Coordinator
Sancho Salcedo Sanz
Sancho Salcedo-Sanz received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2002, and in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in 2019. Currently, he is Full Professor at the Department of Signal Processing and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.
He has co-authored over 240 articles in scientific journals, in the topic of Machine Learning and Soft-Computing techniques, with very different applications, in atmospheric and climate-related problems, renewable energy, environmental problems or Telecommunications Systems design, among others. His main research interests are related to the development of Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms, Soft-Computing techniques and their applications to problems in Science and Engineering.
Members
José Antonio Portilla Figueras
J. Antonio Portilla-Figueras was born in Santander, Spain, in 1976. He received the B.S. degree (1999), and the Ph.D. degree (2004) in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Cantabria, Spain. He is currently a Full Professor at the department of Signal Theory and Communications and has been the Dean of the Polytechnic
Antonio Portilla-Figueras is member of the Governing Board of the National Professional Telecommunication Association since 2018, and he has worked as judicial expert for several companies. He has been the Director of the Business Sponsored Chair of the Fundación Vodafone in the University of Alcalá and now he is the Director of the ISDEFE-UAH Observatory in ICT and Digital Advance working in 5G related issues for Spanish National Telecommunication Office of the Economy Ministry. He is also the Director of the Business Sponsored Chair Correos-UAH for innovation on logistics.
Antonio Portilla was a vocal member of the EUR-ACE Accreditation Commission at the National Quality Accreditation and Evaluation Agency (ANECA) during the period 2016-2022 and is currently the President of the EUR-ACE Appealing Commission.
Enrique Alexandre Cortizo
Enrique Alexandre is Associate Professor at the Signal Theory and Communications Department of the University of Alcalá. He obtained his MSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo (1999) and the PhD for the same University (2004). As a postdoc, he worked as Assistant Professor at the University
of Vigo, and later as Interim Associate Professor at the University of Alcalá until 2010, when he obtained his tenure. He is Vice Dean of the Polytechnic School of Universidad de Alcalá since november 2022.
Enrique Alexandre has authored more than 30 papers in international journals and books besides a good number of conferences, both national and international. He has supervised 1 PhD thesis and more than 30 Master’s Thesis. Regarding research awards, he has received the Award from the Social Council of the University of Alcalá for the transfer of knowledge University-Society, in 2008, which is the most important award given by the University of Alcalá to Research groups.
Enrique Alexandre has participated in more than 45 research projects, being 14 of them regional, 7 national, 2 international and 24 with private companies. In 7 of these projects he worked as Principal Investigator (IP). As a result of some of these projects a number of commercial products have been made available, and also a patent. His current research interests include machine learning and soft computing algorithms applied to different problems such as sound processing and renewable energies.
Jorge Pérez-Aracil
Jorge Pérez-Aracil is an Assistant Professor at Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. He received the Degree in Civil Engineering in 2013, the MSc degree in Civil Engineering in 2015, and the MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence in 2022. He was awarded with a Ph.D. scholarship from the College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences,
to do the thesis at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He obtained the Ph. D. degree in 2021. After his thesis, he worked as postdoctoral researcher at University of Alcalá. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is the author of more than 20 research papers related with the application of Artificial Intelligence to different problems of Engineering and Science. He is working on different research projects related to the application of Artificial Intelligence applied to a wide variety of engineering problems. His main research interest is the application and development of Machine Learning and Deep Learning models to different problems of Engineering and Science.
Laura María Cornejo Bueno
Laura Cornejo-Bueno is a Ph.D. Assistant professor in the University of Alcalá (Madrid). Doctor Cum Laude by the University of Alcalá in 2018, recognized with the extraordinary doctorate award of the University of Alcalá (2019), her research activity has been focused on the development of different algorithms and techniques
belonging to Artificial Intelligence field and their application to different problems in Science and Engineering, especially in those related to renewable energy problems. She has authored/co-authored 18 international indexed journals (12 Q1, 5 Q2 and 1 Q3) and more than 8 conferences papers, including invited talks and workshops.
Alberto Palomo Alonso
Alberto Palomo Alonso was born in 1998 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, in 2020 and 2022, respectively. He has worked on several artificial intelligence and optimization problems. He has also participated in projects related to blockchain and
embedded systems oriented to telecommunications and other signal processing projects. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing at the department of Signal Processing and Communications of Universidad de Alcalá. His current main interests are related to the development of Machine Learning, hybrid, statistics and RL algorithms, and their applications in Natural Language Processing and other fields of Technology and Science.
