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JOURNALS

·        Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Physical Agents in  Multimedia Tools and Applications (2021).

·        Editor of the Advances in Physical Agents II, part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 1285). Springer (2020)

·        Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2014 - )

·        Editorial Board of The Scientific World Journal Signal Processing (2013)

·        Editorial Board of International Journal of Vehicular Technology (2012 - 2017)

·        Associate Editor of Journal of Physical Agents (2007 - )

·        Guest editor of the Special Issue "New Trends towards Automatic Vehicle Control and Perception Systems" in MDPI Sensors journal. 2012- 2013

·        Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Robust & Efficient Vision Techniques for Intelligent Vehicles” in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems journal, 2016-2017.

 

ASSOCIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

·        Founder Member of ELLIS-Madrid Unit. June 2022 -.

·        Member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS Society). August 2020 -.

·        Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for the Autonomous vehicles and intelligent transportation field. July 2019- December 2021.

·        Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems (RAS TC on Autonomous Ground Vehicles and ITS).

·        Member of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (IEEE-ITS)

·        Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society(IEEE-RAS)

·        Member of the Automation Spanish Committee in the Robotic Group (CEA-Robotica). 

·        Member of the Robotic Technological Spanish Platform (HISPAROB)

 

 CONFERENCES ORGANIZATION

·        2023. Chair at the Workshop RoboCity2030-DIH:  Intelligent robotics in health and care challenges. March 2023.

·        2021. General Chair for the Workshop RoboCity2030-DIH in Intelligent Ground Transportation Systems, Virtual Conference, May 2021.

·        2020. General Chair in the 21th Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF 2020), Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, November 2020.

·        2018. Organizing Committee in the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, October 2018.

·        2015. Annual Conference of Spanish Technology Transfer Offices (RedOTRI2015), General Chair, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 15-16 June 2015.

·        2014. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Organizing Committee. 18 –20 November, 2014, Madrid, Spain

·        2012. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Publication and exhibition Chair. Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 2012.

·        2012. IEEE IV Workshop on Perception in Robotics, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 2012. Co-organizer

·        2012. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV-WS), Publication Co-chair. Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 2012.

·        2007. IEEE Intelligent Signal Processing Symposium (WISP). Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 2007. Co-organizer

·        2007. IEEE WISP Special Session on Perception in Robotics, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 2007. Co-organizer

·        2002. Seminario Anual de Automática, Electrónica Industrial e Instrumentación (SAEEI). Alcalá de Henares, Spain,       September 2002. Co-organizer.

·        2000-2010. ALCABOT- HISPABOT Robot Competition Symposium. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. 2000-2010. Co-organizer.

 

PROGRAM COMMITTIES

·        2024. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the Seventh Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2024), Madrid, Spain, November, 2024.

·        2024. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Edmonton, Canada, September, 2024.

·        2024. Program Committee in the Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF 2024), Alicante, Spain, September 2024.

·        2024. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea.

·        2023. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2023.

·        2023. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, September, 2023.

·        2022. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS 2022), Online streaming, April, 2022.

·        2022. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Aachen, Germany, June, 2022.

·        2022. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Macau, China, October, 2022.

·        2022. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2022), Zaragoza, Spain, November, 2022.

·        2021. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems (ROBOVIS), Valleta, Malta, October, 2021.

·        2021. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Nagoya, Japan, July, 2021.

·        2021. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Indianapolis, IN, United States, September, 2021.

·        2020. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Las Vegas, USA, October, 2020.

·        2020. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Virtual conference, September, 2020.

·        2019. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Auckland, New Zealand 27-30 October, 2019.

·        2019. Program Committee in the 4th Iberian Robotics Conference, Porto, Portugal, 20-22 November, 2019.

·        2018. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Maui, Hawaii, USA. November 2018.

·        2018. National Advisory Committee in the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, October 2018.

·        2018. Program Committee in the 19th Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF 2018), Madrid, Spain, November 2018.

·        2017. International Program Committee in the 2nd edition of the Special Session on Autonomous Driving and Driving Assistance System (ADDAS), which is part of the ROBOT2017 Iberian conference, Seville, Spain, November 2017.

·        2017. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Yokohama, Japan, October 2017.

·        2016. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, November 2016.

·        2016. Program Committee in the RoboCity16: Open conference on future trends in robotics, Madrid, Spain, May 2016.

·        2015. IEEE ITSC2015, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, September 2015.

·        2014. IEEE ITSC2014, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Qingdao, Shandong, China, October 2014.

·        2013. Robot 2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 2013.

·        2013. IEEE ITSC2013, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2013.

·        2013. IEEE CIVTS2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems, Singapore, April 2013.

·        2012. IEEE ITSC2012, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Anchorage, AK, USA, September 2012.

·        2012. Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF). Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 2012.

·        2011. IEEE ITSC2011, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Washington DC, USA, September 2011.

·        2011. IEEE CIVTS2011, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems, Paris, France, April 2011.

·        2011. Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF). Albacete, Spain, September 2011.

