List of Professors
Prof. Baltasar Beferull Lozano
PhD. Electrical Engineering (University of Southern California)
Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano
Prof. Baltasar Beferull Lozano received his MSc. in Physics from Universitat de València, Spain, in 1995, with Highest Honors (First in Class Graduation Award), and the MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in May 1999 and October 2002, respectively. At USC, he was a Research (Fellow) Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, the NSF Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), where he received several awards including the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award and the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. In October 2002, he joined the AudioVisual Communications Laboratory, Department of Communication Systems, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, as a Research Associate, and also the Swiss NSF National Competence Center in Research on mobile information & communication systems (NCCR-MICS), as a Senior Researcher. He brings extensive experience in teaching and research projects in both the US. (having worked for AT&T Shannon Labs, formerly AT&T Bell Labs) and Europe, including the coordination or participation in European projects from the 6th and 7th Framework Program (STREPs, NoEs, and Marie Curie grants). He spearheaded several Consolider-like Swiss national projects and supervised 4 PhD Theses in which some of the results have influenced several communication standards and led to publications that are currently used as part of the selected mandatory reading in various US and European top universities. In December 2005, he joined Universitat de València, where he is now an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular), the Head of the Group of Information and Communication Systems and the Coordinator of the Máster “Advanced Sciences of Modern Telecommunications”. At the national level, since 2006, he has coordinated or participated in more than 10 projects (public & private funding), including a Consolider project “Foundations and Methodologies for Future Communication and Sensor Networks”, the only Consolider project in the field of advanced wireless communications. He has co-authored over 70 technical publications, covering international journals of high impact and prestigious international conferences (acceptance rate < 15%), in addition to two US. patents. He has also given invited seminars and Máster & doctoral courses in more than 30 international institutions, as well as Plenary Talks, and has served on the TPC of (among others) the IEEE & ACM International Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing and IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing, apart from being an official reviewer for ICT projects supported by the European Commission and the US. NSF. He ranked first in the Ramón y Cajal Program of the Spanish Ministry of Science & Innovation in 2005. He received the 2006 IDEA Award in Novel Technologies, Fundación Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (Generalitat Valenciana). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Telefónica Chair (Cátedra Telefónica) holder at Universitat de València
Master Courses: Information Theory, Advanced
Optimization Techniques for Communications and Signal Processing,
Advanced Signal Processing for Communications
Research Topics: General Information & Signal
Processing, Distributed Communications and Signal Processing for
Wireless Networks, Information Theory and Coding, Wireless Sensor
Networks.
Contact Information:
Instituto de Robótica y Tecnologías de la Información
& Las Comunicaciones (IRTIC), Universidad de Valencia, C/
Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna (Valencia), SPAIN.
Tel: +34-96-3544464
Fax: +34-96-3543550
Email: Baltasar.Beferull@uv.es
URL: http://www.uv.es/gsic/beferull
Prof. Angel Lozano
PhD. Electrical Engineering (Stanford)
Angel Lozano is a Professor of Information and
Communication Technologies at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in
Barcelona, Spain, where he teaches and conducts research on wireless
communications as Head of the WiCom (Wireless Communications) Group.
Born in Manresa, Spain, Angel Lozano received the Telecommunications
Engineering degree from UPC (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya),
Spain, in 1992 and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and 1998, respectively.
Contemporarily, between 1996 and 1998, he also worked for Rockwell
Communication Systems (now Conexant Systems) in San Diego, USA. In 1999
he joined Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, now Alcatel-Lucent) in
Holmdel, USA, where he was a member of the Wireless Communications
Department until 2008. Between 2005 and 2008 he was also an Adjunct
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.
Dr. Lozano is a senior member of the IEEE since 1999. He served as
associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications between
1999 and 2009, has guest-edited various other IEEE and non-IEEE journal
special issues, and he is actively involved in committees and
conference organization tasks for the IEEE Communications Society. He
has further participated in standardization activities for 3GPP, 3GPP2,
IEEE 802.20 and the IETF. Dr. Lozano has authored over 80 technical
journal and conference papers, holds 15 patents, and has contributed to
several books. His papers have received two awards: the best paper at
the 2006 IEEE Int’l Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques &
Applications, and the 2009 Stephen O. Rice prize to the best paper
published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has held
visiting appointments at the University of Minnesota, at Stanford
University, and at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria in
Valparaiso, Chile.
