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Dr. Rubén Solera Ureña is an Auxiliary Researcher at the Human Language Technology (HLT) Laboratory at INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering and Multimedia and Communications, respectively, from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2004 and 2011. From 2003 to 2014, he held several teaching and research positions at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. In May 2015, he moved to the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L2F) at INESC-ID (currently HLT Laboratory), where he has been involved as a post-doctoral researcher in several research projects and programmes in the field of speech and language technologies. Since October 2023, Rubén Solera Ureña has been working as an Auxiliary Researcher in the Accelarat.AI project, which aims to create disruptive solutions based on conversational artificial intelligence agents and CCaaS (contact centre as a service) that will accelerate more efficient interaction between public/private entities and customers/citizens. He is mainly involved in the research and development activities of the modules of the speech-to-speech conversational stack, especially those related to automatic speech recognition for Portuguese. His current research interests include signal processing, machine learning, speech processing, automatic speech recognition, and computational paralinguistics. Rubén Solera Ureña has participated in 17 national and international projects and has co-authored 17 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rubén Solera Ureña

Citation names

  • Solera-Ureña, Rubén
  • Solera-Ureña, R.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4C1C-619D-C1C7

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Telecommunications
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Communication Engineering and Systems

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2004 - 2011
Concluded
 Ph.D. in Multimedia and Communications (Doctor)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
"Support Vector Machines for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition (Orig. title: Máquinas de vectores soporte para reconocimiento robusto de habla)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa Cum Laude
1998 - 2004
Concluded
 M.Sc. Telecommunications Engineering (Master)
Major in Telecommunications Systems and Networks
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
"High-quality voice and audio codification (Orig. title: Codificación de voz de alta calidad y audio)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2019/01 - 2023/09 Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2015/05 - 2018/12 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2010/11 - 2011/09 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2003/11 - 2004/10 Research Trainee (Research) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/09 - 2014/09 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2011/10 - 2013/09 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2008/11 - 2010/10 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2004/11 - 2008/10 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/10/01 - Current Accelerat.AI
02/C05-i01.01/2022.PC644865762-00000008
Post-doc
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2019/01/02 - 2023/09/30 Não disponível
DL 57/2016/CP1368/CT0003
Post-doc
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
UID/CEC/50021/2019
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015/05 - 2018/12 INSIDE - Intelligent Networked Robot Systems for Symbiotic Interaction with Children with Impaired Development
CMUP-ERI/HCI/0051/2013
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/01 - 2014/09 Annotation, indexing and codification of user-generated content (orig. title: Anotación, indexación y codificación de contenido generado por usuario)
TEC2011-26807
Post-doc
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
2011/01 - 2012/12 NowCasting
IPT-120000-2010-24
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
2012/02 - 2012/11 Prospective analysis and algorithm design for video coding (Orig. title: Prospectiva y Diseño de Algorítmica para Codificación de Vídeo)
Post-doc
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Procesamiento Digital y Sistemas S.L. (PRODYS)
Concluded
2011/01 - 2011/12 Application of semi-supervised clustering methods to the analysis of audiovisual content (AMASSACA) (Orig. title: Aplicación de métodos de agrupamiento semi-supervisado al análisis de contenidos audiovisuales (AMASSACA))
CCG10-UC3M/TIC-5304
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Comunidad de Madrid
Concluded
2009/01 - 2011/12 Supplementary techniques for improved robustness of HMM-based speech recognition systems (Orig. title: Técnicas complementarias a los HMMs para mejorar la robustez de los sistemas de reconocimiento de habla)
TEC2008-06382
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
2007/01 - 2011/01 Technologies for automatic creation and management of intelligent audiovisual content - Mediaproducción (Orig. title: Tecnologías para la creación y gestión automatizada de contenidos audiovisuales inteligentes)
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Mediaproducción S.L.
Concluded
2007/01 - 2011/01 Technologies for automatic creation and management of intelligent audiovisual content - Alcatel (Orig. title: Tecnologías para la creación y gestión automatizada de contenidos audiovisuales inteligentes)
