Fitxa persona

Xaro Benavent Garcia holds a degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de València and a PhD in Computer Science from the Universitat de València. Since 2001, she has been an Associate Professor at the Universitat de València, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. Her research has focused on Robotics, Image Processing, and the development of Artificial Intelligence algorithms. She has been awarded three research performance periods (sexenios), has six Q1 publications, and fifteen JCR-indexed publications.

Throughout her career, she has completed research stays at public universities in cities such as Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Iowa (USA), Carlow (Ireland), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Madrid. She is currently participating in the European Smart Cities project CITCOM.

In the field of science outreach, she is co-founder and Principal Investigator of the international summer school “Challenges in Data Science: Big Data, Biostatistics, Artificial Intelligence and Communications”, which has now held eight editions. She is also co-founder and coordinator of the Girls4STEM project, which promotes STEM careers by highlighting female role models for pre-university students.

In her teaching activity, she has delivered courses related to programming and Image Processing, applying active learning methodologies and continuously adapting to different teaching approaches that foster student motivation and support the development of their knowledge and skills.

Regarding university academic management, she serves as the Mobility Coordinator of the ETSE and Mobility Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, and responsable of the EntreIguals mentoring program of the ETSE, where she has contributed to strengthening and promoting student mobility within the school since 2013.