I'm an associate profesor at the University of Zaragoza. I'm also a member of the robotics group at Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A) in Zaragoza. My research interests span machine learning, robotics, computer vision, assistive technologies and Bayesian optimization.
Previously, I was an advisor at SigOpt (acquired by Intel in 2020), a senior lecturer at the Centro Universitario de la Defensa (CUD) at Zaragoza, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon and a visiting scholar at the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence, at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
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News
- I got interviewed again by the local radio about our research on assistive devices [in spanish]. (min 3:16)
- Our team participated in two Ego4D challenges for CVPR2024. Thanks to the terrific work by Carlos Plou and Lorenzo Mur we won the Goal Step challenge! 🏆🥇 And Lorenzo also got second place in the Short Term Object Interaction Anticipation Challenge! 🏆🥈
- I have been accepted as a the first ELLIS member from UniZar. ELLIS - the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems - is a pan-European AI network of excellence which focuses on fundamental science, technical innovation and societal impact.
- I got interviewed by the local TV about the recent developments in AI [in spanish].
- Congrats to Javier Rodriguez-Puigvert for successfully defending his PhD viva, including a live demo of LightDepth!
- My student, Carlos Plou, got second place in the Triple Helix price for technology transfer in Aragon. Congratulations!
- In the same week, we had two papers at ICCV in Paris and one at IROS in Detroit. So proud of our team!
- I've been selected as a top 10% reviewer for AISTATS 2022.
- My student Melani Sanchez-García successfully defended her PhD viva on prosthetic vision. Congratulations, Melani!
- I'm co-organizing a workshop for IROS 2021: Egocentric vision for interactive perception, learning, and control.
- Excited to say that SigOpt, the startup I've been a collaborator for 4 years, has been acquired by Intel. Congratulations to the amazing team that has made it possible.
- We are launching the Spanish network for Machine Learning and Computer Vision for Human Analysis and Robotic Perception.
- After almost 9 years at CUD Zaragoza, I'm starting in my new position in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Zaragoza.
- Series of conferences in Zaragoza about AI from different perspectives: psychology, neuroscience and engineering.