Bio

Gema Piñero (Ms. Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ‘90; Ph.D. Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ’97) was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1965. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Since 1992 she has worked in private and public-funding projects on different research topics: array signal processing, adaptive algorithms for active noise control, mobile communications and sound quality. She is part of the Audio and Communications Signal Processing (GTAC) group of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) of Valencia. She has published more than 70 contributions in relevant journals and conferences on the area. Her current research focuses on acoustic networks and their applications. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011) and the Imperial College (2016). She is a senior member of the IEEE and founding member of the Spanish Association for Research and Teaching UNIVERSITAS.