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Alcatel S.A.
Concluded
2007/01 - 2007/12 Application of SVMs to classification problems in speech recognition and video coding (Orig. title: Aplicaciones de las SVMs a problemas de clasificación en reconocimiento de habla y codificación de vídeo)
CCG06-UC3M/TIC-0812
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Comunidad de Madrid
Concluded
2006/01 - 2007/03 Feasibility of multi-factor and multi-modal (mobile device + voice) solutions for strong authentication in service access (phase II) (Orig. title: Viabilidad de soluciones multifactor y multimodal (móvil+voz) para autenticación fuerte en el acceso a servicios (2ª fase))
FIT-360000-2006-35
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Industria Energía y Turismo
Concluded
2006/07 - 2007/01 Design of an audio encoder and the multiplexed frame for DRM (Orig. title: Diseño del módulo de codificación audio y la coordinación y diseño de la trama multiplexada DRM)
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Vídeo Medios S.A. (VIMESA)
Concluded
2006/01 - 2006/12 Applications of discriminative models to speech recognition and video coding (Orig. title: Aplicaciones de modelos discriminativos en reconocimiento de habla y codificación de vídeo)
UC3M-TEC-05-059
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Comunidad de Madrid
Concluded
2005/01 - 2006/03 Feasibility of multi-factor and multi-modal (mobile device + voice) solutions for strong authentication in service access (phase I) (Orig. title: Viabilidad de soluciones multifactor y multimodal (móvil+voz) para autenticación fuerte en el acceso a servicios)
FIT-360000-2005-76
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Industria Energía y Turismo
Concluded
2005/01 - 2006/03 Enhanced vocal interfaces for use of mobile devices by handicapped and elderly people (Orig. title: Interfaces vocales en dispositivos móviles: mejoras para facilitar su uso por parte de discapacitados y personas mayores)
GR/SAL/0472/2004
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Comunidad de Madrid
Concluded
2004/01 - 2004/12 A platform for the deployment of data solutions with vocal interaction for GPRS (phase II) (Orig. title: Plataforma para el despliegue de soluciones interactivas de datos para GPRS con interacción vocal (2ª fase))
FIT-340100-2004-1
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Industria Energía y Turismo
Concluded
2003/09 - 2004/05 Analysis of a digital speech encoding and modulation system (Orig. title: Análisis de sistema de codificación de voz y modulación digital)
Research Fellow
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Vídeo Medios S.A. (VIMESA)
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Moniz, Helena; Batista, Fernando; Fernandez-Astudillo, Ramon; Campos, Joana; Paiva, Ana; Trancoso, Isabel. "Acoustic-prosodic automatic personality trait assessment for adults and children". In Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages, edited by Abad, Alberto; Mateo C.G.; Ortega A.; Mamede, Nuno; Martinez Hinarejos C.D.; Teixeira, A..; Batista, Fernando; Perdigão, F, 192-201. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-49169-1_19
  2. García-Moral, A.I.; Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Peláez-Moreno, C.; Díaz-de-María, F.. "Hybrid models for automatic speech recognition: A comparison of classical ANN and kernel based methods". In Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing, edited by Chetouani M.; Hussain A.; Gas B.; Milgram M.; Zarader JL., 152-160. Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
    Published
  3. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Padrell-Sendra, J.; Martín-Iglesias, D.; Gallardo-Antolín, A.; Peláez-Moreno, C.; Díaz-de-María, F.. "SVMs for Automatic Speech Recognition: A Survey". In Progress in Nonlinear Speech Processing, edited by Stylianou, Y.; Faundez-Zanuy, M.; Esposito, A., 190-216. Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-540-71505-4_11
Conference paper
  1. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Botelho, Catarina; Teixeira, Francisco; Rolland, Thomas; Abad, Alberto; Trancoso, Isabel. "Transfer Learning-Based Cough Representations for Automatic Detection of COVID-19". Paper presented in 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2021), Brno, 2021.
    Published • 10.21437/interspeech.2021-1702
  2. Pompili, Annamaria; Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Abad, Alberto; Cardoso, Rita; Guimarães, Isabel; Fabbri, Margherita; Martins, Isabel P.; Ferreira, Joaquim. "Assessment of Parkinson's Disease Medication State Through Automatic Speech Analysis". Paper presented in 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020), Shanghai, 2020.
    Published • 10.21437/interspeech.2020-2726
  3. Cabarrão, Vera; Julião, Mariana; Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Moniz, Helena; Batista, Fernando; Trancoso, Isabel; Mata, A.I.. "Affective analysis of customer service calls". Paper presented in 10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2019), Lisbon, 2019.
    Published • 10.36505/exling-2019/10/0009/000371
  4. Moniz, Helena; Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Cabarrão, Vera; Julião, Mariana; Batista, Fernando; Trancoso, Isabel. "Affective computing based on acoustic-prosodic cues". Paper presented in 14th Annual INGRoup Conference (Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research), Interactive session: Frontiers of group interaction research - Promoting collaborations among social and computer scientists, Lisbon, 2019.