Master Courses: Digital Communication Theory, Advanced Wireless Communications and Mobility
Contact Information:
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140 (2nd floor, Room 55.218)
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-5422581
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: angel.lozano@upf.edu
URL: http://www.tecn.upf.es/~alozano/
Prof. Ezio Biglieri
PhD. Electrical Engineering (Politecnico di Torino)
Ezio Biglieri was born in Aosta (Italy). He received his
formal training in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
(Italy), where he received his Dr. Engr. degree in 1967. He is
presently an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at University
of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and an emeritus professor at UPF
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in Barcelona, Spain. Previously he was a
Professor at the University of Napoli (Italy), at Politecnico di
Torino, and at UCLA. He has held visiting positions with the Department
of System Science, UCLA, the Mathematical Research Center, Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, the Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, the
Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, the Telecommunication
Department of The Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications,
Paris, France, the University of Sydney, Australia, the Yokohama
National University, Japan, the Electrical Engineering Department of
Princeton University, the University of South Australia, Adelaide, the
University of Melbourne, Australia, the Institute for Communications
Engineering, Munich Institute of Technology, Germany, the Institute for
Infocomm Research, National University of Singapore, the National
Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China, the University of
Cambridge, U.K., and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was elected three
times to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society,
and he served as its President in 1999. He is currently the
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and of
the Journal of Communications and Networks. Among other honors, in 2000
he received the IEEE Third-Millennium Medal and the IEEE Donald G.
Fink Prize Paper Award, in 2001 the IEEE Communications Society Edwin
Howard Armstrong Achievement Award and a Best Paper Award from WPMC'01,
Aalborg, Denmark, and in 2004 the Journal of Communications and
Networks Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Master Courses: Advanced Coding Techniques
Contact Information:
Email: ezio.biglieri@gmail.com
Prof. Enrique Navarro
PhD. Applied Physics (Universidad de Valencia)
Enrique A. Navarro received the Licenciado and the Ph.D.
degrees in physics from Universidad de Valencia, Spain, in 1988 and
1992, respectively. From 1988 to 1989, he was with Grupo de Mecánica
del Vuelo S.A. (GMV S.A.), Madrid, Spain. He joined the Department of
Applied Physics at Universidad de Valencia, in 1989 where he is now an
Associate Professor. In 1994 and 1995, he was with the Communications
Research Laboratory, McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Navarro was the
recipient of a 1993 NATO Fellowship. Professor Navarro teaches
communication systems, microwaves and antennas, and his current
research interests include all aspects of electromagnetics, numerical
methods in electromagnetics, antennas and propagation, as well as
environmental issues related with the atmosphere. Dr. Navarro has
authored co-authored over 100 technical/educational publications,
(books, journal papers, educational books, conference papers) and
served in the Editorial Board of several scientific/technical journals
as IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Microwave
and Guided Wave Letters, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and
Propagation, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Electronics Letters, IEE
Proceedings on Microwave Antennas and Propagation, ETRI Journal,
International Journal of Electronics, Numerical methods for partial
differential equations, Optics Express.
Master Courses: Antennas and RF Systems for Communications
Research Topics: Electromagnetics, microwaves, numerical
methods in electromagnetics, antennas and propagation, atmospheric
electricity.
Contact Information:
Dept. Física Aplicada, Universitat de València
C/. Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot (València), Spain
Tel: +34-96-354-4794
Fax: +34-96-354-3146
Email: Enrique.Navarro@uv.es
Prof. Santiago Felici Castell
PhD. Telecommunication Engineering (Universidad de Valencia)
Santiago Felici received the M.Sc. from the Universidad
Politécnica de Valencia and the Ph.D degree in Telecommunication
Engineering from Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 1993 and
1998, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the
School of Engineering, carrying out his research within the Group of
Information and Communication Systems at the Institute of Robotics and
of Information & Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universidad de
Valencia. His research focuses on various topics related to the general
field of networking, communication systems, and a combination of
multiresolution techniques for data transmission with quality of
service over best-effort networks. He is also a Cisco Systems
Certificated Instructor. He is the author of more than 25 technical
publications, including international journal and conference papers.
Master Courses: Design and implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks, Advanced Communication Networks and Protocols
Research Topics: Networking, Quality of Service, Wireless Sensor Networks.
Contact Information:
Instituto de Robótica y Tecnologías de la Información & Las Comunicaciones (IRTIC),
Universidad de Valencia, C/ Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna (Valencia), SPAIN.
Tel: +34-96-3543563
Fax: +34-96-3543550
Email: Santiago.felici@uv.es
URL: http://www.uv.es/felici
Prof. José M. Claver-Iborra
PhD. Computer Science (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Prof. José M. Claver-Iborra received his MSc. in Physics from Universidad de Valencia, Spain, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Valencia (UPV),
Spain, in Sept 1998. From October 1985 to September 1990, he was a
Staff Member with the Electronics and Computer Architecture Department,
University of Castilla-La Mancha
(UCLM), Albacete, Spain, where he was Head of Department between
September 1988 and October 1990. From October 1991 to January 2007, he
was with the Department of Computer Science, Jaume I University
(UJI), Castellón, Spain, where he was Secretary, Vice-Dean and Dean of
the ESTCE (Ecuela Superior de Tecnología y Ciencias Experimentales)
and Head of Department (from July 2006 to February 2007). In February
2007, he joined the 2007 the Department of Computer Science,
University of Valencia, where he is now an Associate Professor in the
field of Architecture and Technology of Computers. He has taught
undergraduate courses on Electronics, Digital Systems, Computer
Architecture and Embedded Systems, and graduate courses on High-Speed
Networks, Advanced Computer Architecture, and Parallel Computing. He
has also given seminars and Master & Doctoral courses at the
University of Valencia and the Jaume I University, in both cases with
National Excellence Mention. Dr. Claver has accumulated a solid
experience in the coordination of research projects (he has been main
researcher of two National projects (CICYT)). At the national level, he
has participated in several important (public & private funding)
projects, including a Consolider 2010 project “High-performance,
reliable architectures for data centers and Internet servers”. He
actually is with the Network and Virtual Environments Group at the
University of Valencia, and collaborates with the High Performance
Networks and Architecture group at UCLM, and theHigh Performance
Computing & Architectures (HPCA) Group and the Robotics Group at
UJI. Dr. Claver is the author or coauthor of more than 40 research
publications, which includes international journals of high impact and
prestigious international conferences. Moreover, he has been reviewer
of different international journals and conferences (Euro-Par, ISPA,
IROS, etc). He is a Member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, the
IEEE Communications Society and the Education Society.
Master Courses: Performance Improvement of Network Environments.
Research Topics: Computer Architecture, Parallel
Computing, High-Speed QoS Networks, Network Protocols, Embedded
Systems, Reconfigurable Computing and .
Contact Information:
Departament d’Informática, Universidad de Valencia, C/
Avda. Vicent Andrés Estellés, S/N, 46100, Burjassot (Valencia), Spain.
Tel: +34-96-3543738
Fax: +34-96-3544768
Email: Jose.Claver@uv.es
URL: http://www.uv.es/jclaver
Prof. Rosa M. Figueras i Ventura
PhD. Image and Signal Processing (EPFL)
Rosa M. Figueras i Ventura is an Assistant Professor of
Information and Communication Technologies at UPF (Universitat Pompeu
Fabra) in Barcelona, Spain, where he teaches and conducts research on
image and signal processing technologies and their application to the
medical field. Rosa M. received her Telecommunications Engineering
degree from UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Barcelona, in
2000, and Ph.D. degree in Image and Signal Processing from EPFL (École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland, in 2005. After a
brief period in Olivetti Engineering (Yverdon, Switzerland), in 2006,
she joined the Laboratory for Computational Vision at NYU (New York
University), USA, where she researched on statistical models of images
and their relation with the human visual system. In 2008, thanks to a
Juan de la Cierva funding, she joined UAB (Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona). After one year there, she moved to the Center for
Computational and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine (CISTIB), at
UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona), her current position. Dr.
