Contact Information

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Perceptual Intelligence, Wearable Physiological Monitoring, Smart Clothes, Human Behavior Modeling, Action Understanding, Event Perception, Human Computer Interaction, Intelligent Interfaces, Intelligence Augmentation, Object Tracking, Perceptual Organization, Human Motion Analysis, Biological Vision, Racing, E-markets, Implications of Technology in Education and Health

Education

Ph.D. (MIT, Spring'00)
Thesis: "Towards Perceptual Intelligence: Statistical Modeling of Human Individual and Interactive Behaviors"
MIT Media Lab
Work on machine learning, AI, computer vision, computational perception, wearable computers
My Ph.D. thesis in PDF format

S.M. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Honors: Best EECS graduate student of Spain
(Two Majors: Signal Processing and Computer Networks)
Master's Thesis in Computer Vision.
U.P.M. ( Technical University of Madrid, Spain), 1994

S.B. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
U.P.M. ( Technical University of Madrid, Spain ), 1992
Honors: Best EECS student of my school

Professional Experience

Scientific Director in Multimedia at Telefonica R&D

Barcelona, Spain, 2007 - current

 

Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond

Redmond, WA USA 2000-2007

 

Visiting Scientist at GMD FIRST
Theoretical work on Kernel Methods for Machine Learning
Berlin, Germany, April-May 1999

Research Engineer at Telefonica R&D
(Spanish major telecommunications company)
Madrid, Spain, 1994-95

Research Assistant Engineer at Siemens
Munich, Germany, July-Sept 1993

Research Assistant Engineer at Siemens
Munich, Germany, July-Sept 1992

Awards and Honors

TR100 Young Innovator Award. MIT Technology Review's Award to the top 100 young innovators in the world. Sept 04.

Named one of the 40 most promising young Spanish persons by EL PAIS newspaper. Oct 99.

Motorola Fellow (1997-1998)

'La Caixa Foundation' Fellow (1995-1997)

Spanish First National Award of EECS graduates (1994)

First Award for MS EECS graduates of ETSIT (UPM) (1994)

First Award for BS EECS students of ETSIT (UPM) (1992)

Siemens 'International Student Circle' Fellow (1992-1993)

First National Prize of Telecommunications Engineering (EECS) (1994)

First School Prize of Telecommunications Engineering (EECS) . ETSIT. Univ. Politecnica Madrid. (1994)

First School Prize of Telecommunications Engineering (EECS). ETSIT. Univ. Politecnica Madrid (1992)

Service

Regular reviewer and Program Committee member of a variety of conferences and journals in machine learning, intelligent interfaces, human-computer interaction, computer vision, multimodal interfaces, mobile computing and health (IUI, MobileHCI, NIPS, CHI, AAAI, UCAMI, HealthNet, CVPR, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TCSVT, etc...)

Technical Program Chair for IUI 2009 (with Dan Weld)

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