    Published
  5. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Moniz, Helena; Batista, Fernando; Cabarrão, Vera; Pompili, Annamaria; Fernández-Astudillo, Ramón; Trancoso, Isabel. "Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semi-supervisionada para a percepção automática de personalidade, baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas em domínios com poucos recursos". Paper presented in XXXIV Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (XXXIV ENAPL 2018), Lisbon, 2018.
    Published
  6. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Moniz, Helena; Batista, Fernando; Cabarrão, Vera; Pompili, A.; Fernández-Astudillo, Ramón; Campos, Joana; Paiva, Ana; Trancoso, Isabel. "A semi-supervised learning approach for acoustic-prosodic personality perception in under-resourced domains". Paper presented in 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017), Stockholm, 2017.
    Published • 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1732
  7. González-Díaz, I.; García-García, D.; Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Madrid-Sánchez, J.; Gómez-Verdejo, V.; Martínez-Ramón, M.; Díaz-de-María, F.; Arenas-García, J.. "UC3M high level feature extraction at TRECVID 2008". Paper presented in TREC VIDEO RETRIEVAL EVALUATION (TRECVID) Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2008.
    Published
  8. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Pérez-Cruz, F.; Díaz-De-María, F.. "Estimación de probabilidades a posteriori en SVMs multiclase para reconocimiento de habla continua". Paper presented in IV Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla 2006, Zaragoza, 2006.
    Published
  9. Escudero-Garzás, JJ.; Sanfiz-Pinto, A.; Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Miranda-Andrade, J.; Sánchez-Fernández, MP.; Díaz-de-María, Fernando; García-Armada, A.. "Equipo de comentarista digital basado en OFDM". Paper presented in XIV Jornadas Telecom I+D 2004, Madrid, 2004.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Moniz, Helena; Batista, Fernando; Cabarrão, Vera; Pompili, Annamaria; Fernández-Astudillo, Ramón; Trancoso, Isabel. "Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semissupervisionada para a classificação automática de personalidade baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas". Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística 5 (2019): 348-364. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln5ano2019a23.
    Published
  2. Francisco S. Melo; Sardinha, Alberto; Belo, David; Couto, Marta; Faria, Miguel; Farias, A; Gamboa, Hugo; et al. "Project INSIDE: Towards Autonomous Semi-Unstructured Human-Robot Social Interaction in Autism Therapy". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 96 (2019): 198-216. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85059204221&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.artmed.2018.12.003
  3. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; García-Moral, A.I.; Peláez-Moreno, C.; Martínez-Ramon, M.; Díaz-De-María, F.. "Real-time robust automatic speech recognition using compact support vector machines". IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 20 4 (2012): 1347-1361. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84857488250&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/TASL.2011.2178597
  4. García-Moral, A.I.; Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Peláez-Moreno, C.; Díaz-De-María, F.. "Data balancing for efficient training of hybrid ANN/HMM automatic speech recognition systems". IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 19 3 (2011): 468-481. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78149247542&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/TASL.2010.2050513
  5. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Martín-Iglesias, D.; Gallardo-Antolín, A.; Peláez-Moreno, C.; Díaz-de-María, F.. "Robust ASR using Support Vector Machines". Speech Communication 49 4 (2007): 253-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2007.01.013.
    Published • 10.1016/j.specom.2007.01.013
Preprint
  1. Mendonça, J.; Solera-Ureña, R.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Using self-supervised feature extractors with attention for automatic COVID-19 detection from speech". 2021. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85170887995&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arxiv.2107.00112
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Solera-Ureña, Rubén. "Máquinas de vectores soporte para reconocimiento robusto de habla". PhD, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2011. https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/12577.
  2. Solera-Ureña, Rubén. "Codificación de voz de alta calidad y audio". Master, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2004.
Working paper
  1. Couto, Marta; Jesus, C.,; Solera-Ureña, Rubén. 2017. "The Ideal Study Protocol (Project INSIDE Internal Report)". https://iid-intranet.inesc-id.pt/publications/downloadfile?id=40361e2f-63dd-4529-acac-29dd455825b5.
  2. MATEUS, ANDRÉ; Guerra, Carla; Solera-Ureña, Rubén. 2017. "Architecture Technical Report (Project INSIDE Technical Report 001-17)". https://iid-intranet.inesc-id.pt/publications/downloadfile?id=c6c450de-03cc-41a9-8d30-2910b5faba4d.
