I'm an assistant profesor at the University of Zaragoza and a scientific advisor at SigOpt. I'm also a member of the robotics group at Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A) in Zaragoza.
Previously, I was a senior lecturer (profesor) at the Centro Universitario de la Defensa (CUD) at Zaragoza and, before that, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. I received my PhD and MSc in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza in 2008 and 2003, respectively.
My research interests span machine learning, robotics, computer vision, assistive technologies and Bayesian optimization.
You may want to read my publications, see the videos and results of some of my research or directly contact me.
News
- 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.
- Invited to the Machine Learning and Computer Vision panel discussion at the Spanish automatic meeting.
- Series of conferences in Zaragoza about AI from different perspectives: psychology, neuroscience and engineering.