Baltasar Beferull-Lozano received his M.Sc. in Physics from Universidad
de Valencia, Spain, in
1995, with Highest Honors (First in Class Graduation Award, Premio
Extraordinario), and the
M.Sc. 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 Integrated Media Systems Center
(IMSC), a NSF Engineering Research Center, and the Signal and Image Processing Institute
(SIPI),
where he received several awards including the
Best Ph.D. Thesis paper Award and the Outstanding Academic Achievement
Award. He was awarded a National Doctoral
(4-years) Fellowship from the Ministry of Education of Spain for
his Ph.D. studies. He has also worked for AT&T
Shannon
Laboratories (formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories), Information
Sciences Center, Florham Park, NJ. 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 National Competence Center in
Research on mobile information and communication systems, a Swiss
NSF Research Center, as a Senior Researcher, where he spent around
three years. In November 2005, he joined Universidad
de Valencia, where he is now an Associate Professor (Profesor
Titular de Universidad) and the Head of
the Group of Information
and Communication Systems. Dr. Beferull-Lozano ranked first in the
Ramón y Cajal Program, a National program of the Spanish
Ministry of Science and Technology for promoting outstanding young
investigators. He has been serving on the Technical
Program
Committee during several years of (among others) the IEEE & ACM
International
Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing and
IEEE International
Conference on Image Processing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and
holds the Telefónica
Chair (Cátedra Telefónica).
His research interests include: