Máximo Cobos received the M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering in 2006, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 2009, both from the Universitat Politècnica de València. He worked on his thesis under the Faculty Training Program (FPU), obtaining the international mention and the national Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in multimedia environments from the National Association of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT). He continued his post-doctoral training at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) with the "Campus of Excellence" program, until he joined the Departament d'Informàtica at the Universitat de València, where he is currently an associate professor. His research lines focus on acoustic signal processing, machine learning, sensor networks and spatial audio. In addition to his academic work, he is an active member of several professional and scientific associations, being a member of the Board of the Association of Telecommunication Engineers of the Valencia Region (COITCV), 'senior member' of IEEE, 'full member' of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and member of the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI). In addition, he sits on various committees of international experts in his research field and serves as an associate editor for prestigious journals, such as IEEE Signal Processing Letters or EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing.

Research Lines:

• Acoustic source localization and separation.
• Machine learning for computational auditory scene analysis.
• Wireless acoustic sensor networks.
• Spatial audio.

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), fog and edge computing on 5G infraestructures and software-defined networks on synchronisation and quality of service aspects, where I have published more than 50 papers in international conferences (two of them as best paper award) and more than 40 papers in international journals (in Journal Citation Report (JCR), Q1, Q2 with more than 980 cites). I am reviewer of several high impact journals and member of serveral internacional conferences. I have participated in 15 national, 3 European, 1 European Network of Excellence and 1 national competitive projects. I have been principal investigator (PI) in 6 research projects (ELAS, Varimos I and II, Urbauramon, Eco4Ruppa and Greenish). 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 waiting for the next one. 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  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', ‘Telecommunication Enginyer’ and 'Routing, switching, troubleshooting and data optimisation', as well as course coordinator for the degree and course in Telematics Engineering, Erasmus, Final Degree Projects and Practicum coordinator. 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.

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.

J. Javier Samper Zapater has a bachelor's degree of Computer´s Science from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1995) and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Valencia (2005). Currently, he works as Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) of the University of the Computer Science Department and the School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV). He is a member of the LISITT research group belonging to the Institute of Robotics and Information Technology and Communications (IRTIC) since 1996. His areas of research focus on the fields of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Information and Web Systems Semantics In these areas, he has participated in national and international research projects (SERTI, ARTS, EASYWAY ...), with different roles: lead researcher, technical coordinator, consultant and developer. He has published more than 100 publications both in journals and conferences, in which he has participated several times as reviewer, editorial or scientific  committee, keynote speaker or chair. He is currently the secretary and founding member of ESAM Technology Company Ltd., a spin off of the University of Valencia formed in 2007. In addition, having been president from 2012 to 2022, he is currently the vice-president of the international conferences organization EATIS.org (Euro American Association on Telematics and Information Systems), president of the academic coordination commission of the Master's Degree in Telecommunication Engineering, coordinator of the third course of the Engineering Degree in Telematics, and a member of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program "Information Technology, Communications and Computing" at the University of Valencia until December 2020.

Research lines:

• Semantic Web and Linked Open Data 
• ITS systems  (Intelligent Transport Systems).