PhD student Ismael Gómez Talal, internationally recognized

This researcher, who is currently completing his PhD at the Rey Juan Carlos University, has been awarded by the JCR Q1 journal 'Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology'.

Daniel Blazquez

Within the framework of the ENTER2025 conference, held in Wrocław (Poland), the International Federation of Information Technology and Travel and Tourism presented its IFITT Awards, which seek to recognize excellence in the field of IT and tourism research. On this occasion, one of the winners was URJC doctoral student Ismael González Talal, who received the 'Article of the Year 2025' award for his work, 'Avoiding Food Waste at Restaurant Entrances: A Big Data Management Tool,' published in the prestigious 'Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology,' alongside Lydia González Serrano, José Luis Rojo Álvarez, and Pilar Talón Ballestero.

This award follows months of arduous research by Gómez Talal, who has developed a project based on identifying consumption patterns in restaurants using artificial intelligence. To do so, the doctoral candidate relied on restaurant tickets from a Madrid restaurant, provided by the startup. DynameatIn this sense, the study's objective is twofold: on the one hand, it seeks to increase business revenue; on the other, it seeks to reduce food waste and improve sustainability. Thus, as the predoctoral researcher points out, "the study allows for proper inventory management, which optimizes sustainability and, in turn, increases the restaurant's revenue."

On the other hand, it should be noted that, as a result of the results of this article, a mobile application has been developed, registered as intellectual property with the Center for Innovation, Technology and Knowledge Transfer of the University. This line of study is associated with the High Performance Research Group in Biomedical Engineering and Data Science of the URJC and funded, in part, by the State Research Agency from the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

A career linked to the URJC

A graduate in Telecommunications Technology Engineering and Telematics Engineering from the Rey Juan Carlos University, Gómez Talal has dedicated almost his entire academic career to this institution, having also completed the Master's Degree in Information Systems Engineering and the Master's Degree in Revenue Management. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in two programs at the URJC: the Doctoral Program in Information and Communications Technologies and the Doctoral Program in Tourism (interuniversity). Therefore, receiving this award is, for the doctoral student, "a great honor," as it "represents enormous recognition from the academic community, both for the hospitality sector and for tourism studies within the university world," he concluded.

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