Asier Murciego

Senior IT & Big Data

Asier is a Senior Data Engineer. As a specialist in data management, architecture and analysis, he applies his technical expertise to the design of interactive tools geared towards research and knowledge transfer. His work facilitates the exploitation and communication of the multiple data sources used at the Institute. He also actively participates in research activities, contributing innovative methodologies to projects within the Basque Country ecosystem, as well as at national and European level.

Asier has developed Orkestra’s indicator management system, a key tool that has enabled the structuring and optimisation of regional data used in various Institute projects. Furthermore, he has collaborated on various European projects, coordinating the analysis of large volumes of data, specialising in the exploitation of business and intellectual property information.

His expertise encompasses advanced techniques such as social network analysis and the study of economic complexity. By combining these approaches with visual tools, he has contributed innovative analyses to successive editions of the Basque Country Competitiveness Report.

Career

He graduated with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of the Basque Country.
He co-founded a company specialising in IT security and network quality management alongside several fellow students.
In 2007 he joined Orkestra to provide data support, and has undertaken various roles since then.
In 2009 he studied Microeconomics of Competitiveness at the University of Deusto.
He deepened his understanding of advanced data analysis using machine learning techniques by attending the International Summer School on Deep Learning and the Big Data and Business Intelligence programme at the University of Deusto in 2017.