Miguel Arevalillo is a Full Professor In Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He has gained recognition for 5 six-year quality research periods, one of them based on successfully established knowledge transfer partnerships. He has published 50 papers in journals indexed in JCR (24 of them in the first quartile -all of them since 2009- and 16 in the second). He has been the first author of 27 of these papers. Since 2008, he has also published over 20 papers indexed in categories A or B of the CORE conference ranking (top conferences in the computing field), and various others in conferences related to education. He has an h-index of 17 according to Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). We highlight the variety in the subject of his publications, which provides evidence of both his cross-disciplinary experience and his capacity to join existing research lines in the 3 universities he has worked for. He has received 1221 citations according to WoS, and 1510 according to Scopus.

Miguel Arevalillo has been the principal investigator in 7 research projects, including 4 from the national plan; and collaborated in 3 European ones, a CONSOLIDER, and more than 10 others at local, regional and national levels. In addition, he has built a large international network of contacts by collaborating on international research projects and participating in a large number of research stays in different countries (Scotland, France, England and Spain). He was a member of the University Research Board, representing the IT area, and is now a member of the ValgrAI (Valencian Graduate School Research Network Artificial Intelligence) initiative, a Regional project financed with 2 million euros to attract talent in AI and transfer knowledge to the industry in the Valencian region.

Regarding knowledge transfer, he worked in the private industry on unpaid leave from Liverpool John Moores University. During this period, he joint TISSAT (Valencia, Spain) and MEZZO NET (Majorca, Spain, as a part of the German company Media Service Group), gaining an industry vision that had a significant impact on his research. He has participated in several research contracts with companies, including the development of simulation engines for over 130.000 euros; and an agreement with EADS Astrium Gmbh, a subsidiary of Airbus SE, to allow them to integrate one of his algorithms in their optical simulator BEAMWARRIOR. He has also led very recent industry projects, including a contract with Leb Creative Society, SL for 139.774 euros to develop a multimodal system for emotion recognition; and collaborated with Cecotec SL through 3 industry stays financed with 120.000 euros, applying Natural Language Processing algorithms to improve their online customer service, Computer Vision methods to support the operation of the Conga cleaning robot and Deep Learning techniques to model user preferences. The impact of his research in industry is also supported by the wide use of his research results. For example, one of his unwrapping algorithms has received over 650 citations and has been adopted by well-known python libraries, such as scikit.

The applicant is the founder and coordinator of the research group 'Intelligent Systems and High Performance'', currently composed of 17 members and officially recognized by the Universitat de València. He has successfully supervised 8 PhD students (7 of them in the last 7 years), and currently supervises 2 more, both of them with full PhD funding gained on prestigious competitive national/regional calls. He is also the director of several post-doctoral contracts, all obtained in highly valued competitive national calls: 2 Ramon y Cajal and 1 Margarita Salas. He has supervised 3 MSc and 47 degree projects, all of them in official programs. All PhD candidates that completed the PhD under his supervision now work on permanent contracts for the University, are well-positioned in the public or private sectors or continue their research career under a post-doctoral contract.

In addition, he has served as a reviewer for important journals in both the computing and education fields, including Computer Applications for Engineering Education, Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied Soft Computing (among many others); and frequently participated as an evaluator and/or member of national and regional evaluation committees (Ministry of Science and Innovation and IVACE), evaluating more than 80 research projects.

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Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Engineering School ETSE-UV of the University of Valencia.

Degree in Physics (specialty of Electricity, Electronics and Computing) and PhD in Computer Engineering by the University of Valencia.

He has been the Dean of the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the Universitat de València ETSE-UV (2009-2015) and Vice-chancellor of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat de València (2002-2006).

He has participated in publications in books, articles in specialized journals and scientific-technical documents of Spanish and European research projects and has presented papers in dozens of scientific congresses in his field. Its current lines of work are databases and data science, learning management systems and computer systems for process management and quality.

He teaches, among other subjects, Database subjects in the Degree in Computer Engineering and in several masters degrees such as the Master in Data Science.

Full Professor of Architecture and Technology of Computers at the Department of Computer Science, in the School of Enginering ETSE-UV, of the University of Valencia. Graduate in Physics (MSc, speciality of Electricity, Electronics and Computer Science) by the University of Valencia and PhD in Computer Science (Program of Parallel and Distributed Computing) by the Technical University of Valencia. Delegate for the Digital University. Research in cloud computing and video coding, and previously in parallel & distributed computing (numerical methods, coding and transcoding of video HD, bioinformatics, ...),  reconfigurable computing (multimedia applications and the prototyping of routers for high speed and quality of service), and network  protocols in applications of real time and tele-operated systems. He is Senior member of the IEEE.