  3. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Moniz, Helena. 2016. "Human-Robotic Agent Speech Interaction (Project INSIDE Technical Report 002-16)". https://iid-intranet.inesc-id.pt/publications/downloadfile?id=12a7948a-693c-418c-bd1f-5082a6d0e8bc.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/11 Automatic Detection of COVID-19 from Coughs Guest lecture, Master's course Processamento Computacional da Língua
Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitetura-ISCTE, Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/09 Transfer Learning-Based Cough Representations for Automatic Detection of COVID-19 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2021)
International Speech Communication Association (Brno, Czech Republic)
2020/10 Assessment of Parkinson's Disease Medication State through Automatic Speech Analysis 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020)
International Speech Communication Association (Shanghai, China)
2020/10 Um exemplo de colaboração multidisciplinar em Paralinguística Computacional: perceção automática de personalidade baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas Guest lecture, curricular unit Computational Linguistics, Bachelor Degree
FLUL-Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/12 Acoustic-prosodic personality perception in under-resourced domains: a semi-supervised learning approach Guest lecture, subject Língua Natural, Mestrado em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores
IST, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/10 Um exemplo de colaboração multidisciplinar em Paralinguística Computacional: perceção automática de personalidade baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas Guest lecture, Curricular unit Computational Linguistics, Bachelor Degree
FLUL, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/09 Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semi-supervisionada para a percepção automática de personalidade, baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas em domínios com poucos recursos XXXIV Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (XXXIV ENAPL 2018)
Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/08 A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Acoustic-Prosodic Personality Perception in Under-Resourced Domains 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017)
International Speech Communication Association (Stockholm, Sweden)
2016/11 Acoustic-Prosodic Automatic Personality Trait Assessment for Adults and Children Third International Conference, IberSPEECH 2016
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2016/04/14 - 2016/07/27 Automatic Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisor of Benjamin Chamand
 Masters in Intelligent Systems and Microsystems (ISM) - Robotic and Interactive Systems (SIR) specialization (Other)
UPSSITECH Engineering School, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France
2011 - 2012/06 Prediction of direct normal irradiance using sky-camera images (Orig. title: Predicción de la irradiancia directa normal a partir de imágenes de una cámara de cielo)
Co-supervisor of Elena Jiménez Vázquez
 M.Sc. Telecommunications Engineering (Master)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2008 - 2009/02 A tool for visualization and analysis of the localization of support vectors in hybrid HMM/SVM automatic speech recognisers (Orig. title: Herramienta de visualización y análisis de la localización de vectores soporte en reconocedores de habla híbridos HMM/SVM)
Co-supervisor of Emilio de Oteo Pérez
 B.Sc. Telecommunications Engineering (Degree)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2008 - 2009/01 Automatic speech recognition based on multi-scale analysis: combination of features and likelihoods (Orig. title: Reconocimiento de habla basado en análisis multiescala: combinación de características y de verosimilitudes)
Co-supervisor of Irene Moreno González
 M.Sc. Telecommunications Engineering (Master)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2007 - 2008/05 Performance assessment of subphonemic acoustic units in a hybrid SVM/HMM speech recognition system (Orig. title: Ensayo de unidades acústicas subfonémicas en un sistema de reconocimiento de habla híbrido SVM/HMM)
Co-supervisor of Adrián Lizano Navarro
 M.Sc. Telecommunications Engineering (Master)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/11 - 2016/11 Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages - Third International Conference, IberSPEECH 2016, Lisbon, Portugal - Member of the Local Organizing Committee (2016/11/23 - 2016/11/25)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2016/07 - 2016/07 6th Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS 2016), Lisbon, Portugal - Laboratory tutor (2016/07/21 - 2016/07/28)
Other (Other)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2015/09 - 2015/09 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal - Volunteer staff (2015/09/17 - 2015/09/21)
Conference (Other)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/06/05 Design of Intelligent models for Multimodal Socio-Affective Computing
(Thesis) Arguer
 Cristina Luna Jiménez (PhD)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Spain
2022/11/24 Nasality detection in Parkinson's Disease
Thesis Member
 Matilde Maria Silva Peixoto (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/11/25 Bayesian and Echoic Log-surprise for Auditory Saliency Detection
(Thesis) Arguer
