José Neira Parra

Full Professor  Area de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos Grupo de Robótica y Tiempo Real (GRTR) Dept. Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas (DIIS) Centro Politécnico Superior (CPS) Universidad de Zaragoza (UZ) c/ María de Luna , 3 50018 Zaragoza, España E-mail:       jneira at unizar dot es Phone:    (+34) 976 76 19 47 Fax:           (+34) 976 76 19 14 Room:  1.19

Currently:

• Administrative services:
• I’m Vice Dean for International Affairs of the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA)

• Conference services:
• I’m Editor in the Conference Editorial Board of ICRA 2013, the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 6 - 10, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany.
• I’m member of the Senior Program Committee for the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013). August 3-9, 2013, Beijing, China.
• I’m member of the PC of the Robotics track of AAAI-13: Twenty-Seven Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 14–18, 2013 in Bellevue, Washington, USA.

• Talks, tutorials, workshops:
• March: I gave a talk titled “Environment Modelling for Autonomous Robots using Cameras Only” at the Robotics Group, University of Tamaguchi, Ube, Japan

Teaching:

• I teach 12048 Compiler Theory II
• I teach 12082 Computer Vision with Juan Tardós
• I teach 62623 SLAM: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with José A. Castellanos

Research

· Publications by category

· Publications in inverse chronological order

· Publications according to google scholar

PhD students:

• I advice Yasir Latif (expected defence in September, 2014)

Former PhD students:

• I adviced César Cadena
• I adviced Lina María Paz
• I coadviced David Ribas (Universidad de Gerona) with Pere Ridao
• I coadviced Diego Ortín with José María Martínez Montiel

Research Projects

· Active SLAM by Cooperative Sensors in Large Scale Environments. Sponsored by the MInisterio de Ciencia e Innovación of Spain. Cont: DPI2009-13710.

· Robust 3D Real Time Vision. Application to Augmented Reality in Endoscopic Surgery. Sponsored by the MInisterio de Ciencia e Innovación of Spain. Cont: DPI2009-07130

· RAWSEEDS: Robotics Advancement through Web-publishing of Sensorial and Elaborated Extensive Data Sets (SSA- 045144) (financed by the European Union 6th Framework Program, 2006-2009).

· SLAM6DOF: Portable Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Systems for Large and Complex Environments (funded by MEC, DPI2006-13578, 2007-2009)

· Real-Time Camera Localisation in Real Environments (Con Univ. Oxford e Imperial College, financiado por EPSRC UK, GR/T24685/01, 2005-2007)

· Pushing the theoretical and practical limits of advanced SLAM systems (Con Univ. Oxford e Imperial College, financiado por The Royal Society, UK IJP2005/R2, 2005-2007)

· Multi-Vehicle Exploration of Outdoor Unstructured Environments (Con KTH, Suecia, financiado por STINT IG 2003-2060) (2003-2007)

Exchange Programs

Past Editorial services:

• Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2008 – 2012
• Co-editor of Robotics: Science and Systems VI, available from The MIT Press, 2011.
• Guest editor, Journal of Field Robotics for the special issue on Visual Mapping and Navigation Outdoors, together with Cyrill Stachniss, University of Frieburg, y Stefan Williams, University of Sydney (appeared September 2010)

· Guest editor, Robotics and Autonomous Systems for the special issue: Inside Data Association, together with Udo Frese, University of Bremen (appeared December 2009)

• Guest editor, Autonomous Robots for the special issue on Robotics: Science and Systems 2008, together with Jeff Trinkle, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (appeared in April 2009)
• Guest editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics for the Special Issue on Visual SLAM, together with Andrew Davison, Imperial College, and John Leonard, MIT (appeared in October 2008).

Past Conference Organizing Committee services:

· Member of the PC of SSRR 2012, the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Nov. 5-8, 2012, College Station, Texas, USA

• Local Arrangements and Publications Chair of Robotics: Science and Systems 2010, June 27-30, Zaragoza, Spain
• Area chair for Robotics: Science and Systems 2009, June 28-July 1, Seattle, WA, USA
• Area chair for Robotics: Science and Systems 2008, June 25-28, Zurich, Switzerland
• Co-organizer of the workshop Inside Data Association, at Robotics: Science and Systems 2008, Zurich, Switzerland

• Member of the organizing committee of CEDI 2007: II Congreso Español de Informática, Septiembre 11 – 14, Zaragoza, Spain
• President of the organizing committee of ROBOT2007: I Workshop de Robótica, Septiembre 11 – 14, Zaragoza,  Spain

Past Program Committee Member services:

