Victor Yeste

@upv.es

Adjunct Professor. Department of Applied Statistics and Operational Research, and Quality
Polytechnic University of Valencia

Victor Yeste
Computer engineer and PhD in Communication and Cultural Industries, with 10+ years of experience in analytics, SEO, and WordPress development, collaborating with international projects in Germany and the United States. With lines of research focused on the application of statistics, data science, and machine learning to sectors such as digital communication, culture, and marketing.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Communication and Cultural Industries
Polytechnic University of Valencia ~ 2014 - 2021
Doctoral thesis on analysis of trends and success prediction of digital content. Obtaining data using APIs for machine learning.

Master's Degree in Information Management
Polytechnic University of Valencia ~ 2012 - 2014
Analyze, design, select, organize, manage, evaluate, optimize and disseminate information products and services, content, media and social networks. Honorary enrolment in Auditing and Content Assessment. Other skills: SEO, SEM, SMO, digital marketing, usability, etc.

Degree in Computer Engineering
Polytechnic University of Valencia ~ 2007 – 2012
Fifth grade specialty: Industrial. Robotics and Image Processing.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Data Science
Machine Learning
Digital Analytics
Digital Marketing
SEO & SMO
19

Scholar Citations

2

Scholar h-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • More Context, Larger Models, or Moral Knowledge? A Systematic Study of Schwartz Value Detection in Political Texts
    V Yeste, P Rosso
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22641 , 2026
    2026
  • Do Schwartz Higher-Order Values Help Sentence-Level Human Value Detection? A Study of Hierarchical Gating and Calibration
    V Yeste, P Rosso
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00913 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • A Baseline Multimodal Approach to Emotion Recognition in Conversations
    V Yeste, R Rivas-Arévalo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00914 , 2026
    2026
  • Human values in a single sentence: Moral presence, hierarchies, and transformer ensembles on the schwartz continuum
    V Yeste, P Rosso
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.14172 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Explaining Electoral Abstention Among University Students in the Region of Valencia (Spain): The Role of Information Sources, Political Attitudes, and Civic Engagement
    JM Rojo, JM Tomás, V Yeste, E Cebrián
    Human Affairs 36 (3) , 2026
    2026
  • Identifying Key Factors of Student Dropout through Random Forest: A Data-Driven Approach
    DP Morán, MM Goméz, V Yeste
    International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies 2025 … , 2025
    2025
  • Success prediction of online news about TV series with machine learning, Google Analytics, and Twitter
    V Yeste, Á Calduch-Losa, JA Ontalba-Ruipérez, J Serrano-Cobos
    Journal of Computational Social Science 8 (3), 78 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Predicting the success of online news about movies with Google Analytics and Twitter: A machine learning methodology
    V Yeste, Á Calduch-Losa, JA Ontalba-Ruipérez, J Serrano-Cobos
    Journal of Statistics and Management Systems 28 (4), 761-793 , 2025
    2025
  • Agentic MCS: A Multilingual Clinical Summarization Framework
    J Angulo, V Yeste
    Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2025 … , 2025
    2025
  • AQAMS and AQAMS2: Multi agent systems for biomedical question answering
    J Angulo, V Yeste
    Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2025 … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Give me your hands: IA para la inclusión educativa mediante la traducción en tiempo real del lenguaje de signos
    V Yeste, HE Morató, AP O'Leary, MÁT Font
    Propuestas educativas en la era de la IA. Regulación y uso ético, 405-423 , 2025
    2025
  • Metodologías activas para facilitar el aprendizaje de estadística en el grado en ingeniería informática de la Universitat Politècnica de València
    Á Calduch-Losa, V Yeste
    Investigación e innovación educativa a través del conocimiento, 48-57 , 2025
    2025
  • Electoral abstention and information sources among undergraduate university students
    J Mora Rojo, JM Tomás, V Yeste, E Cebrián
    6th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics … , 2024
    2024
  • Metodologías activas para acercar la asignatura de Estadística al alumnado universitario de primer curso
    ÁC Losa, V Yeste
    Proceedings. 3rd International Congress: Humanities and Knowledge, 339-339 , 2024
    2024
  • Identifying influential factors in student dropout using decision trees
    DP Morán, MM Gómez, V Yeste
    Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Cognition and … , 2024
    2024
  • Selección de indicadores de éxito en contenidos online sobre ocio mediante estadística descriptiva
    V Yeste, ÁC Losa, JA Ontalba, JS Cobos
    Galaxia Zuckerberg: la comunicación en la era digital, 211-226 , 2024
    2024
  • Hashtags used by museums Twitter accounts from REMED in 2021
    V Yeste
    Hashtags used by museums Twitter accounts from REMED in 2021 , 2024
    2024
  • Twitter hashtag analysis of movie premieres in February 2022 in the USA
    V Yeste
    Twitter hashtag analysis of movie premieres in February 2022 in the USA , 2024
    2024
  • Use of hashtags in Hispanic digital native media
    V Yeste
    Use of hashtags in Hispanic digital native media , 2024
    2024
  • Google Analytics & Twitter dataset from a movies, TV series and videogames website
    V Yeste
    Google Analytics & Twitter dataset from a movies, TV series and videogames … , 2024
    2024