·        2010. IEEE ITSC2010, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, September 2010.

·        2010. IEEE ITSC2010 Workshop on Emergent Cooperative Technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Madeira Island, Portugal, September 2010.

·        2010. Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF). Valencia, Spain, September 2010.

·        2009. IEEE CIVVS 2009, IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems, Nashville, TN, USA, April 2009.

·        2009. Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF). Cáceres, Spain, September 2009.

·        2008. Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF). Vigo, Spain, September 2008.

·        2007. Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF). Zaragoza, Spain, September 2007.

·        2007. IEEE Intelligent Signal Processing Symposium (WISP). Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 2007.

·        2006-2013. Workshops of Robocity2030. Two workshops per year about robotics technologies. Organizing by the Robocity network, which includes the best robotics institutions at the Madrid region, Spain. 2006-2013.

·        2002. Seminario Anual de Automática, Electrónica Industrial e Instrumentación (SAEEI). Alcalá de Henares, Spain, September 2002.

 

 KEYNOTE LECTURES

·        2023. Business excellence round table. Success story: Industrial doctorate at INDRA organized by Spanish Engineering Institute. March 2023.

·        2023. Keynote lecture entitled "Beyond supervised Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving”, at the Master in Computer Vision of the URJC, March 2023.

·        2022. Autonomous and connected vehicles Course. Invited conference “Human Factors and Social Aspects”. October-November, 2022, INSIA, Madrid, Spain.

·        2022. Keynote lecture entitled "Learning from synthetic data generated by CARLA simulator”, at the IV 2022 BSL Workshop: Beyond Supervised Learning, Aachen, Germany, June 2022.

·        2022. Keynote lecture entitled "Beyond Supervised Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving”, at the 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS 2022), April 2022.

·        2022. Keynote lecture entitled "Autonomous detection of electricity pylons and flaws in their structures through deep learning”, at the Workshop RoboCity2030-DIH in intelligent robotics in construction industry, Virtual Conference, April 2022.

·        2021. Autonomous and connected vehicles Course. Invited conference “Human Factors and Social Aspects”. June, 2021, INSIA, Madrid, Spain

·        2021. Keynote lecture entitled "Intelligent Transport: Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving" for the online workshop “Seeking the corridors of cooperation for EDIHs”, organized by the Centre for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence – EDIH of Cracow University of Technology. June 2021.

·        2021. Keynote lecture entitled "Perception for Autonomous Driving" for the IEEE Benelux chapter COM/VT, Virtual Talk, June 2021.

·        2021. Keynote lecture entitled "Perception for intelligent vehicles in urban environments" at the Workshop RoboCity2030-DIH in Intelligent Ground Transportation Systems, Virtual Conference, May 2021.

·        2019. Keynote lecture entitled "Robocity2030: Madrid Robotics Digital Innovation Hub" at the Robocity2030 Workshop on AI and Robotics. December 10, 2019. Madrid, Spain.

·        2019. “Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving” Keynote at II Jornadas Cátedra de Ingeniería Avanzada Escribano-UAH. November 18, 2019. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.

·        2019. “Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving” Keynote at IEEE 15th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing. September 5 - 7, 2019. Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

·        2019. Autonomous and connected vehicles Course. Invited conference “Human Factors and Social Aspects”. June, 2019, INSIA, Madrid, Spain

·        2018. Autonomous Driving demo in the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, October 2018. [Video]

·        2018. Plenary speaker at the VI Conference on Sustainable Mobility & Intelligent Vehicle: Smart Mobility. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain. September, 20th 2018. [Video: from -2:14:50 to -1:44:40]

·        2018. Autonomous and connected vehicles Course. Invited conference “Human Factors and Social Aspects”. May, 2018, INSIA, Madrid, Spain

·        2018. Automation Engineering Master. Invited classes “Human Driver Behaviours”. February, 2018, INSIA, Madrid, Spain

·        2017. Autonomous and connected vehicles Course. Invited conference “Human Factors and Social Aspects”. June, 2017, INSIA, Madrid, Spain

·        2016. Autonomous and connected vehicles Course. Invited conference “Human Factors and Social Aspects”. June, 2016, INSIA, Madrid, Spain

·        2015. Annual Iberian IEEE Student Branch Conference. Invited conference “DriveSafe: an App for Alerting Inattentive Drivers and Scoring Driving Behaviors”. April 23, 2015, EPS-UAH, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

·        2014. II GEINTRA Conference Series on Audio-Visual Signal Processing and Applications in Intelligent Spaces 2014. Invited conference “Some Challenges in ADAS based on computer vision”. June 18, 2014, EPS-UAH, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

·        2012. Workshop Robocity12. Robots for the citizens. Invited conference “Experiences in the launching of the spin-off Vision Safety Technologies”.June 7–8, 2012, ETSII-UPM, Madrid, Spain

·        2012. Master in Computer Vision. URJC. Invited conference “Advanced Driving Assistance System based on Computer Vision”. March 21, 2012, URJC, Móstoles, Spain

·        2012.VIII Vodafone Conference about Science and Technology Convergence. UAH. Invited conference “Localization and Navigation Assistance System for Visually Impaired People based on Vision Techniques” March 13, 2012, UAH, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

·        2007. Summer Course in Service Robotics. Invited conference “Localization and Navigation Techniques for Service Robotics”. July 2-6, 2007. UNED. Ávila. Spain

·        2007. Master in "Diseño para todos en tecnologías de la información y comunicación". Teacher of the subject "Tecnologías de la información, domótica, robótica y realidad virtual". Course 2006-07. EOI. Madrid. Spain.

