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Joaquin Torres-Sospedra is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Valencia under the GEN-T (CIDEGENT) program. He joined Valencia after two years at the Universidade do Minho (Guimarães, Portugal) under the Individual Fellowship program of the H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (H2020-MSCA-IF). His research interests focus on: machine learning, pattern recognition, indoor positioning & navigation, robotics, and interoperability. He completed his doctoral thesis in the Neural Networks and Soft Computing group (2003-2010) with a training grant funded by the Universitat Jaume I. His work focused on the development of classification systems based on "ensembles" and their efficient combination. In 2010-2012 he worked in other research groups applying his knowledge in other contexts and projects: Robotic Intelligence Lab (2010-2011) and Knowledge Engineering Group (2012). In May 2013, he joined the Geospatial Technologies Research Group of the Universitat Jaume I, where he led R&D projects related to indoor positioning systems (2013-2019). From January 2020 to August 2021, he was technical director and sole administrator at the company "UBIK Geospatial Solutions S.L.", leading the line of research in indoor positioning and navigation and managing all its projects. In the 2020 call, the project proposed by Joaquín, ORIENTATE, obtained the maximum score (100 points) in the prestigious H2020-MSCA-IF call. In recent months, he has participated in project proposals for the Portuguese FCT (IC&DT), the Spanish MICINN, and Horizon Europe (HORIZON-RIA & Doctoral Networks). Currently, he is the PI of three projects: POSITIONATE (GEN-T, Generalitat Valenciana), ROBOSAT (PCI2025-1, AEI), and CHASER (CHISTERA, ERA-NETWORKS).

He collaborates with various national research groups working on positioning, localization and navigation -Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), University of Alcalá and University of Extremadura- and international -University of Minho (Portugal), Centro de Computaçao Gráfica (Portugal), Tampere University (Finland), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy), University of Antwerpen (Belgium), University of Jyväskylä (Finland), Universite Gustav Eiffel (France), ETHZ (Switzerland), AALTO University (Finland), INRIA (France), among others. Some of these collaborations have been formalized by the Spanish networks of excellence REPNIN and REPNIN+, by the Erasmus+ program, and by the European networks GEO-C and A-WEAR (H2020-MSCA-EJD). It should be noted that the collaboration not only includes research groups, but also R&D&I centers with the aim of transferring and commercializing technological developments. He has been a co-author of 78 publications in journals (41 Q1, 16 Q2), 144 publications in conferences, and 3 book chapters, many of them the result of collaboration with other research groups. He has co-edited the book 'Using Geographical and Fingerprinting Data to create Systems for Indoor Positioning and Indoor/Outdoor Navigation: Challenges, Experiences and Technology Roadmap' for Elsevier. Since 2013, the impact of his publications has grown significantly, with ~6700 citations (h-index:38; I10:103) in Google Scholar, being one of the leading European authors in "Indoor Localization" according to Scopus.

He has served as a program committee and/or reviewer for various conferences such as "International Conference on Intelligent Computing", "International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)", "International Joint Conference on Neural Networks" or "International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)" where he has been a member of the Steering Committee since 2020. He is the co-organizer of the annual international competition developed at the IPIN congress since 2015. He has been a co-organizer of the IPIN conferences in Lloret de Mar (2021), Nuremberg (2023), and Tampere (2025); and ICL-GNSS 2020-21-22 in Tampere and ICL-GNSS 2023 in Castellón. He has been part of 13 doctoral thesis juries (2 of them as president) and has successfully supervised 14 undergraduate students, 44 Master's students, and 7 Doctoral students. He is currently co-supervising 4 undergraduate, 7 master's, and 6 PhD students.

Finally, Joaquín has co-edited several Special Issues, reviewed 500+ magazine articles (see profile on Publons), and handled over 5000 journal manuscripts as editor. Currently, he is Senior Editor in the prestigious "Expert Systems with Applications" (Elsevier) and in "IEEE Journal on Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation". Complete CV at: http://jtorr.es