Figueras i Ventura has authored over 12 technical journal and
conference papers, and she holds 1 patent.
Master Courses: Image Processing
Research Topics: Image and Signal Processing Technologies, Statistical models of images, Biomedical Imaging
Contact Information:
Center for Computational and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140 (1st floor, Room 55.119)
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-5421349
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: rosa.figueras@upf.edu
Prof. Azadeh Faridi
PhD Electrical Engineering (University of Maryland)
Azadeh Faridi received her B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in
1999. She completed her Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland,
College Park, under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Ephremides, in
2002 and 2007 respectively. In September 2007, she joined the
Department of Information and Communication Technologies at UPF
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra) as a visiting professor. Since 2008, she
also serves as coordinator of the weekly research seminars within the
Department of Information and Communication Technologies at UPF.
Research Topics: Communication networks, and Information
theory, with an emphasis on cross-layer optimization for applications
with hard delay constraints.
Master Courses: Research Seminars
Contact Information:
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140 (2nd floor, Room 55.216)
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-5421858
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: azadeh.faridi@upf.edu
URL: http://www.tecn.upf.es/~afaridi/
Prof. Alfonso Martínez
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
Dr. Alfonso Martínez graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 1997. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 2008. In 2011 he joined the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), where he carries out research on digital communications (optical communications and coding theory, including digital modulation and signal processing techniques) and information theory.
From 1998 to 2002 he worked at the research centre of the European Space Agency (ESTEC/ESA) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. He made research on coded modulation for satellite systems. From 2003 to 2008 he was a Research and Teaching Assistant at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where he was involved in research on optical communication theory. In September 2005 he visited the Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia. From August to December 2007 he was a visiting scientist at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. In the period 2008-2010 he was a Research Associate at CWI, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, working on the information-theoretic aspects of machine learning and the minimum description length principle. In 2011 he was a Research Associate with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. He has authored or co-authored 45 journal and conference publications, and 2 patents. He has been a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2011.
Master courses: Digital Communication Theory
Research Topics: Digital communications (optical communications and coding theory, including digital modulation and signal processing techniques) and information theory
Contact Information:
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: alfonso.martinez@upf.edu
Prof. Carmen Botella Mascarell
Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Dr. Carmen Botella received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree and the Ph.D. degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. In 2006, she was a visiting researcher in the Eurecom Institute (Sophia-Antipolis, France) under the supervision of Prof. David Gesbert. In 2009 and 2010, she was a Postdoctoral researcher in the Communications Systems and Information Theory group of Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden), where she was involved in teaching activities in the Master Program of Communications and in several national and European projects. Since February 2011, she is an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of the Universitat de València, carrying out her research within the Group of Information and Communication Systems at the Institute of Robotics and of Information & Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universitat de València. Dr. Carmen Botella has co-authored more than 25 papers in journals and international conferences, including several deliverables in European projects.
Master courses: Multimedia Systems and Communications
Research Topics: Multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output systems, coordination and cooperation in wireless systems, resource allocation in cellular systems.
Contact Information:
Instituto de Robótica y Tecnologías de la Información & Las Comunicaciones (IRTIC),
Universidad de Valencia, C/ Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna (Valencia), SPAIN.
Tel: +34-96-3543572
Fax: +34-96-3543550
Email: carmen.botella@uv.es
Prof. Gabriele Boccolini
Ph.D. in Information Engineering (University of Pisa)
Dr. Gabriele Boccolini received the master degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the PhD in information engineering from the University of Pisa in 2005 and 2009 respectively. His research interest are in the areas of digital communication, information theory and signal processing with special emphasis on wireless communications. During his PhD he worked on synchronization of continuous phase modulated (CPM) signals and their application to future Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSSa) in C-band. In 2009 he joined the ETIS (Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes) laboratory at ENSEA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'electronique et de ses Applications, Cergy-Pontoise, France) as a post-doc research fellow for two years. He made research on link adaptation for high-order non-binary coded transmissions and for coded UWB systems. Since january 2011 he is with the GSIC (Group of Information and Communication Systems) at University of Valencia as a Marie-Curie IEF (Intra-European Fellowship)researcher and his current research topics focus on cognitive radio and spectrum sensing.
