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.

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 of the Principal for the Digital University. Coordinator of the UV-Tirant node of the ICTS Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES). 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.

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.

I am an Assistant Professor and member of the LAIA-UV (Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Applications) research group at the University of Valencia. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Valencia in 2022. My research is mainly focused on the study of the editorial and peer review processes in scientific publications, the development of tools to assess the quality of those processes and AI applications.

Member of the development team of the internal quality management tools, SAIC and DOCENTIA of the University of Valencia.

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.

Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science (Excellence in Education Award), head of the LAIA-UV research group at the University of Valencia and 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 applied artificial intelligence, web engineering and data analysis/visualization. He is Director of the Capgemini-UV Chair in innovation in software development and a board member of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence.

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.

Enrique A. Navarro-Camba has a degree in Physics (1988) and a PhD in Physics from the Universitat de València (1992), his Thesis supervisor was 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 in R&D projects of the University in cooperation with Radiación & Microondas S.A. (RYMSA). He received scholarships from the Valencian Government and the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain. He was assistant professor in 1991, contracted professor in 1994, associated professor in 1997, and full professor in 2010.

He worked at the Communications Research Laboratory of McMaster University (ON, Canada) in 1994 and 1995, where he improved the non-orthogonal-FDTD (Finite Difference Time Domain) technique. He worked on the analysis of passive devices for beamforming networks (Spar-Aerospace, Quebec) and planar antennas (RIM-Blackberry, Waterloo).

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

In 1993 he joined the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory & Techniques, 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, Microwaves, Antennas, 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, Scientific Reports... Reviews projects from NASA and the United States Department of Energy (DOE).

He worked in more than 30 competitive research projects of Spanish Government, Andalucia Government, and Valencian Goverment, in cooperation with the research team 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 planetary level, covering the western Mediterranean, in collaboration with Prof. Robert Holzworth of the University of Washington.

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

K. L. Shlager and J. B. Schneider, "A selective survey of the finite-difference time-domain literature," in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 39-57, Aug. 1995, doi: 10.1109/74.414731.

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.

Dr. José Vicente Riera is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Valencia (UV). His research is mainly conducted at the Robotics Institute and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC) at UV. He earned his degree in Computer Engineering (2009) and Technical Engineering in Telecommunications, specializing in Telematics (2009), pursuing both degrees simultaneously. In 2011, after benefiting from various collaboration scholarships (Ministry and UV), he completed the Master's in Advanced Computing and Intelligent Systems (2011) and began his research career as a Research Training Fellow. He received his PhD in Information, Communications, and Computing Technologies from UV (2023).

Affiliated with the ARTEC research group, his scientific interests revolve around computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, simulation, and motion platforms. He has been a member of the research team in seven competitive projects (H2020, CENIT-CDTI, HE, or RETOS, among others), a collaborating researcher in 10 ERASMUS+ projects, and has extensive experience with 77 contracts under Article 83, demonstrating his professional focus on applied research and the transfer of his results to society. He has numerous publications in scientific journals, book chapters, and conference contributions. Additionally, he is the author of several patents and intellectual properties, some of which are being exploited. His contributions are centered on motion generation systems for simulators and the field of augmented reality. He is also an IEEE Senior Member. 

Sandra Roger received the degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2007, a Master's degree in Telecommunication Technologies, Systems and Communication Networks in 2008 and a PhD in Telecommunications in 2012, all of them from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. Her Master's thesis was awarded by the Telefonica Chair of the UPV and her Ph.D. dissertation received the second prize of the Algemesi Best Thesis Award. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a PhD grant holder of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the Young Faculty Training program FPU. In 2009 and 2010, she was a guest researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications of the Vienna University of Technology (Vienna, Austria), where she worked on several topics related to MIMO wireless communications. From 2012 to 2018, as Senior Researcher at the Mobile Communications group of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM-UPV), she was been involved in high relevance EU projects as METIS (Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society) and METIS-II, and research contracts with the companies Nokia Bell-Labs (Stuttgart) and Huawei GRC (Munich). In 2016, her research group was awarded a Merit Medal to young researchers by the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. Between 2019 and 2023 she was a Ramon y Cajal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Computer Science Department of the Universitat de València, where she is currently Associate Professor. Her main research interests are in the field of MIMO wireless systems, 5G/6G and vehicular communications.

Computer Engineer and PhD from the University of Valencia, she works as Professor at the Computer Science Department of the School of Engineering (ETSE-UV), where she was the director between 2015 and 2021, being the first woman to access the direction of this department.

Between 2022 and 2023 she was Director of the Women and Science Unit in the Ministry of Science, Innovation & Universities, and between 2022 and 2023 Territorial Director at the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society.

Her career is divided into three main research lines: 1. Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics, 2. Software Engineering and 3. Digital Gender Gap. These lines culminated in the creation of the research group TADeSP (Advanced Techniques for Software Development centered on the Person) that works works on various interrelated and complementary lines of research, which share the common objective of analyzing the aspects that intervene in the relationship of the person who interacts with the software to be developed. Always taking into account the gender perspective and the diversity of the people who will use the applications, with the ultimate objective of providing advances in software quality from the point of view of human sight.

She has been responsible for STEM-UV within the Office of the Vice President for Equality, Diversity and Sustainability of the UV, Director of the UV-GVA Chair for the Digital Gender Gap and coordinator of the Girls4STEM project, aimed at promoting STEM vocations, especially among girls. In 2022, she received the Sapiens Academic Award from the Official College of Computer Engineering of the Valencian Community for her work in favor of gender equality in the STEM-ICT sector.

He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. After completing his Ph.D. study, he was with the Robotics Institute, University of Valencia, where he was involved in several projects related to intelligent transportation systems. Since 2008, he has been with the Department of Computer Science, University of Valencia, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has been a Visiting Researcher with multiple European research centers. He has co-authored over 90 publications at national and international journals, book chapters, and conferences. He was on the Organizing Committee of several national and international conferences, including the International Workshop on Virtual Acoustics (2011). He is a member of the Spanish Acoustics Society and the European Acoustics Association

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