Ph.D. in Biochemistry and passionate about computer science, he has been linked to the University since 1.994. He has been Lecturer in UCM, UC3M and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, where he is now Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence. He has made compatible for fifteen years his university profile with his work in Consulting and Software Development companies (Indra and Telefonica Data, among others), involved in more than 20 R&D projects mainly in Artificial Intelligence (11 of them in European Programs), leading National and European teams and directing development and innovation departments. He has also been appointed as external consultant by the European Commission for several Research Framework Programs (FP5 and 6).
As a researcher, he started doing mathematical modeling of biological systems. Now his areas of interest are bio-inspired computing (neurocomputing, evolutionary computation), philosophy of AI and serious games. Since 2007 he heads CEIEC, a Research Institute of the UFV for technological innovation with a social accent. He has produced several serious games for transmission of educational and cultural content and integration of people with Intellectual Disabilities. He is also full member of the Academia Española de las Artes y las Ciencias Interactivas. His current work is focused on neural models, deep learning techniques and their applications in several fields. He especially contributes to the practice of eHealth and social care by exploiting massive biomedical data for remote care, diagnostic and optimization.
You can reach him at room 2.10 in Building H (Pozuelo de Alarcón Campus) and in LinkedIn, ResearchGate and Google Scholar