Ruth Cobos is an Associate Professor (TU) in the Department of Computer Engineering of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), where she received her PhD in Computer Engineering in 2003. She is member of the research group "Grupo de Herramientas Interactivas Avanzadas" (GHIA) since 1998, member of the Management Committee of the eMadrid Research Network for eLearning, member of the Spanish Network of Learning Analytics (SNOLA) and member of the research group "Grupo de Excelencia Cognición y Contexto: el aprendizaje colaborativo mediado por ordenador" at University of Lleida (UdL) since 2005.

As Delegate of the Rector for Educational Technologies (2014-2016) at UAM, she directed the technical office at UAM for the generation and creation of UAM MOOCs at edX. She is the coordinator of the MOOC instructor team of the course entitled “Introducción al desarrollo de aplicaciones web” (“Introduction to the Web Applications Development”) .

Nowadays, she leads the technological development in these initiatives: NeuroContigo.org and EducamosContigo.org

Her principal research areas of interest include Learning Analytics, MOOCs, e-learning, Blended Learning, Social Learning, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, CSCL and Educational Technologies.