Degree in Physics (specializing in Electricity, Electronics and Computer Science) and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Valencia.

Research in driving simulation, virtual reality, augmented reality.

Tenured Associate Professor at the Universitat of València and international exchange coordinator for the Multimedia Engineering undergraduate degree. She completed her studies in Computer Science at the University of Valencia and her masters in Artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh (Scoltand, UK). She then continued to do a PhD at Heriot-Watt University (Scotland, UK) and a postdoc at Duke University (North Carolina, USA). She  joined  the  Department of Computer of Science at Universitat of Valencia  in 2006 where she has been lecturing a wide range of undergradute and postgraduate courses. Also, she has been the principal researcher of several National Spanish projects and her main research areas of interest are Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Patter Recognition for medical and remote sensing applications. Currently she is leading a national research project in collaboration with "Hospital La Fe", Valencia.

Hi! my name is Santiago Felici-Castell, I was born in Algemesí (Valencia). I completed my master's degree and my PhD in Telecommunication Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València in 1993 and 1998 respectively. I am currently a tenured assistance professor at the Universitat de València in the ETSE in the area of telematic engineering. My work focuses on computer networks, especially wireless sensor networks (Internet of Things), multimedia networks and software-defined networks on synchronisation and quality of service aspects, where I have published more than 43 papers in international conferences (two of them as best paper award) and more than 38 papers in international journals (28 of them with high impact, in high impact Journal Citation Report (JCR), Q1, Q2 with more than 800 cites). I am reviewer of several high impact journals and member of serveral internacional conferences. I have participated in 13 national, 3 European, 1 European Network of Excellence and 1 national competitive projects.  I have been principal investigator (PI) in 5 research projects (ELAS, Varimos I and II, Urbauramon, Eco4Ruppa). I collaborate with different international centres: from the pre-doctoral stage Cern (CH), USC (USA) and from the post-doctoral stage in UA (IT, DETI, Aveiro City Lab), UWS (Beyond 5G Hub, UK), UCE (Millenium P., UK), UCY(DECS, CY), UNAB (CO), UFS (BR) and UCA (DEI-LED, PY) and national centres UPCatalonia (SP), UPV, UMurcia (SP). 
I have supervised 2 doctoral theses (and a third one planned for 2023). I have also supervised more than 20 master's theses and 37 final projects and/or final degree projects. I have collaborated with private companies through 10 research and development contracts. I am a certified Cisco Systems instructor and coordinator of the Networking Academy of the University of Valencia. I have participated in several Teaching Innovation Projects and I have been director of the masters 'Advanced Sciences of Modern Telecommunications' and 'Routing, switching, troubleshooting and data optimisation', as well as course coordinator for the degree in Telematics, Erasmus, Final Degree Projects and Practicum.  I have been part of the PhD commission of the Information, Communication and Computing Technologies Programme until December 2020, I am an evaluator of the AQU Catalan Quality Agency, the Andalusian Agency and MINECO.

José Francisco García Calderaro has a degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1995). He currently works as a Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (ETSE-UVEG). He is a member of the LISITT research group in the Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC) since 1996. His research areas focus on the fields of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Information Systems and MultiAgent Systems. In these areas, he has participated in national and international research projects (SERTI, ARTS, EASYWAY ...), where he has participated with different roles: technical coordinator, consultant and developer. He is a founding partner of ESAM Technology Company Ltd., a spin off of the University of Valencia formed at the end of 2007.

Miguel García-Pineda is a Telecommunication Engineer and a Master's Degree in Technologies, Systems and Communications Networks from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). His doctoral thesis was held at the UPV and at the Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA). In March of 2013 he defended his PhD. thesis obtaining the title of PhD. in telecommunications by the UPV and the title of PhD. in computer science by the UHA. His PhD. thesis obtained international mention and cum laude qualification, as well as the Outstanding Doctorate Award of the UPV. During his doctoral phase, he held two stays in the group GRTC - IUT Colmar, UHA of 3 and 4 months respectively, after having defended the thesis he did 2 postdoctoral stays of 3 months in the Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior in Portugal, one of them with a José Castillejo grant in 2016.

In 2013, he joined the Compute Science Department of the Universitat de València (UV) as professor where he carries out his teaching and researching tasks in the area of ​​Telematics Engineering. As a researcher, M. García has focused his efforts in two fields. On the one hand, sensor networks, IoT and wireless communications and on the other hand the distribution of multimedia content over IP networks. As a result of his work as a researcher, his results have been published in international journals, book chapters and international conferences.

