Bio

Alicia María Abad García was born in Valencia, Spain in 1986. She obtained her M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering by Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2011. She received a Erasmus grant for Karlsruher Insitut für Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany, where she realized her Master Thesis at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (IOSB), in association with the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications of the UPV. The title of the Master Thesis was Evaluation of HOF-Features for Moving Person Detection for Security Applications. In July 2012 she joined the Mobile Communications Group at the iTeam Research Institute, where she works as a technician.