 Antonio Rodríguez Hidalgo (PhD)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2017/09/29 Bio-motivated Features and Deep Learning for Robust Speech Recognition
(Thesis) Arguer
 Fernando de la Calle Silos (PhD)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2007/02 - Current The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Member
2005/06 - Current Red Temática en Tecnologías del Habla (Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology) Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2009 - 2010 Member of the Academic Commission of the Degree in Telematics Engineering - Internal Quality Assurance System, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Member
 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/11 - 2023/11 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024) Seoul, Korea
2023/04 - 2023/04 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2023) Dublin, Ireland
2022/12 - 2023/01 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023) Rhodes Islands, Greece
2022/09 - 2022/09 Sixth International Conference, IberSPEECH 2022 Granada, Spain
2022/05 - 2022/05 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2022) Incheon, Korea
2022/05 - 2022/05 5th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2021/12 - 2021/12 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022) Singapore
2021/11 - 2021/11 Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 15th International Conference, PROPOR 2022 Fortaleza, Brazil
2021/04 - 2021/05 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2021) Brno, Czech Republic
2021/01 - 2021/01 Fifth International Conference, IberSPEECH 2020 Valladolid, Spain
2020/12 - 2021/01 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2020/06 - 2020/06 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020) Shanghai, China
2019/12 - 2019/12 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020) Barcelona, Spain
2019/11 - 2019/11 Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 14th International Conference, PROPOR 2020 Evora, Portugal
2019/05 - 2019/05 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2019) Graz, Austria
2018/12 - 2018/12 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019) Brighton, UK
2018/08 - 2018/10 Fourth International Conference, IberSPEECH 2018 Barcelona, Spain
2018/06 - 2018/06 Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 13th International Conference, PROPOR 2018 Canela, Brazil
2018/04 - 2018/04 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2018) Hyderabad, India
2017/12 - 2017/12 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018) Calgary (AB), Canada
2017/04 - 2017/04 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017) Stockholm, Sweden
2016/09 - 2016/09 Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages - Third International Conference, IberSPEECH 2016 Lisbon, Portugal
2016/04 - 2016/04 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2016) San Francisco (CA), USA
2012/08 - 2012/08 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2012) Seville, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2004 - 2014 Lecturer and course coordinator in Master and Bachelor degree courses in Telecommunications Engineering and Computer Science: Linear Systems · Systems and Circuits · Computational Perception · Digital Signal Processing Applications · Multimedia · Digital Image Processing · Video Systems Engineering · Applications of Speech, Audio, Image and Video Processing · Multimedia Content Processing Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/01 - 2022/02 Fuzzy Sets and Systems Elsevier
2020/09 - 2020/09 Electronics Letters (1350-911X) The Institution of Engineering and Technology
2012 - 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Letters (1558-2361) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2015/09 - 2015/10 IEEE Intelligent Systems (1941-1294) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2012/10 - 2013/07 Speech Communication (0167-6393) Elsevier
2013/02 - 2013/04 Signal, Image and Video Processing (1863-1711) Springer-Verlag
2012/08 - 2012/09 IET Communications (1751-8636) The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/08 - 2021/08 Member of the evaluation committee, subject Introduction to the Research in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST-Universidade de Lisboa Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/02 Member of the evaluation committee of two research projects, subject Research Topics, Doutoramento em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores, IST-Universidade de Lisboa Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2007 - 2014 Member of the evaluation committee of 30 M.Sc. and B.Sc. theses, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Distinctions

Award

2012 2012 best paper award of the Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology (Red Temática en Tecnologías del Habla) for work published in international indexed journals
Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology (Red Temática en Tecnologías del Habla), Spain

Title

2012 Accreditation as Profesor Ayudante Doctor (Assistant Professor)
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación, Spain

Other distinction

2023 Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, 2023 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2022 Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, 2022 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)