Hi! my name is Santiago Felici-Castell, I was born in Algemesí (Valencia). I completed my Telecommunication Engineer degree and my PhD in Telecommunication Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València in 1993 and 1998 respectively. I am currently a tenured professor at the Universitat de València in the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria (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 1000 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 3 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. I am an evaluator of the AQU Catalan Quality Agency, the Andalusian Agency and MINECO.

Degree in Physics (specialising in Electricity, Electronics and Computing) and a Phd in Computer Engineering.

Director of the Official Master's degree in Web Technologies, Cloud Computing and Mobile Applications.

Research on Cloud Computing (monitoring, adaptation of the infrastructure to new services and architectures for the deployment of infrastructure, etc). Long time ago I was interested in the application of response models of the human visual system to Image Processing and Video.

Inmaculada Coma is Associate Professor in the Area of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Informatics of the University of Valencia.

Her research and technology transfer work, carried out within the ARTEC group at IRTIC (University Institute for Research in Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies), focuses on driving simulation —the subject of her PhD thesis—, virtual and augmented reality, and information visualization. She has participated in numerous contracts and national and European projects aimed at applications in immersive environments for engineering, education, cultural heritage, and medicine. She co-directed the Chair of Gamification and Open Government in the City of Valencia (2021–2023) and is currently Director of the Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Information Visualization (IAVIS) at the University of Valencia, in collaboration with the Valencia City Council, from where she promotes research, technology transfer, and outreach initiatives in artificial intelligence and advanced visualization.

In the field of university management, she has taken on different responsibilities, including course coordinator and coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia Engineering (2011–2018) during its implementation at the University of Valencia and the processes of national and international accreditation. Since 2018, she has been Deputy Director of the School of Engineering (ETSE-UV), responsible for the academic management of the Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Engineering and Multimedia Engineering, as well as for the School’s Digital Transformation, promoting modernization and digitalization processes.

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.

Dr Verónica Romero is a senior lecturer at the University of Valencia. In 2005, she received a degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a PhD in Computer Science from the same university in 2010. In 2005, she joined the PRHLT research centre at the UPV, where she has worked on several national and European projects on pattern recognition and handwritten text recognition. In 2020, she joined the School of Engineering at the University of Valencia as a lecturer and the TADeSP research group, of which she is currently the director. Her current fields of interest include machine learning, pattern recognition, multimodal interaction, natural language processing and applications to handwritten text recognition. Verónica Romero has collaborated on more than 15 research projects since 2005. She has published more than 70 articles in journals, conference proceedings and books. She is also vice-president of the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI). 

Raúl Peña-Ortiz obtained his degrees in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2000 and 2013, respectively.

His professional experience spans 25 years in the design and development of distributed solutions, with a particular focus on the application of scientific knowledge to solve industrial problems related to web applications, their architectures, optimal deployments, and performance evaluation. Over the years, he has participated in more than 60 national and European R&D&I projects and contracts, leading approximately 25 of them. He has published several articles in JCR-indexed journals and has participated in more than a dozen relevant national and international conferences. As a result of this research activity, he was awarded two six-year research evaluation periods (sexenios) in 2022 and 2023. In addition, he was a member of the expert panel of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the evaluation of R&D&I projects (2019–2021), and of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation for the evaluation of Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on Cloud Infrastructure and Services within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (2021). On the other hand, his teaching career has been mainly developed in several undergraduate and master’s degree programmes at the School of Engineering of the  University of Valencia (UV), which awarded him his first five-year teaching evaluation period (quinquenio) in 2021. He has participated in 6 teaching innovation projects and has supervised 16 Final Degree Projects and 15 Master’s Thesis.

He is currently an Associate Professor (Profesor Permanente Laboral) in the Department of Computer Science at the UV, where he carries out his teaching and research activities in the area of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. His research is conducted within the High Performance and Intelligent Systems Research Group (HiPIS) and focuses on the design and evaluation of distributed architectures deployed in the cloud. He teaches in the Bachelor’s Degrees in Multimedia Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Telematics Engineering, as well as in the official Master’s Degree in Web Technology, Cloud Computing, and Mobile Applications.

Previously, he worked at several universities, research centres, and software companies. He was a senior researcher at UPV and at the Instituto Tecnológico de Informática; a lecturer and researcher at the Universidad Técnica de Ambato; and an part-time lecturer at the UV for more than seven years. He also worked as a computer engineer in the DICAT Research Group and in the Human Resources Service at UV, and as a visiting researcher at Coventry University, Trinity College Dublin, Universitat Jaume I, and Universiteit Antwerpen. In addition, he developed his professional career in industry as a project manager and software architect in the Innovation Department of iSOCO.