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Philo of Alexandria at Touché: A Cascade Model Approach to Human Value Detection.
    V Yeste, MC Ardanuy, P Rosso
    CLEF (Working Notes), 3503-3508 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 9
  • AQAMS and AQAMS2: Multi agent systems for biomedical question answering
    J Angulo, V Yeste
    Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2025 … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Do Schwartz Higher-Order Values Help Sentence-Level Human Value Detection? A Study of Hierarchical Gating and Calibration
    V Yeste, P Rosso
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00913 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Human values in a single sentence: Moral presence, hierarchies, and transformer ensembles on the schwartz continuum
    V Yeste, P Rosso
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.14172 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Success prediction of online news about TV series with machine learning, Google Analytics, and Twitter
    V Yeste, Á Calduch-Losa, JA Ontalba-Ruipérez, J Serrano-Cobos
    Journal of Computational Social Science 8 (3), 78 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Exploratory Twitter hashtag analysis of movie premieres in the USA
    V Yeste, Á Calduch-Losa
    Desafíos audiovisuales de la tecnología y los contenidos en la cultura … , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 1
  • More Context, Larger Models, or Moral Knowledge? A Systematic Study of Schwartz Value Detection in Political Texts
    V Yeste, P Rosso
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22641 , 2026
    2026
  • A Baseline Multimodal Approach to Emotion Recognition in Conversations
    V Yeste, R Rivas-Arévalo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00914 , 2026
    2026
  • Explaining Electoral Abstention Among University Students in the Region of Valencia (Spain): The Role of Information Sources, Political Attitudes, and Civic Engagement
    JM Rojo, JM Tomás, V Yeste, E Cebrián
    Human Affairs 36 (3) , 2026
    2026
  • Identifying Key Factors of Student Dropout through Random Forest: A Data-Driven Approach
    DP Morán, MM Goméz, V Yeste
    International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies 2025 … , 2025
    2025
  • Predicting the success of online news about movies with Google Analytics and Twitter: A machine learning methodology
    V Yeste, Á Calduch-Losa, JA Ontalba-Ruipérez, J Serrano-Cobos
    Journal of Statistics and Management Systems 28 (4), 761-793 , 2025
    2025
  • Agentic MCS: A Multilingual Clinical Summarization Framework
    J Angulo, V Yeste
    Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2025 … , 2025
    2025
  • Give me your hands: IA para la inclusión educativa mediante la traducción en tiempo real del lenguaje de signos
    V Yeste, HE Morató, AP O'Leary, MÁT Font
    Propuestas educativas en la era de la IA. Regulación y uso ético, 405-423 , 2025
    2025
  • Metodologías activas para facilitar el aprendizaje de estadística en el grado en ingeniería informática de la Universitat Politècnica de València
    Á Calduch-Losa, V Yeste
    Investigación e innovación educativa a través del conocimiento, 48-57 , 2025
    2025
  • Electoral abstention and information sources among undergraduate university students
    J Mora Rojo, JM Tomás, V Yeste, E Cebrián
    6th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics … , 2024
    2024
  • Metodologías activas para acercar la asignatura de Estadística al alumnado universitario de primer curso
    ÁC Losa, V Yeste
    Proceedings. 3rd International Congress: Humanities and Knowledge, 339-339 , 2024
    2024
  • Identifying influential factors in student dropout using decision trees
    DP Morán, MM Gómez, V Yeste
    Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Cognition and … , 2024
    2024
  • Selección de indicadores de éxito en contenidos online sobre ocio mediante estadística descriptiva
    V Yeste, ÁC Losa, JA Ontalba, JS Cobos
    Galaxia Zuckerberg: la comunicación en la era digital, 211-226 , 2024
    2024
  • Hashtags used by museums Twitter accounts from REMED in 2021
    V Yeste
    Hashtags used by museums Twitter accounts from REMED in 2021 , 2024
    2024
  • Twitter hashtag analysis of movie premieres in February 2022 in the USA
    V Yeste
    Twitter hashtag analysis of movie premieres in February 2022 in the USA , 2024
    2024