Curriculum Vitæ Resume

SCIENTIFIC IDENTIFICATION
Thomson Reuters Researcher ID (Publons): K-4395-2013
Orcid ID: 0000-0002-3208-9957
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QUALIFICATIONS
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, December 2006
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 2004
B.E. in Computer Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 2002
B.Sc. in Computer Management Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 2000
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Highly scalable image and video coding systems, rate-distortion optimization techniques, parallel architectures for image and video coding, distortion estimation, embedded quantization, interactive image and video transmission.
RESEARCH STAGES
Postdoctoral stage with the group of Michael Marcellin and Ali Bilgin at the University of Arizona, USA, 12 months, 2008-2009.
Postdoctoral stage with the group of David Taubman at the University of New South Wales, Australia, 15 months, 2007-2008.
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED
Carlos de Cea, Ph.D., defense date: December 2021. Dissertation: High Throughput Image/Video Codec with Nvidia GPUs. Co-directed with Joan Bartrina-Rapesta.
Pablo Enfedaque-Montes, Ph.D., defense date: May 2017. Dissertation: GPU Architectures for Wavelet-based Image Coding Acceleration. Co-directed with Juan Carlos Moure-Lopez.
Leandro Jimenez-Rodriguez, Ph.D., defense date: May 2014. Dissertation: Interactive transmission and visually lossless strategies for JPEG2000 imagery.
Pablo Enfedaque-Montes, M.Sc., defense date: July 2013. Dissertation: Shuffle-based implementation of the DWT on CUDA Kepler. Co-directed with Juan C. Moure-Lopez.
Jose Lino Monteagudo-Pereira, Ph.D., defense date: July 2013. Dissertation: Preemptive strategies for data transmission through JPEG2000 interactive protocol. Co-directed with Joan Serra-Sagrista.
Leandro Jimenez-Rodriguez, M.Sc., defense date: September 2010. Dissertation: FAST rate allocation for the transmission of JPEG2000 video in time-varying channels.
Joan Bartrina-Rapesta, Ph.D., defense date: January 2009. Dissertation: Region of interest coding methods for JPEG2000. Co-directed with Joan Serra-Sagrista.
REVIEWER FOR
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IET Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
ELSEVIER Signal Processing: Image Communication
ELSEVIER Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis
IEEE Access
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
ELSEVIER Neurocomputing
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
EURASIP European Signal Processing Conference
OTHER
Full professor certificate (Catedràtic), AQU (Catalan Government), October 2016
Participation in the process to obtain the quality certificate emitted by AQU (Catalan Government) for the Engineering degrees of UAB, October 2015
Member of the committee to evaluate the yearly progression of Ph.D. students (Dep. of Information and Communications Engineering), June 2015
Session Chair, Data Compression Conference, April 2015
Invited seminar to the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, March 2015
i3 certificate (Intensification Young Investigator Award), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spanish Government), December 2014
Member of the committee to evaluate the yearly progression of Ph.D. students (Dep. of Information and Communications Engineering), July 2014
IEEE Senior Member, 2014
Assessor for the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP, Spanish Government), from December 2012
Distinguished R-Letter issued in the MMTC R-letter of June 2013, Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society. Awarded for: Scanning order strategies for bitplane image coding, IEEE Trans. Image Process. (vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1920-1933), April 2012
Session Chair, Data Compression Conference, April 2012
Associate professor certificate (Titular), ANECA (Spanish Government), December 2011
Associate professor certificate (Agregat), AQU (Catalan Government), July 2011
Postdoctoral senior fellowship (Ramón y Cajal), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spanish Government), 2010-2015
Consultant for the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRI, Catalan Government), January 2010
Postdoctoral fellowship (Beatriu de Pinós), AGAUR (Catalan Government), 2009-2011 --declined in 2010--
IEEE Member, 2008
Postdoctoral fellowship (Movilidad posdoctoral), Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spanish Government), 2007-2009
Assistant professor certificate (Lector), AQU (Catalan Government), March 2007
Free software award for BOI (an implementation of the JPEG2000 Part 1 standard), Catalan Government, April 2006
IEEE Student Member, 2006
Postgraduate fellowship (FI), AGAUR (Catalan Government), 2002-2006
Postgraduate fellowship (Doctoral), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2002-2006 --declined--
B.E. with First-Class honors (Award of Bachelor given to the first students of the promotion), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2002
B.Sc. with First-Class honors (Award of Bachelor given to the first students of the promotion), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2000