He has participated as a full-time and/or part-time researcher in 10 competitive R+D+i projects. Highlighting his presence in 3 national and 4 regional projects. Due to these results M. García has obtained the accreditations of AD, CD and TU by ANECA.

M. García is CISCO instructor of the Cisco Academy - University of Valencia. In addition, he is a member of the group "Research Group in Collaborative, Cooperative and Competitive Teaching Methodologies" where he has participated in several projects of educational innovation. Finally, M. García has been a member of the organizing committee of several international conferences, he is an associate editor of several international journals and he participates as a reviewer in several indexed journals and he is a member of the technical program committee of several international conferences.

Ingeniera Informática y Doctora por la Universitat Politècnica de València en 2013. Sus temas de investigación se centran en el desarrollo software dirigido por modelos, el modelado de la interacción hombre-máquina, los sistemas auto-adaptativos y la integración del humano con los sistemas autónomos. Ha participado en más de 15 proyectos de investigación entre convocatorias nacionales y europeas. También es miembro del Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software de la Universitat Politècnica de València.

Dr. Jesús Gimeno Sancho is a lecturer of Computer Graphics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Valencia (Spain) and a senior researcher of the Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technology (IRTIC). He received his master degree in Computer Science (2008) and a diploma degree in Telecommunications (2009) from the University of Valencia. His final thesis work was awarded with the “Best thesis of the year award” by the Rotary Club, for the development of a whole body motion capture system inside the CAVE virtual reality system, so a user would be able to see his virtual reflection in a virtual mirror. During his pre-doctoral stage, he was granted with a 4-years research grant by the spanish government, to research the application of augmented reality as a testing tool for exoskeletons prototypes. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Valencia (2016), with a dissertation entitled “Contributions to the Authoring of Augmented Reality Contents for Education, Industry and Construction Sectors”. Dr. Gimeno was a research fellow at two remarkable research centres in AR-VR fields, the Augmented Reality Group at Bauhaus Universitat (Weimar, Germany, 2008) and at VRAC Center at Iowa State University (Ames IO, USA, 2010).

His research interests include primarily augmented reality and virtual reality, but also motion capture, real time simulation, advanced user interfaces and mobile computing. He has developed his career as academical researcher and professor, but also as a researcher in a great number of projects related to his area of expertise. He is author of 40+ scientific publications including international conferences, high impact journals and chapters within books. Important topics related to virtual and augmented reality are covered in these publications, for example: authoring, collaborative systems, development of new tracking systems and user interfaces, etc. His article “An occlusion-aware AR authoring tool for assembly and repair tasks”, was awarded with the best paper prize at the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP / VISIGRAPP, 2012). In this paper is proved how to improve the authoring process of augmented reality contents using a depth sensor, as a result the number of errors decrease while increase the precision of the virtual information position. Dr. Gimeno has also collaborated in more than 60 projects since 2006, with funding both from Spanish or European government an also from private companies. During the development of these projects, primarily related to VR and AR, he has collaborated with many different Research Centres from Europe and US, but also with important international companies. Among other projects, in the early stages of augmented reality, 2007-2010, he designed augmented reality prototypes for the Orange company. He collaborated with Dragados (ACS Group) and Leica Geosystems (Hexagon Group), developing new tools involving augmented and virtual reality to improve the construction management process (2010-2016). From 2014 to 2017 he collaborated with FORD company to improve the industrial processes by the application of augmented reality. In the last years, several collaborations have been performed with hospitals, related to the robotic surgery topic and the application of virtual and augmented reality in the pre-operative phase.

Vice Dean and Associate Professor of the School of Engineering at the University of Valencia (Excellence in Education Award) and a Research Fellow of the Laboratory for Agent Based Social Simulation (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) at the Italian National Research Council. Francisco Grimaldo received his PhD (Doctoral Dissertation Award), MSc and BSc in Computer Science from the University of Valencia, from where he also received his BSc in Telecommunications. His main research interests are agent-based modelling/simulation, machine learning and data analysis/visualization. He is Director of the Capgemini-UV Chair in innovation in software development and Vice Chair of the PEERE: New Frontiers of Peer Review COST Action. He is also member of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence and of the Association for the study of Socio Technical Complex Systems.

Juan José Martínez Durá is B.S. (1989) and PhD in Physics (1995) from the University of Valencia. Currently, he works as Associate Professor of the University of the Computer Science Department and the School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV). He is the head of the LISITT research group belonging to the Institute of Robotics and Information Technology and Communications (IRTIC), an institute of which he has been its director and secretary on several occasions. His research areas focus on the fields of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Information Systems, Software Engineering and Project Management. In these areas, he has participated in numerous national and international research projects (CARPLUS, VERA, SERTI, ARTS, ...), since 1990. In these projects, he assumed different roles: main researcher, technical coordinator, consultant and developer. Furthermore, he is co-author of more than 50 research publications. He is currently president and founding partner of ESAM Technology Company Ltd., spin off of the University of Valencia formed at the end of 2007.