Master courses: Digital Communication Theory, Advanced Wireless Communication and Advanced Signal Processing for Communication.
Research Topics: Wireless communications, information theory and signal processing.
Contact Information:
Instituto de Robótica y Tecnologías de la Información & Las Comunicaciones (IRTIC),
Universidad de Valencia, C/ Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna (Valencia), SPAIN.
Fax: +34-96-3543550
Email: gabriele.boccolini@uv.es
Prof. Juan José Pérez Solano
PhD. Computer Science (Universidad de Valencia)
Dr. Juan José Pérez Solano received the MSc in Physics
and PhD in Computer Science from Universidad de Valencia in 1994 and
2002, respectively. In 1996 he joined the Computer Science Department
of Universidad de Valencia, where he is currently Associate Professor.
His work has focused on power line communications based on
spread-spectrum modulations for data transmission in wired industrial
control systems. He has developed new specific ad-hoc medium access
control protocols for this kind of networks and interference excision
algorithms that were successfully applied to real power line
communications systems under adverse noisy conditions. His research
interests include multiresolution techniques and wavelet transforms
applied to spread spectrum communications, wireless data transmission
and wireless sensor networks. Dr Juan José Pérez Solano is co-author of
a book about Computer Architecture, with several international
editions and he has published more than 20 technical publications,
including international journal articles and international conference
papers.
Master Courses: Design and implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks
Research Topics: Multiresolution techniques and wavelet
transforms applied to spread spectrum communications, wireless data
transmission and wireless sensor networks.
Contact Information:
Instituto de Robótica y Tecnologías de la Información & Las Comunicaciones (IRTIC),
Universidad de Valencia, C/ Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna (Valencia), SPAIN.
Tel: +34-96-3543563
Fax: +34-96-3543550
Email: juan.j.perez@uv.es
URL: http://www.uv.es/jjperezs
Prof. Ignacio García-Fernández
PhD. Computer Science (Universidad de Valencia)
Dr. Ignacio García-Fernández received his MSc. in Mathematics from Universidad de Valencia, Spain, in 2000 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Universidad de Valencia,
in Feb 2004 and Feb 2009, respectively. He is also Researcher at
Instituto de Robótica y de las Tecnologías de la Información y las
Comunicaciones (IRTIC) at Universidad de Valencia. He has participated
in several research projects, with both public and prívate funding, and
published various scientific contributions in JCR Journals and
international conferences. He is a Member of the EUROGRAPHICS
Association
Master Courses: Stochastic Processes for Engineers.
Research Topics: Physically-Based Computer Animation & Simulation. Web-based multimedia applications.
Contact Information:
Instituto de Robótica y Tecnologías de la Información
& Las Comunicaciones (IRTIC), Universidad de Valencia, C/
Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna (Valencia), SPAIN.
Office: 0.1.7
Tel: +34-96-3543671
Fax: +34-96-3543550
Email: Ignacio.Garcia@uv.es
URL: http://robotica.uv.es/~ignacio
Prof. Hubie Chen
PhD. Computer Science (Cornell)
Hubie Chen is a Ramon y Cajal researcher at UPF
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in Barcelona, Spain. His research
interests include the computational complexity of constraint
satisfaction problems, and related algebraic and logical
issues. He studied at Stanford University (B.S., Mathematics) and
Cornell University (Ph.D., Computer Science). He has been a
visitor to such research centers as Ecole Polytechnique, Humboldt
Universitat zu Berlin, and University of Cambridge.
Master Courses: Computability and Complexity
Research Topics: Computational complexity of constraint satisfaction problems, related algebraic and logical issues.
