Engineering Sciences Archives - ICREA Memoir 2019

Apr 11

Radeva, Petia

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Petia Radeva completed her undergraduate study on Applied Mathematics at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1989. In 1996, she received a PhD degree in Computer Vision at UAB. In 2007, she moved as Tenured Associate professor at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Department of Mathematics and Informatics, where from 2009 to 2013 she was Director of Computer Science Undergraduate Studies. Petia Radeva is Head of the Consolidated Group Computer Vision at the University of Barcelona (CVUB) at UB and Head of the Medical Imaging Laboratory of Computer Vision Center (www.cvc.uab.es). She is a coautor of 24 international patents in the field of Computer Vision applied to Medical Imaging. Associate editor of International Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. She was a vice-chair of REA-FET-OPEN-2-2015 and REA-FET-OPEN-1-2016. She obtained an ICREA Academia in 2014 and the Prize “Antonio Caparrós” for the best technology transfer project of 2013.

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Velasco Esteban, Luis

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He received the M.Sc. degree in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 1993, the MBA from UPM in 2001, and the PhD degree with honors from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2009. In 1989 he joined Telefonica of Spain and was involved on the specifications and first office application of Telefonica’s SDH transport network. In 2004 he joined UPC, where currently he is an associate professor at the Department of Computers Architecture (DAC). He has co-authored more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed International Journals and Conferences and co-authored two books. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) and in the TPC of several international conferences as well as reviewer of international journals. He has participated in various IST FP-6, FP-7, and H2020 European research projects such as NOBEL 2, e-Photon/ONe+, DICONET, BONE, STRONGEST, IDEALIST, GÉANT, and METRO-HAUL.

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Prades Garcia, Juan Daniel

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Dr. Juan Daniel Prades García (Barcelona, 1982) is Degree in Physics (2005) and in Electronic Engineering (2009), Master in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2007), and Doctor (2nd February 2009) by the University of Barcelona.

In February 2009, was hired postdoctoral researcher at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC). Later he won several professor positions in the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona, where he works until now.as. He has supervised 25 Degree and Master Theses, as well as 5 Doctorate Thesis.

Since his first paper in 2007, his publication metrics are: 82 JCR journal papers, average impact factor 5.7, more than 2200 citations, h-index = 26. This activity has allowed him to establish my own research group of 13 people (10 PhD students, 2 PostDoc, 1 Business Developer), which is currently funded by 5 ongoing projects (1.2 million Euros, on top of the ERC funding) obtained in the last couple of years.

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Llobet Valero, Eduard

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I got a PhD from the UPC (1997) and then completed a one-year postdoc at the University of Warwick (UK). Since 2006, I have been the Head of the MINOS Research Group at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, working on nanomaterials and microsystems for gas sensing. In 2009 I became full Professor. From 2010 to 2014 I was the Director of the Centre for Research in Materials Engineering and Micro / Nano Systems, a centre that brings together researchers in physics, chemistry, materials, nanoscience and microsystems. I am President of the Spanish Network of Microsystems and Nanotechnology (IBERNAM) and vice-president of the IEEE Spanish Sensor Chapter. I have co-authored 200 peer-reviewed journal papers, given 30 invited lectures at international conferences and lead over 30 regional, national and international projects. Have been invited regularly to conduct research in France and Japan. Founder of the spinoff Green Smart Data. In 2012 I received the URV’s RQR and ICREA Academia awards.

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Llorca, Jordi

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Born in Barcelona in 1966, Jordi Llorca earned his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, where he was later appointed Associate Professor and Ramón y Cajal Fellow. In 2005 he joined the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and in 2014 he became Full Professor as Serra Húnter Fellow. He has conducted research at the Univ. New Mexico (US) and CNRS and has been Invited Scholar at the Univ. Udine, Univ. Auckland and CONICET. He received the Distinction of Generalitat de Catalunya to the Promotion of the University Research in 2003, the Humbert Torres Prize in 2003 and the ICREA Academia in 2009 and in 2014. He has been Director of the Institute of Energy Technologies, Director of the Centre for Research in NanoEngineering and, now, he is Director of the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering. He has published over 300 scholarly articles and authored 12 patents. He is Academician of the Institute for Catalan Studies, Section of Science and Technology.

