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Seco Granados, Gonzalo

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Gonzalo Seco-Granados received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Eng. from the Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 2000, and the MBA. degree from the IESE Business School, Spain, in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he was a member of the European Space Agency, where he was involved in the design of the Galileo system. In 2015 and 2019, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is currently Professor in the Dept. of Telecommunication, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, where he was Vice Dean of the Engineering School during 2011-19. His research interests include satellite and terrestrial localization systems. Since 2018, he has been serving as a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Since 2019, he is President of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.

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Velasco Esteban, Luis

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He received the B.Sc. degree in Telecom. Engineering from Univ. Politécnica de Madrid in 1989, the M.Sc. degree in Physics from Univ. Complutense de Madrid in 1993, and the PhD degree from Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2009. He joined Telefonica in 1989 and was involved on the standardization, procurement, and first office application of Telefonica’s SDH transport network. In 2004 he joined UPC, where currently he is a full professor and senior researcher at the Advanced Broadband Comm. Center (CCABA). He has co-authored more than 200 papers and two books related to Elastic Optical Networks. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA J. Optical Comm. and Networking and in the TPC of several international conferences. He has participated in European research projects such as FP7 IDEALIST and H2020 METRO-HAUL, and MSCA REAL-NET and MENTOR. His interests include intent-based networking (monitoring and AI/ML), for autonomous toward 6G networks and services.

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Serra Casals, Xavier

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Professor of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies and Director of the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He obtained a PhD from Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation on the spectral processing of musical sounds that is considered a key reference in the field. His research interests cover the computational analysis, description, and synthesis of sound and music signals, with a balance between basic and applied research and approaches from both scientific/technological and humanistic/artistic disciplines. He was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to carry out the project CompMusic aimed at promoting multicultural approaches in music information research.

Apr 09
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Prades Garcia, Juan Daniel

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Prof. J. Daniel Prades is a Full Professor of Electronic Technology at the Universitat de Barcelona. He has published 90 scientific articles (4000+ citations, h-index 35), and has given 35 invited talks in international conferences. He has coordinated 30 Research Projects and Grants on device development, smart system integration and environmental monitoring; including 11 European/International Projects, 19 National Projects and other Projects with Industry. He is co-inventor of 9 patents, 2 of them under commercial exploitation. In 2018, he founded “ColorSensing” https://www.color-sensing.com, a start-up based in Catalonia devoted to smart packaging for food processing efficiency, quality, and safety. He is the EuroSensors Fellow 2017 and ICREA Academia awardee since 2018.

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Puig Broch, Sebastià

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I graduated in Chemistry at the Universitat de Girona (UdG) in 2002, where I also pursued PhD studies. Research work during my PhD involved scientific stays at TU Delft (The Netherlands) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ir. Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht. My academic career continued with two postdoctoral positions at TUDelft and Catalan Institute for Water Research in the period 2008-2010 thanks to a Beatriu de Pinós Fellowship. In 2010, I came back to the UdG holding the position of Assistant Professor. In 2014, I received the award “Young talented researcher in Sustainable Water Management” from Fundación Botin (Spain). In 2019, I got the position of Associate Professor Serra Húnter at UdG. I have supervised 5 postdoctoral researchers and 7 doctoral theses (+6 ongoing). I am currently the UdG PI of 2 H2020 EU projects (BioRECO2VER; ELECTRA), one Swedish (ELECTROSYMBIOSIS) and 2 national projects (COOMET; WAFRA).

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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. I am President of the Spanish Network of Microsystems and Nanotechnology (IBERNAM). I have co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers, given some 30 invited lectures at international conferences and lead over 35 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 award and the ICREA Academia award (in 2012 and 2018). In 2019 I became distinguished Professor at the URV.

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López Peña, Antonio M.

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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.

Apr 09
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Llorca Piqué, Jordi

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Born in Barcelona in 1966, Jordi Llorca graduated and 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 as Professor and in 2014 he became Full Professor as Serra Húnter Fellow. He has been visiting professor at several universities. He has 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, 2014 and in 2019. He has been Director of the Institute of Energy Technologies and Director of the Center for Research in NanoEngineering at UPC and currently he is Director of the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering. In 2017 he became Academic member of the Institute for Catalan Studies, Division of Science and Technology. He has published over 380 scholarly articles and authored 10 patents.

Apr 09
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Lozano, Angel

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Prof. Lozano received the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1994 and 1998, respectively. From 1999 to 2008, he was with Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, now Nokia) in Holmdel, NJ. Between 2005 and 2008 he was also an Adj. Associate Professor at Columbia University. Prof. Lozano is a Fellow of the IEEE, an editor for the IEEE ComSoc Technology News, an area editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and a former editor for various other journals. He holds 16 patents and is the coauthor of the textbook “Foundations of MIMO Communication” released by Cambridge University Press in 2019. His papers have received several awards, including the 2009 Stephen O. Rice prize, the 2016 Fred W. Ellersick prize, and the 2016 Communications Society & Information Theory Society joint award. He also received the ICREA Academia Award for 2011-2015, 2016-2020, 2021-2025, and an ERC Advanced Grant for 2016-2021. He was a 2017 Highly Cited Researcher.

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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 650 technical conference, letter and journal papers, and he is author or co-author of three books for John Wiley and one book for Springer. He has generated 21 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.

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