I received the Bachelor degree in physics with the Universitat de Valencia. and the Ph. D. degreen in Computer Science from University of Valencia in 2014.

My research interests are the use of machine learning techniques applied to graphics and  behavioral simulation. I am specially interested in the use of reinforcement learning techniques  in  multiagent systems where the agents' interactions can create emergent behaviors.

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.

Pedro Morillo received the M.S. degree (1998) in Computer Engineering from the University of Valencia (Spain) and the Ph.D. (2004), from the same university, with a dissertation about "Improving the Performance in Distributed Virtual Environments", receiving the Doctoral School PhD Extraordinary Award. Currently, Dr. Morillo is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Valencia (Spain). Furthermore, his research addresses distributed VR/AR environments systems, advanced human-system interfaces, and the Multimodal Man-machine Interface (MMI) for telemedicine and industrial applications.

He served also as Visiting Scientist at Iowa State University (Ames, IA, USA) in 2004, University of Louisiana (Lafayette, LA, USA) in 2006, CAU Chung-Ang University University (Seoul, Korea) in 2009 and University of Arkansas (Little Rock, AR, USA) in 2017, where he maintains a research affiliation.

From 2015 to the present, he holds different university positions related to the promotion and management of studies, as well as the institutional online strategy.

Enrique A. Navarro-Camba has a degree in Physics and a PhD in Physics from the University of Valencia, in 1988 and 1992 respectively, directed by D. Vicente Such Belenguer, Professor of Applied Physics.  From August 1988 to January 1989 he worked at Grupo de Mecánica del Vuelo S.A. (GMV S.A., Madrid).  He joined the University of Valencia in 1989, where he worked on R+D projects for the University of Valencia and Radiación y Microondas S.A. (RYMSA). He was a scholarship holder of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Ministry of Education and Science. He has been an assistant professor in 1991, associate professor in 1994, associate professor in 1997, and professor in 2010.

He was awarded a grant by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and worked at the Communications Research Laboratory at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) in 1994 and 1995, where he improved the development of the non-orthogonal-FDTD (Finite Difference Time Domain) technique. He worked on the analysis of passive devices for beam-forming networks (Spar-Aerospace, Quebec) and planar technology antennas (RIM-Blackberry, Waterloo).

At the University of Valencia Professor Navarro teaches subjects related to electromagnetism, electromagnetic waves, microwaves, antennas and advanced communications. He teaches undergraduate, doctoral, graduate and master's courses at the Faculty of Physics, Faculty of Chemistry and School of Engineering. He has served on several committees at the University of Valencia, and his teaching contributed mainly to the University of Valencia's Telecommunications degrees, the Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, and the Inter-University Master's Degree (University of Valencia - Pompeu Fabra University) Advanced Sciences of Modern Telecommunications. 

In 1993 he joined the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory, and later on all the IEEE and IEE (now IET) journals on antennas, microwaves and propagation. Over the years he served on the Editorial Board of the world's most prestigious journals in Electromagnetism, Communications and Geoelectromagnetism: 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, IGARS, PIERS, Electronics Letters, IEE Proceedings on Microwave Antennas and Propagation (IET-MAP), Optics Express, ETRI Journal, International Journal of Electronics, Bioelectromagnetics,... Reviews projects from NASA and the United States Department of Energy (DOE).

He worked in more than 27 competitive research projects of national level, of the Junta de Andalucía, and Generalitat Valenciana, collaborating within the research group of Professor Juan A. Morente of the University of Granada and the Austrian Space Agency.

At the University of Valencia he is in charge of the antenna measurement system, Anechoic Chamber, a large installation covering 5m x 5m x 8m, with near-field measurement and near-to-far-field transformation. He also maintains the WWLLN-Valencia (World Wide Lightning Location Network) measurement station that records electrical activity of atmospheric origin at a global level, in collaboration with Prof. Holzworth of the University of Washington. 

Dr. Navarro's research interests focus on all aspects of electromagnetism, computational electromagnetism, electromagnetic waves, antennas and their measurement.

He is Guest Editor of the MDPI Electronics Journal:

 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/antenna_propagation

With impact factor 2.412, ranking as Q2, according to the JCR report 2020.