César Peláez Rodríguez
César Peláez-Rodríguez was born in Valladolid, Spain, in 1996. He received the B.S degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad of Valladolid, Spain, in 2018, and the MSc degree in Industrial Engineering in 2021. In January 2022, César started his PhD, granted by the Spanish Education Ministry in the frame of a national programme (FPI grant),
in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications of the University of Alcalá. Being focused on the development of Machine and Deep Learning algorithms for the prediction of meteorological events and other non-deterministic phenomena. Although it has recently embarked on research activities, he has already participated in various international conferences and has published 6 journal papers.
Gabriel Matos Cardoso Leite
Gabriel Matos Cardoso Leite was born in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Systems Engineering and Computer Science from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2017 and 2019, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Systems and Computing
Department. He is currently working at the department of Signal Processing and Communications of Universidad de Alcalá, where he carries out research on optimization and machine learning techniques. His current main research interests are related to the development of machine learning, reinforcement learning, single and multi-objective optimization algorithms, and their applications to engineering problems, especially in those associated with renewable energy and smart grids. He has authored/co-authored 6 papers in international indexed journals (4 Q1 and 2 Q2) and 2 conference papers.
Eugenio Lorente Ramos
Eugenio Lorente Ramos was born in the year 2000 in Guadalajara, Spain. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Universidad de Alcalá and a Masters degree on Science and Technology in Space. He is a PhD student on Universidad de Alcalá studying machine learning algorithms for detection and prediction of extreme weather events.
and his main lines of research are metaheuristic optimization, hyperheursitics, machine learning and deep learning applied to climate extreme detection. He also has good programming skills in a variety of programming languages including python, C/C++, Java etc.
Cosmin M. Marina
Cosmin Mădălin Marina was born in 1999, in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, in 2022, and a M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Research from UNED, Spain, in 2024. Likewise, he is working at the department of Signal Processing and Communications of Universidad de Alcalá,
where he is currently carrying out his PhD in Development of Machine Learning algorithms for Extreme Climate Events. His current research interests are concerned with the development of new machine learning, rule learning, ensembles, heuristics and evolutionary computation, multi-modal optimization, and interpretability techniques and algorithms, and especially their applications to extreme climate events detection.
Luis Miguel Moreno Saavedra
Luis Miguel Moreno Saavedra was born in 1995 in Alcalá de Henares. He received the B.S. (with Extraordinary Award) and M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, in 2020 and 2022, respectively. He is currently employed by the department of Signal Processing and Communications at Universidad de Alcalá,
where he is pursuing the Ph.D. in Information and Communications Technologies. His primary research focus is the development of novel metaheuristic algorithms for optimization in logistics and renewable energies. He is also engaged in research on machine learning and deep learning algorithms, with the objective of developing hybridized optimization models.
Silvia Fábregues Pons
Silvia Fábregues Pons was born in 2001, in Menorca, Spain. She received a B.S. degree in Criminalistics: Forensic Sciences and Technologies from Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, in 2023, and a M.S. degree in Police Sciences from Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, in 2024. She is a researcher at Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Policiales
of Universidad de Alcalá, which depends on Universidad de Alcalá and State Secretary for Security of the Spanish Interior Ministry and collaborates with Spanish Police Forces. She is currently carrying out research on Machine and Deep Learning algorithms to apply them in the characterization of bullet impacts, in the department of Signal Processing and Communications of Universidad de Alcalá.
Collaborators
Vinicius Garcia Silva da Costa
Vinicius Garcia Costa was born in 1997 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received a B.S. degree (Magna cum Laude) in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2019, where he has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence at the Systems and Computing Department since 2020. He is currently doing a 1-year
doctoral stay in the Department of Signal Processing and Communications in Universidad de Alcalá, where he is doing research on metaheuristics and machine learning. His main research interests include computational intelligence applications, interpretable AI, reinforcement learning, and meta-heuristics.
Dušan Fister
Dušan Fister was born in 1993 in Slovenia. He received B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D in years 2015, 2017 and 2022, all from University of Maribor, Slovenia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty of Economics and Business. During his Ph.D. he attended a one year research stay at University of
Alcalá and numerous shorter-time visits at University of Cantabria, both Spain. He managed to publish 30 scientific articles and more than 25 conference articles. His current focuses encompass control theory, artificial intelligence with deep learning for applications, climate analysis and prediction, data science and econometrics, and intelligent systems.