Author of over 200 publications in international journals and conferences.
Co-inventor of more than 12 patents, including the Surewash system.
Recipient of the IEEE ITS Society Young Researcher Award 2018 (for researchers under 40).
Young Research Medal from the Real Academía de Ingeniería (Spain, under 40).
Social Transfer Council Award 2018.
Best National Patent Award and PCT Extension 2017.
Prize for the Best Team with Full Automation at GCDC 2016.
2013 IEEE ITSS Outstanding Application Award.
Best Young Researcher Award from UAH in 2013.
Best PhD Award by UAH in 2008.
Best Research Award in Automotive and Vehicle Applications in Spain in 2008.
3M Foundation Award in eSafety category in 2009.
Master Thesis Award in eSafety from ADA Lectureship, Technical University of Madrid, 2004.
Best Telecommunication Engineering Student Award by IVECO in 2004.
Editor-in-Chief of IET Intelligent Transport Systems since 2020.
Section Editor-in-Chief of Applied Sciences journal since 2023.
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2012–2020).
Associate Editor of Journal of Advanced Transportation (2016–2020).
Served on Program/Organizing Committees of over 20 international conferences.
Research Experience
Currently Scientific Officer at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), working with the HUMAINT team and the European Centre of Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT).
Full Professor at the Computer Engineering Department, University of Alcalá (UAH); former lead of the INVETT research group.
Research visitor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), 2005–2006, under the supervision of Dr. Gerard Lacey.
Research visitor at the Department of Environment Perception, Daimler Research and Development (Ulm, Germany), 2008, under the supervision of Dr. Dariu Gavrila.
Research visitor at the Active and Attentive Vision Lab, York University (Toronto, Canada), 2019, collaborating with Dr. John Tsotsos.
Co-founder of Vision Safety Technologies Ltd since 2009, a spin-off commercializing computer vision systems for road infrastructure inspection.
Vice-Director, Director of International & Companies Relations, and Director of Internship Programs of the Polytechnic School at UAH (2017–2019).
Head of the Systems Engineering and Automation Teaching Area (2012–2018).
Vice-Director of the Computer Engineering Department at UAH (2012–2017).