PI-Invest Cont Ramon y Cajal
Department: Computer Science
Mario Montagud received a BsC in Telecommunications Engineering in 2011, an MsC degree in “Telecommunication Technologies, Systems and Networks” in 2012 and a PhD degree in Telecommunications (Cum Laude Distinction) in 2015, all of them at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). During his PhD degree and after completing it, he did 3 research stays (accumulating 18 months) at CWI (The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands). He also has experience as a postdoc researcher at UPV.
His topics of interest include Computer Networks, Synchronization, Interactive and Immersive Media, HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) and QoE (Quality of Experience). Mario is (co-) author of over 60 scientific and teaching publications, and has contributed to standardization within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). He is member of the Technical Committee of several international conferences (including ACM MM, MMSYS, TVX...), co-organizer of the international MediaSync Workshop series and of ACM MMSYS 2018 conference, as well as member of the Editorial Board of international journals, including Information Director (EiC Team) of ACM SIGMM Records. He is also Lead Editor of “MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization” (Ed. Springer) and Communication Ambassador of ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction).
Since January 2018, he is a part-time Professor at the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV), in subjects related to multimedia communications and services.