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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Raúl Peña-Ortiz obtuvo sus títulos en Ingeniería Informática, Máster en Arquitectura y Tecnología de los Sistemas Informáticos y Doctorado en Informática por la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) en 2000, 2005 y 2013, respectivamente.

Su experiencia profesional abarca más de 20 años en ingeniería y calidad del software, especialmente en la aplicación de conocimiento científico para resolver problemas industriales relacionados con las aplicaciones web, sus arquitecturas, despliegues ideales y evaluación de sus prestaciones. A lo largo de los años ha participado en más de 60 proyectos y contratos de I+D+i nacionales y europeos, de los cuales ha dirigido alrededor de 25, publicando 8 artículos en revistas indexadas en el JCR y participando en 15 conferencias relevantes a nivel nacional e internacional. Además, su carrera docente se ha desarrollado principalmente en varios grados y másteres de la Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de la Universitat de València Estudi-General (UV), donde ha supervisado 6 Trabajos Finales de Grado  y 8 Trabajos Finales de Máster, participando en 2 proyectos de innovación docente.

Actualmente, se desempeña como Profesor Ayudante Doctor, con acreditación a Profesor Contratado Doctor, en el Departament d'Informàtica de la UV, donde lleva a cabo su actividad docente e investigadora en el área de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial. Su investigación se desarrolla en el Grupo de Investigación de Sistemas Inteligentes y Altas Prestaciones (HiPIS) y se enfocada en el diseño y evaluación de arquitecturas distribuidas desplegadas en la nube o la niebla, mientras imparte docencia en el Grado de Ingeniería Multimedia, el Grado de Ingeniería Telemática y en el Máster oficial en Tecnologías Web, Computación en la Nube y Aplicaciones Móviles. Además, forma parte del banco de expertos del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación para la evaluación de proyectos de I+D+i y del Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital para la evaluación de Proyectos Importantes de Interés Común Europeo (IPCEI) de Infraestructuras y Servicios en la Nube en el marco del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.

Anteriormente, trabajó en varias universidades, centros de investigación y compañías de software. Fue investigador senior en la UPV y en el Instituto Tecnológico de Informática; docente e investigador en la Universidad Técnica de Ambato y profesor asociado en la UV durante más de 7 años; ingeniero informático en el Grupo de Investigación DICAT y en el Servicio de RRHH PAS, UV; e investigador invitado en Coventry University, Trinity College Dublin, Universitat Jaume I y Universiteit Antwerpen. Por otro lado, desarrolló su carrera en la industria como jefe de proyectos y arquitecto software del Departamento de Innovación en iSOCO.