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Ivorra Cano, Antoni

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Antoni Ivorra is an associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain, where he leads the Biomedical Electronics Research Group (BERG). Prior to joining the UPF in 2010, he enjoyed a four-year postdoctoral stay at the University of California at Berkeley (2005-2009) followed by an eight-month postdoctoral position at the CNRS- Institut Gustave Roussy (Villejuif, France). During 1998-2005, he was with the Biomedical Applications Group of the Centre Nacional de Microelectrònica, Bellaterra, Spain. He received a PhD in Electronics Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 2005.

He is author or coauthor of 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 4 book chapters and more than 35 conference contributions. He has been inventor or co-inventor of 11 families of patent applications. In 2016 he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his research on microstimulators for neuroprosthetics.

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Lozano, Angel

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Angel Lozano received his Ph.D. from Stanford University (USA) in 1998 and was with Bell Labs (USA) between 1999 and 2008. From 2005 to 2008 he was also an Adj. Associate Professor at Columbia University (USA). Prof. Lozano is a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds 15 patents and his papers have received various awards including the Stephen O. Rice prize in 2008, the Fred W. Ellersick prize in 2016, and the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society joint paper award also in 2016. He is the recepient of an ERC Advanced Grant for the period 2017-2021 and a 2017 Highly Cited author. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Texas at Austin (USA), Imperial College (UK), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), the University of Minnesota (USA), Southeast University (China) the University of Edinburgh (UK), the University of Toronto (Canada), and New York University (USA).

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López Peña, Antonio

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Antonio M. López Peña is Associate Professor (Tenure) at the Computer Science Dpt. of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where he teaches since 1992, and where he received his PhD degree in 2000. In 2003, Antonio founded the group on Assisted/Autonomous Driving at the Computer Vision Center (CVC) of the UAB, which is a SGR consolidated group with him as Principal Investigator. Antonio participated in the foundation of the CVC itself, where he has held different responsibilities.

Antonio has a long trajectory carrying research at the intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Simulation and Assisted/Autonomous Driving. Antonio has been deeply involved in the creation of the SYNTHIA dataset and the CARLA open-source simulator. He has lead numerous competitive and industry research projects for more than 20 years.

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Marsal, Lluis

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Lluís F. Marsal (Tarragona, 1968) is Full Professor at the Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica of the Universitat Rovira I Virgili. He obtained his PhD degree in physics in 1997 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Between 1998 and 1999, he was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is a senior member of the IEEE and of the OSA. He is the chair of Spain Chapter of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and a Distinguished Lecturer of the EDS-IEEE. In 2012, he received the URV’s RQR Award for quality in research and he is a recipient of the 2014 UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award from the University of South Australia. In 2017, he was made a distinguished professor by Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He has been visiting professor at several research institutions. He has authored more than 220 publications in international refereed journals and conferences, 2 books, 5 book chapters and holds two patents.

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Martín, Ferran

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Ferran Martín received the B.S. Degree in Physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1988 and the PhD degree in 1992. Since 2007 he is Full Professor of Electronics. He is the head of the Microwave Engineering, Metamaterials and Antennas Group at UAB, and Director of CIMITEC, a research Center ascribed to UAB and focused on Technology transfer to Industry on the basis of Metamaterials and related concepts. He has authored and co-authored over 550 technical conference, letter and journal papers, and he is author or co-author of three books for John Wiley. He has generated 19 PhDs, among them 10 awarded the Extraordinary PhD Prize. Among his honors, he has been the recipient of the 2006 Duran Farell Prize for Technological Research, a Parc de Recerca UAB/Santander Technology Transfer Chair (2009), and the Icrea Academia Prize in 3 occasions (calls 2008, 2013 and 2018). He is Fellow of the IEEE since 2012 and Fellow of the IET since 2016.