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	Sastre Martínez, Jorge jorsasma@www.iteam.upv.es 0034 96387 9719	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering at the UPV with First class Honors (1997), the Regional Government Award and 2nd National Award. Lecturer at the UPV School of Telecommunication since 1998. Music Diploma by Conservatory Joaquin Rodrigo of Valencia (2000). PhD in Mathematics Cum Laude at UPV (2003). Advanced Studies in Music Composition by the Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) studying Computer Music with Roger Dannenberg and composition. He received prior training in electronic and electroacoustic music and computer music with A. Núñez, G. Jiménez and L. Amigo, in composition with D. Baixauli, M. Sotelo, J.M. Sánchez Verdú and A. Posadas, and music for audiovisuals and jazz. In 2013 he received a scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science for research in music technology at the computer music group led by Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interests are music technology, video processing and matrix functions and their applications. He has directed 13 research projects and is the author of more than 50 publications in international journals and conferences (http://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=es&user=Gls8MJwAAAAJ). He is the founder and coordinator of the UPV International Post-Graduate Courses in Composition, he is part of the academic committee of the Master of Music from the UPV, where he is responsible for the subject Electronic Technology and Contemporary Music, and he is the founding director of the UPV Graduate Program in Electronic and Electroacoustic Music, Interactivity and Video Creation.

	Soto Pacheco, Pablo pabsopac@dcom.upv.es 34963879195	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Pablo Soto (S'01-M'06) was born in 1975 in Cartagena, Spain. He received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree (cum Laude) in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in 1999 and 2012, respectively. In 2000, he joined the Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where he is Associate Professor since 2012. He was an EU research fellow with the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC-ESA), Noordwijk, the Netherlands in 2000. His research interests comprise numerical methods for the analysis, synthesis, and fully automated design of passive components in waveguide and planar technologies, the development and design of novel hardware for satellite applications, and high-power RF effects. Dr. Soto received the 2000 and 2012 COIT/AEIT national awards to the best Master Thesis and best Ph.D Thesis, respectively. He is also the co-recipient of the 2013 Gheorghe Cartianu Award of the Acadamia Romana.

	Torres Carot, Vicente vtorres@eln.upv.es +34 96 3877007	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Vicente Torres Carot works as an Associate Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. He graduated as a Telecommunications Engineer at the UPV in 1994 and in 2001 he was awarded with the Doctor of Engineering (phD) degree, from the same University. He is currently a member of the Institute for Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), an investigation corporation integrated in the UPV. His research work is focused on digital signal processing in electronic devices. This Associate Professor has contributed to more than 50 papers in renowned technical journals and conferences. He has been an active member of more than ten financially-aided research projects.

	Valero Noguiera, Alejandro avalero@dcom.upv.es 963879715	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	Alejandro Valero-Nogueira was born in Madrid, Spain on July 19, 1965. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain in 1997. In 1992, he joined the Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where he is currently an Associate Professor. During 1999, he was on leave at the ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, where he was involved in fast solution methods in electromagnetics and conformal antenna arrays. His current research interests include computational electromagnetics, slotted waveguide arrays and gap waveguides.

	Valls Coquillat, Javier jvalls@eln.upv.es 34 96 284 9418	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Javier Valls received the telecommunication engineering degree from the Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, in 1993 and 1999, respectively. He is with the Department of Electronics at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, since 1993, where he currently is an Associate Professor. His current research interests include the design of FPGA-based systems, computer arithmetic, VLSI signal processing, and digital communications.

	Vergara Domínguez, Luis lvergara@dcom.upv.es +34 96 3877304	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	Luis Vergara Domínguez es Ingeniero de Telecomunicación (1980) y Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicación (1983) por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Ha sido Profesor Titular del Departamento de Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones de dicha Universidad desde 1983 a 1992. Desde 1993 es Catedrático de Universidad del Departamento de Comunicaciones de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Ha sido director de dicho Departamento durante el periodo 1993-2004 y posteriormente Vicerrector de Nuevas Tecnologías durante 2004-05. Ha sido coordinador del área de Tecnologías de la Información de la Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP) desde 1996 a 1999 y Presidente del Comité Asesor del campo 6.2 de la Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora (CNEAI 2012-14).Actualmente es responsable del Grupo de Tratamiento de Señal del Instituto de Telecomunicaciones y Aplicaciones Multimedia de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Sus líneas de investigación se centran en la teoría y aplicación del tratamiento digital de señales y, más en particular, en el tratamiento estadístico. Actualmente sus ámbitos teóricos de interés se centran en algorítmica para la detección y clasificación de eventos, incluyendo la fusión de detectores y clasificadores. Dicha algorítmica es aplicada en problemáticas muy diversas, tales como la el control de calidad de procesos industriales, la monitorización acústica de entornos, los sistemas de vigilancia multimodales (video, infrarrojo, sonido,…) y la detección de fraudes en transacciones bancarias. Ha publicado 52 artículos en revistas internacionales indexadas en el Journal Citation Report, 5 capítulos de libros de editorial internacional y más de 130 comunicaciones en congresos internacionales. Es coautor de 6 patentes. Ha dirigido 14 tesis doctorales. Ha participado en numerosos proyectos competitivos nacionales e internacionales y en contratos de transferencia tecnológica.

	Vico Bondia, Felipe felipe.vico@gmail.com	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Felipe Vico-Bondia was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1981. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, in 2004 and 2009, respectively, and the M.S. degree in mathematics from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Valencia, in 2009. From 2004 to 2005, he was with the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) as a Research Assistant. During 2006 to 2007, he was on leave at the Instituto Superiore Mario Boella, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where he developed hybrid techniques for high frequency EM scattering problems. Since 2007, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Communications Engineering Department, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where he is currently working. His research interests include numerical methods applied to scattering and radiation problems, asymptotic techniques, hybridization of high frequency and numerically rigorous methods and fast computational techniques applied to electromagnetics. Dr. Vico-Bondia was awarded a Research Fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Culture for 2005 to 2006. In 2006 he received the “Best Conference Paper Award” at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation.

	Vidal Pantaleoni, Ana avidal@dcom.upv.es	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Ana Vidal Pantaleoni was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1970. She graduated in 1993 Telecommunication Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. During 1993 she was at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) through the international exchange program Erasmus. In 1993 she joined the Polytechnic University of Valencia as Assistant Professor. During 1995 and 1996 enjoyed a Spanish Trainee at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk (Netherlands), where she worked on the study and implementation of a program to image processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). In 1996 she joined back to the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where she held various places, and is currently Lecturer. His current research focuses on remote sensing image classification, SAR image processing and numerical methods based on wavelet transform for the analysis of microwave structures.