• Program Committee member, the Special Track on Intelligent Robotic Systems of the 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Riva del Garda, Italy, March 25-29, 2012
• Conference Associate Editor for 2012 IEEE Intl. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , St. Paul, USA, May 14-18, 2012
• Workshops Chair and Program Committee Member for 2012 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Sydney, Australia, July 9-13 2012
• Member of the PC of the Robotics track of AAAI-12: Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Canada, July 22-26, 2012
• Associate Editor of 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, USA, September 25-30, 2011.
• Senior Program Committee of AAAI-11: Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 7-11, San Francisco, USA (and I was one of two Best AAAI 2011 Senior Program Committee Members!).
• Robotics: Science and Systems 2011, Los Angeles, USA
• Associate Editor at Large of 2011 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 9-13, Shanghai, China (and I was one of the ten finalists for Best ICRA 2011 Associate Editor!)
• IFAC 7th Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV 2010  September 6-8, 2010, Lecce, Italia.
• Intelligent Robotics Systems (ROBOT) track in SAC 2010: the 25rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22-26, 2010
• Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), July 11 - 17, 2009, Pasadena, California, USA
• Intelligent Robotics Systems (ROBOT) track on ACM SAC 2009: the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Special track on Robotics: Hardware, Software and Embedded Systems, March 8 - 12, 2009, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• ACM SAC: Symposium on Applied Computing 2008,  Fortaleza, Brasil

• IEEE/RSJ IROS 2007,  San Diego, USA
• Robotics: Science and Systems 2007, Atlanta, USA
• IEEE ICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, USA
• Robotics: Science and Systems 2006, Philadelphia, USA
• Robotics: Science and Systems 2005, Cambridge, USA
• IEEE ICRA 2004: International Conference on Robotics and Automation,  New Orleans, USA
• IEEE ICRA 2003: International Conference on Robotics and Automatio, Orlando, USA

Past courses, workshops and tutorials:

2011

• July: I gave a talk titled The Elephant in the Room at the Automated SLAM Evaluation Workshop, part of the 2011 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, July 1, 2011
• November: I gave a talk titled Environment Modelling for Robots using only Cameras at the 4^th Robotics and Mechatronics Conference of South Africa, November 25, 2011

2010

• November, I gave a talk at the Technical University of Munich, titled SLAM using Hand-held Cameras Only.
• July, I was interviewed, along with Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University, by Udo Frese, University of Bremen, on the subject: Is SLAM solved? The interview appears in the german artificial intelligence journal, KI - KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ
• May, I gave a talk at the CSAIL/MIT seminars: Large scale visual SLAM with hand-held cameras only

2009

• May: I co-organized the workshop Visual Mapping and Navigation in Outdoor Environments, part of ICRA 2009: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 12, 2009, Kobe, Japan.
• April: I gave a talk at the NATO Workshop on Innovative Solutions for Sea Mine Disposal, La Spezia, Italy, April 14, 2009
• March: I gave a talk at the RSS 2009 Area Chair Workshop, Seattle, USA, March 28, 2009
• January: I gave the lecture ‘From Bayes’ rule to SLAM EKF’ at the SLAM Summer School 2009, January 20-23, Sydney, Australia

2008

• November: I gave a plenay lecture at the Jornadas Argentinas de Robótica JAR 2008 , November 12-14, Bahía Blanca, Argentina (slides)
• June: I gave a master’s course in the Erasmus-Mundus Master in Vision and Robotics in Girona, Spain
• May: I gave a talk at the workshop Future Directions in Visual Navigation, at IEEE ICRA 2008, Pasadena, USA (slides)
• April: I gave a talk at the Freesubnet Workshop on Navigation, part of the NGCUV2008, the IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles, in Killaloe, Ireland. (slides)

2007

• November: I gave a talk at the Workshop on Visual SLAM in IEEE/RSJ ROS 2007, San Diego, USA
• October: I gave a PhD Seminar at the Cinvestav in Mexico City, Mexico (slides)
• September: I gave a SLAM minicourse the 1^st Workshop Probral in Abu Ubu, Brazil
• June: I gave a master’s course in the Erasmus-Mundus Master in Vision and Robotics in Girona, Spain

2006

• October: I gave a lecture at the Tutorial on Active estimation in Mobile Robotics: at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2006, in Beijing, China
• September: I gave a talk at the Oxford Robotics Research Group Seminars, Oxford, UK
• August: I gave a talk at the University College London Computer Vision Reading Group, London, UK
• August: I gave a lecture at the 2006 SLAM Summer School in Oxford, UK

2005

• August: I gave a lecture at the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2005 Advanced Tutorial on SLAM: Getting it Working in Real World Applications, in Edmonton, Canada
• April: I gave a lecture at the SLAM Workshop at IEEE ICRA 2005 in Barcelona, Spain

2004

• August: I gave a lecture at the SLAM Summer School 2004 in Toulouse, France

2003

· November: I gave a talk at the Oxford Robotics Research Group Seminars, Oxford, UK

2002

· April: I gave a talk at the ICRA Workshop on Concurrent Mapping and Localization for Mobile Robots, Washington, USA

2000

· April: I gave a talk at the IEEE ICRA Workshop on Mobile Robot Navigation and Mapping, San Francisco, USA

Othe stuff:

· Cycling in Zaragoza

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