| SCIENTIFIC IDENTIFICATION |
| Thomson Reuters Researcher ID (Publons): K-4395-2013 |
| Orcid ID: 0000-0002-3208-9957 |
| Universität Trier DBLP bibliography: homepage |
| Google Scholar: profile |
| 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 |
| Responsible for Equality in the Engineering School of UAB, since June 2021 |
| 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 |