RESEARCH

 

Ph. Doctor degree

Neural networks for the estimation of 'a posteriori' probabilities: architectures and algorithms (2001)

Granted by an FPI fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture, under supervision of Prof. Jesús Cid-Sueiro.

 

Master Science degree

Algorithm for Power Calculus of Electromagnetic Fields in Urban Areas (1996)

Granted by IBERDROLA Inc. inside the Consortium for Education Development between the Technical School of Engineering of the Universitiy of Valladolid and IBERDROLA Inc. under supervision of Prof. Ángel María Bravo Santos, from the School of Engineering and senior advisor engineers Mr. Pedro Blanco and Mr. Carlos Conde, from the Communications Dep. in IBERDROLA Inc.., MADRID, SPAIN.

 

Grants

    1. Research Personal Grant (Formación de Personal Investigador, F.P.I. , in Spanish): grant from the Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain, under CICYT research project TIC96-0500-C10-09 entitled The Application of Natural Process based Algorithms to Prediction, Estimation and Communications at the Univ. of Valladolid, January 1997-February 1999, Valladolid, SPAIN.
    2. Grant under the Consortium for Development of a Cooperation in Education Program between Univ. of Valladolid and IBERDROLA Inc. in the M. Sc. degree, years 1995-1996, financed by the School of Engineering, University of Valladolid.
    3. Grant for practice working in TELEFÓNICA ESPAÑA, in the Commuting and Transmission Depts. , sponsored by the Government of the Junta de Castilla and León, July-September 1996 , Valladolid, Spain.

 

First Financed Project

Project Title: Application of Natural Process based Algorithms to Prediction, Estimation and Communications

Location: School of Telecommunications Engineering, Dep. of Electrical Engineering, Communications and Computer Science, University of Valladolid, Valladolid.

Project grant number: CICYT, TIC96-0500-C10-09. Financed by the Science and Technology Interministerial Commission (CICYT).

Dates: November 1996 till June 1998

Researcher in charge: Prof. Jesús Cid-Sueiro

 

Stays abroad

1) Stay in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, in the Information Technology Lab.. under the supervision of Prof. Tulay Adali , September-December 1998.

 

2) Stay in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Maryland, Baltimore , Maryland, USA, in the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Lab. under the supervision of Prof. Tulay Adali, June-July 2009.

 

3) Stay in the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology of the Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, under the supervision of Dr. Stephen L. Macknik, March-August 2010.

 

Research topics

Research interests include expert systems, neural networks and their applications to medical image: statistical signal processing, machine learning, estimation theory, medical diagnose did