Contact Information:
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-5422629
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: hubie.chen@upf.edu
URL: www.tecn.upf.es/~hchen/
Prof. Davinia Hernández-Leo
PhD. Telecommunications Engineering (Universidad de Valladolid)
Davinia Hernández-Leo is Lecturer at the Information and
Communications Technologies Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the
Director of the Unit for Teaching Quality and Innovation of the UPF
Polytechnic School, and the coordinator of the educational technologies
research line of the Interactive Technologies Group (GTI). Davinia was
previously (2003-2007) a member of the (GSIC/EMIC group)
multidisciplinary group and assistant teacher at the Department of
Signal Theory, Communications and Telematics Engineering of the
University of Valladolid, Spain, where she received the M.S. and the
Ph.D. degrees (European mention) in Telecommunications Engineering in
2003 and 2007, respectively. She was also a visiting Research Fellow
(2006) at the Educational Technology Expertise Centre of the OUNL. She
is member of the Spain SIGSE Chapter, an executive peer-reviewer of the
Educational Technology & Society journal, the IEEE Transactions on
Learning Technologies, etc. and has been honored with several awards,
such as a IEEE/ASEE New Faculty Fellowship recognizing dedication to
the practice of Engineering Education Frontiers in Education Conference
2006, the 2006-2007 European CSCL Award for Excellence in the field of
CSCL Technology and a Best Paper Award of the International Conference
In Advanced Learning Technologies 2004. Dra. Hernández-Leo has authored
over 45 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers and
holds an h-index of 7. Her academic interests include research methods
applied to ICT disciplines; and her research area is focused on
educational technologies, with an emphasis on Computer-Supported
Collaborative Learning, modeling techniques applied to education, and
learning technologies specifications and standards.
Master Courses: Research Methodology
Research Topics: Computer-Supported Collaborative
Learning, modeling techniques applied to education and learning
technologies specifications and standards
Contact Information:
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140 (4th floor, Room 55.408)
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-5421428
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: davinia.hernadez@upf.edu
URL: www.tecn.upf.edu/~daviniah
Prof. Rafael Martínez Durá
PhD. Computer Engineering (Universidad de Valencia)
Rafael J. Martínez is an Associate Professor of Computer
Engineering at Universidad de Valencia. He received a PhD on Computer
Engineering from Universidad de Valencia in 1997. He belongs to the
Instituto de Robótica y de Tecnologías de la Información y las
Comunicaciones and is the Head of the Simulation & Modelling
Laboratory (LSyM). He has an extensive experience both in management,
research activities and consulting. He has coordinated and participated
in more than 20 research projects, most of them related to simulation
activities and technology transfer to enterprises. He is the main
inventor of two patents related to harbour crane simulators and has
published more than 40 papers in several congresses and research
periodicals
Master Courses: 3D Multimedia on Internet and Mobile Networks
Research Topics: Computer graphics and simulation for training. Fault-Tolerant Computing and High Available Systems.
Contact Information:
Instituto de Robótica y Tecnologías de la Información
& Las Comunicaciones (IRTIC), Universidad de Valencia, C/
Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna (Valencia), SPAIN.
Tel: +34-96-3543564
Fax: +34-96-3543550
Email: Rafael.Martinez@uv.es
URL: http://www.uv.es/rmtnez
Prof. Boris Bellalta
PhD Information and Digital Communications (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Boris Bellalta received his MSc degree in
Telecommunications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
in 2002 and the Ph.D. in Information and Digital Communications from UPF
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in 2007. Since 2007 he has been a post-doc
researcher and a full-time visiting professor / lecturer at UPF.
Currently, he is a member of the NeTS research group at the Information
and Communications Technologies Department within UPF. His main
research interests are in the area of traffic engineering and wireless
communications, especially those fields related to QoS provision,
PHY/MAC cross-layer design and self-adaptive / reconfigurable wireless
networks.
Master Courses: Mobile Communication Networks and Services
Research Topics: Traffic engineering and wireless
communications, QoS provision, PHY/MAC cross-layer design,
self-adaptive / reconfigurable wireless networks.
