo is a PhD student in the Department of Telematics Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), holding a FPU fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Universities. He received his BSc in Telematics Engineering in 2022 and Master in Cybersecurity in 2023, both obtained at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He has received several awards, such as the Extraordinary Award for the best Academic Record in Telematics Engineering of his promotion.
 NEWS

  • 25/02/2025: Our work "Russian invasion as a European issue: Vertical Europeanisation of national political debates and the war in Ukraine" is published in European Union Politics.
  • 15/01/2025: Our work "Dataset of keywords used by European political parties on Facebook" is published in Data in Brief.
  • 19/11/2024: I present a session in the course "Cómo proteger la privacidad en la red" for Instituto Asturiano de Administración Pública “Adolfo Posada” (IAAP).
  • 18/07/2024: We present our paper "Overprofiling Analysis on Major Internet Players" at the 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.
  • 10/06/2024: We present our tutorial "Unveiling privacy and data protection issues from the use of social media and online advertising platforms" at ACM SIGMETRICS 2024.
  • 03/06/2024: Our work "Overprofiling Analysis on Major Internet Platforms" is accepted as a paper at PETS (Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium).
  • 16/11/2023: We present our tutorial "Unveiling privacy and data protection issues from the use of social media and online advertising platforms" at IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications 2023.
  • 15/11/2023: Francisco Caravaca starts his PhD studies holding a FPU fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Universities.
  • 09/11/2023: Our work "Estimating ideology and polarization in European countries using Facebook data" is presented as a poster at XVI Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática
  • 14/07/2023: Francisco Caravaca Crespo finishes his MSc in Cybersecurity.
  • 24/03/2023: Receives the Accésit to the best valued Bachelor's Thesis by the COITT.
  • 22/02/2023: Our work is featured in Nada es Gratis.
  • 02/02/2023: Our work is featured in several news media sites. Some examples: La Vanguardia, La Sexta (TecnoXplora).
  • 15/11/2022: Receives the Extraordinary Award for his Bachelor's Degree by UC3M.
  • 27/10/2022: Our paper "Estimating ideology and polarization in European countries using Facebook data" is accepted in EPJ Data Science.
  • 12/09/2022: Francisco Caravaca Crespo starts his MSc in Cybersecurity.
  • 23/03/2022: Francisco Caravaca Crespo finishes his BSc degree in Telematics Engineering.
  • 05/05/2019: Receives an Excellence Award by the Social Council of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, awarded in the students' modality.
  • 04/02/2019: Receives an Excellence Award by the Community of Madrid.
 RESEARCH

Publications:
  1. F. Caravaca, J. González-Cabañas, Á. Cuevas, and R. Cuevas, “Estimating ideology and polarization in European countries using Facebook data”, EPJ data science, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 56-56, 2022, doi: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00367-1.
  2. F. Caravaca, J. González-Cabañas, Á. Cuevas, and R. Cuevas, “Overprofiling Analysis on Major Internet Players,” Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2024.
  3. F. Caravaca, Á. Cuevas, and R. Cuevas, “Dataset of keywords used by European political parties on Facebook,” Data in Brief, vol. 58, p. 111280, 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.111280.
  4. A. Sojka, J. Terraza Palanca, F. Caravaca Crespo, and Á. Cuevas, “Russian Invasion as a European issue: Vertical europeanisation of national political debates in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine”, European Union Politics, vol. 26, no. 2, 2025.
Tutorials:
  1. Á. Merino, F. Caravaca, Á. Cuevas, and R. Cuevas, "Unveiling privacy and data protection issues from the use of social media and online advertising", IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, 2023.
  2. Á. Merino, F. Caravaca, Á. Cuevas, and R. Cuevas, "Unveiling privacy and data protection issues from the use of social media and online advertising", ACM SIGMETRICS 2024
 TEACHING

  • Web Analytics: 2024 (Bachelor in Data Science and Engineering)
  • Computer Networks: 2024 (Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering)
 AWARDS

  • Accésit to the best valued BSc Thesis by the COITT.
  • Extraordinary Award of the Bachelor's Degree in Telematics Engineering (awarded to the best academic record).
      November 2022.
  • Excellence Award by the Social Council of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  • Excellence Award by the Community of Madrid.
      February 2019.
 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
 LINKS

  • EU Political Barometer: an interactive web application to visualize the political state of European countries using data from the profiles of political parties in social networks.

  • Google Scholar
  • ORCID
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