Juan M. Orduña received the MS in computer engineering from the Technical University of Valencia, Spain, in 1990. He worked at Telefónica de España, Manpel Electrónica, S.A. and at the Technical University of Valencia as a computer engineeer. He received the PhD. in computer engineering from the University of Valencia in 1998. His research has been developed inside the ACCA team (http://www.acca-group.info). Currently, he is a lecturer profesor in the Department of Informatics, at the University of Valencia, SPAIN, where he leads the GREV research group (http://grev.uv.es). He is member of the HiPEAC network of excellence (http://www.hipeac.net/), and his research is currently supported by the Spanish MEC and the European Commission through several projects. Dr. Orduna served as a member of the Program Committee in different conferences and workshops (ICPP, Europar, VR, ICPADS, etc.) as well as a reviewer for scholarly journals like Parallel Computing, IEEE TPDS, JNCA, or FGCS. He has published papers about his research in a number of high impact international journals and conferences.

Dr Cristina Portalés is a Ramón y Cajal post-doc fellow at the Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technology (IRTIC) at Universitat de València (Spain), where she currently works as full PhD senior researcher, being the Technical Manager of the H2020-SILKNOW project (SC6-CULT-COOP-09). She is also professor of Data Visualization at the School of Engineering, at the same university. She had formerly graduated with a double degree: Engineer in Geodesy and Cartography from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and MSc in Surveying and Geoinformation from the Technische Universität Wien (Austria). She was a research fellow at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Vienna, 1999-2002), a PhD research fellow at the Mixed Reality Laboratory of the University of Nottingham (UK, 2005) and at the Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre of the Nanyang University of Singapore (2006). She carried out her PhD. at the Fine Arts School of the UPV, with the title “Augmented Reality Multimedia Environments in the Arts Field”, which received an outstanding award by the UPV. First woman receiving the EH Thompson Award (best paper), given by the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (2010). Author of +90 scientific publications. S&T program committee of diverse international conferences (e.g. ACM SIGCHI ACE, GECCO, ISMAR). She is Deputy Editor of the scientific journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI) (Scopus Indexed). Her research interests are focused on computer vision, augmented reality and digital Cultural Heritage. She has a strong interdisciplinary profile and has special interest in the emerging collaborative work between ICT and SSH researchers.

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Dr. Verónica Romero is assitant professor at Universitat de València. She received the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de València in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the same university in 2010. In 2005 she joined the PRHLT research center of the UPV where she has been working in several national and European projects on Pattern Recognition and Handwritten Text Recognition. Her current fields of interest include pattern recognition, multimodal interaction, natural language processing and applications to handwritten text recognition and speech recognition.  Verónica Romero has collaborated in more than 15 research proyects from 2005. She has published more than 70 papers in journals, conference proceedings and books

I obtained my undergraduate and M.Sc degree in Computer Science from Universitat de Valencia in 2002. Following, I obtained a B.S in Telecommunication engineering and the Certifications CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate) and CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) at the Valencia Robotics Institute. I obtained a PhD on Computer Sciences at Universitat de Valencia in 2006. 

My PhD studies at Universitat de Valencia aimed at understanding the underlying mechanisms that govern important sub-cellular processes such as the exocytosis and endocytosis. My training and research was partly carried out at Derek Toomre group (CINEMA Lab) at Yale University (US).

As a post-doctoral fellow (Juan de la Cierva), I joined the Group for Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine (CISTIB) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra . There, I turned my research to the phylosophy of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH). In particular, I focused on modeling and simulation in cardiology with the goal of modeling patho-physiology of the heart. Afterwards, I moved to the Bioelectronic group (GBIO) at I3BH Institute, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, where I started modeling the human torso in order to study the effects of arrythmias in the surface ECG.

Main work and research topics:

1.- Related to telematic systems applied to traffic and transport (ITS Intelligent Transport Systems)

Working through contracts or projects with the Spanish General Directorate of Traffic, the Ministry of Transports and the Basque Government on European projects that have included topics such as RDS-TMC and DATEX, and European coordination platforms for ITS implementation such as EasyWay, EUEIP, Atlantic Arc, ARTS, SERTI mainly from the CEF European funding line.

R& D projects evaluator from the European IV Framework Programme and involved in Spanish and European standardisation bodies (AEN/CTN 159 and CEN/TC278).

2.- Related to the privacy and data protection, and computer & network security

Working through different organizations on issues related to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and the ENS (Spanish National Security Scheme) in addition to forensic analysis and computer and networks auditing.

Esther de Ves  received the M.S. degree
in Physiscs and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
Valencia in 1993 and 1999, respectively. Since 1994 she has been within
the Department of Computer Science from the University of Valencia where
she is an Assistant Professor. Her current interests are iin data mining, multimedia databases retrieval and big data.