·        2006. Master in "Diseño para todos y accesibilidad universal en las tecnologías de la información". Teacher of the subject "Tecnologías de la información, robótica". Course 2005-06. EOI. Madrid. Spain.

 

   OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

·        2023. International Referee for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in the field of Computer Science. 1st semester 2023.

·        2023. Evaluator of Industrial Doctorates grants of the Community of Madrid for the 2023 call in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). July 2023.

·        2023. Evaluator of the ELISE (European Network of AI Excellence Centres) 2nd Open Call (H2020 ICT48 project) for start-ups and SMEs. January-March 2023.

·        2023. Evaluator of Industrial Doctorates grants of the Community of Madrid for the 2020 call in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Tracking. January 2023.

·        2022. Evaluator of Industrial Doctorates grants of the Community of Madrid for the 2022 call in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). June 2022 – July 2022.

·        2022. Evaluator of the 1st Call for Pilots of the StairwAI project. EU-funded project targeting low-tech users with the goal of facilitating their engagement in the AI4EU platform. March-April 2022.

·        2022. Tracking of the 2019 call for Industrial Doctorates projects of the Community of Madrid in the ICT area. March 2022.

·        2021. Evaluator of the ELISE (European Network of AI Excellence Centres) 1st Open Call (H2020 ICT48 project) for start-ups and SMEs. June-July 2021.

·        2021. Evaluator of the 2021 call for Strategic Line projects in the topic of “Robots to Help People” funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. June-July 2021.

·        2021. Tracking of the 2018 call for Industrial Doctorates projects of the Community of Madrid in the ICT area. January 2021.

·        2020. Evaluator of the 2020 call for Industrial Doctorates projects of the Community of Madrid in the ICT area. October 2020.

·        2019. Member of the Technical Commission for the evaluation of the Spanish R+D+i projects, call 2019 in the Energy and Transportation subarea.

·        2019. Chair of the Regular Sessions on Human Factors in Automated and Assisted Driving (I), (II) in the 22st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2019).

·        2019. Director of the Advisory Committee for the Strategic Plan of the UAH. September 2019 – March 2022.

·        2019. Participation in the CARLA Autonomous Driving Challenge carried out last June 2019, reaching the fourth position in Track 3. Challenge sponsored by AWS, WAYMO, and Uber. 

·        Chair of the Regular Sessions on Environment Perception (II) and  Environment Perception (III) in the 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2018).

·        Member of the Selection Board to cover 140 scientific positions in the Spanish Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), (February 2019- April 2019) (Advanced Control Systems, Modelling and Perception profile).

·        Visit to the State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation at the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, June 2018. [photo1] [photo2]

·        Experts Panel Member for the Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2) Department Assessment of Research. Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg, Sweden. February 2018 – August 2018. [photo]

·        Coordinator of UAH Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation (UCC+i) belonging to the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). 2014 - 2018

·        Director of Knowledge Transfer at the University of Alcalá. 2014 – 2018

·        Visiting Scholar at the Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL). Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU). Xian (China) between August 2017-September 2017.

·        Deputy Inspector of the UAH services. 2012 – 2013

·        Visiting Scholar at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago from June 2013 to August 2013 to work with Raquel Urtasun

·        Expert Evaluator of RTD Project proposals at the Spanish CDTI. 2011 –

·        Head of the Robotics and e-Safety Research Group. 2010 -.

·        Member of the Research Advisory Council at the UAH. 2010 – 2014

·        Research Director of Vision Safety Technologies Ltd. 2009 - 2016

·        Co-coordinator of the Master program “Advanced Electronics Systems. Intelligent Systems” given by the Department of Electronics of the UAH. Courses 2007/08 to 2009/2010.

·        Expert Evaluator of RTD Project proposals at the Sistema Universitario de Castilla y León. Spain. 2008 –

·        Co-coordinator of the Doctorate program at the Department of Electronics of the UAH. Courses 2005/06 to 2009/10

·        Expert Evaluator of RTD Project proposals at the Spanish ANEP agency. 2006 –

·        Head of the Department of Electronics. 2004 - 2010

·        Member of the Research Committee at the UAH. 2004-2010

·        Member of working group that defined the strategic research area "Goods, Industrial Design and Production" of IV PRICIT of the Community of Madrid. 2003

 

 

 

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