Contact Information:
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140 (2nd floor, Room 55.224)
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-5422581
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: boris.bellalta@upf.edu
URL: http://www.tecn.upf.es/~bbellalt/
Prof. Miquel Oliver
PhD Telecommunication Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña)
Miquel Oliver is the head of the Networking Technologies
and Strategies (NeTS) research group at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
He got a degree in Telecommunications Engineering (1994, UPC), a
degree in Business Administration (2009, UOC) and a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering (1999, UPC). He held a postdoctoral position at the
Wireless Information Networks Laboratory (WINLAB) within Rutgers
University (N.J., USA). He has been involved in several research
projects related to wireless access network neutrality. His research
topics have been evolving from radio resource management for cellular
systems, quality of service in wireless data networks, IP mobility,
radio access protocols including wireless sensor networks and
distributed peer-to-peer protocols. ICT impact upon society as well as
business models for incoming technologies and networks have been also
researched during the last few years. Prof. Oliver has authored more
than 40 papers in journals and international conferences, two patents
and has been the director of five Ph.D. theses since 2006.
Master Courses: Mobile Communication Networks and Services
Research Topics: Radio resource management for cellular
systems, quality of service in wireless data networks, IP mobility,
radio access protocols, wireless sensor networks and distributed
peer-to-peer protocols
Contact Information:
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140 (2nd floor, Room 55.226)
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-5422910
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: miquel.oliver@upf.edu
Prof. Vicent Caselles
PhD Applied Mathematics (Universidad de Valencia)
Vicent Caselles is a Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu
Fabra) in Barcelona, Spain, where he teaches and conducts research on
wireless communications as head of the GPI (Image Processing) Group.
Vicent Caselles received the Licenciatura and Ph. D. degrees in
mathematics from Valencia University, Spain, in 1982 and 1985,
respectively. He received the ‘Distinció de la Generalitat per a la
recerca’ in 2002, the Ferran Sunyer and Balaguer prize in 2003, he was
invited to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006, and
received one of the three SIAM best paper awards in 2008. Research
interests.
Research Topics: Models and algorithms for image processing and to their mathematical analysis.
Master Courses: Image and Video Analysis, Data Analysis and Machine Learning
Contact Information:
Dept. of Information & Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
C/ Tànger 122-140 (4nd floor, Room 55.400)
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-5422421
Fax: +34-93-5422517
Email: vicent.caselles@upf.edu
Prof. Vicente López
PhD Computational Quantum Chemistry (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Vicente López received the Ph.D degree in computational quantum chemistry from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain, in 1981. From 1981 to 1983, he was a Research Fellow with the California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, and from 1984 to 1988, he was a Professor at the Department
of Chemical Physics, UAM. His research during those years was in
theoretical chemical physics and computational physics. In 1989, he
joined the Institute of Knowledge Engineering (IIC),
UAM, which is a research institute owned by UAM, IBM, and two other
major Spanish companies. At the IIC, he lead the neural network group
and became IIC technical director in 1993. At IIC, he was involved in
basic and applied research projects in real-time control, expert
systems, pattern recognition, and data mining. Later, he became Full
Professor of computer science at the Escuela Técnica Superior de
Informática, UAM. From 1996 to 2001, he developed an applied research
project for Grupo PRISA to create
R&D teams in the areas of electronic publishing, internet
communication, and interactive digital TV. Since 2001, he has been Full
Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, where he is the Director of the Chair Cátedra Telefónica de Social Media and Vicepresident of the Barcelona Media Centre d'Innovació
(an Innovation Center for the Media Industry). Since 1989, he has been
an active researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, neural
networks, optical computing, and information processing in natural
systems. He is author of more than 50 research articles.
Research Topics: Multimedia Systems and Communications,
Artificial intelligence, neural networks, information processing in
natural systems
Master Courses: Research Methodology
Contact Information:
Barcelona Media – Centro de Innovación
Avda. Diagonal 177, Planta 9,
08018, Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34-93-2381400
Fax: +34-93-3093188
Email: vicent.caselles@upf.edu
