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  GARCIA RODRIGUEZ, JOSE

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GARCIA RODRIGUEZ, JOSE

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Position:
CATEDRATICO/A DE UNIVERSIDAD
Dept.
Institutes:
I.U. INVESTIGACION INFORMATICA
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Academic background

  • DOCTORADO EN INGENIERÍA INFORMÁTICA Y COMPUTACIÓN CIENTÍFICA
    Centro de Estudios de Doctorado y Posgrado (05/06/2009)
  • Doctor Ingeniero en Informática
    Universidad de Alicante (05/06/2009)
  • Ingeniero en Informática
    Escuela Politécnica Superior de Alicante. Universidad de Alicante (30/07/1996)
  • Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Sistemas
    Escuela Politécnica Superior de Alicante. Universidad de Alicante (27/10/1994)

José García Rodríguez obtained a degree in Computer Engineering, as well as a PhD in Artificial Vision from the University of Alicante in 1994 and 2009 respectively. He is currently full professor at the University of Alicante, within the department of Informatics and Computing. His main research lines are focused computer vision, computational intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, robotics, man-machine interfaces, ambient intelligence, computational chemistry, and parallel and multicore architectures. He has authored +200 publications in top journals like TPAMI, ASOC, ESWA, NCAA, Neurocomputing, etc, and top conferences like WCCI, ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, IROS, among other. He is Director of Phd Program in Computer Science University of Alicante and Vicedean of International Relations at the Polytechnic University College.

In the last years he has participated and lead more than 20 regional/national/international projects related to the previously mentioned lines of research, obtaining positive results in the advance of the proposed lines. He has supervised 10 doctoral theses, He has been Principal investigator since 2013 of three consecutive national project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness to improve the autonomy of people with acquired brain damage and dependent on their integration into society (DPI2013-40534-R), (TIN2016-76515-R) and (PID2019-104818RB-I00) using computer vision, virtual reality and deep learning techniques.

In the international facet, he has made stays in the University of Westminster and in Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom, and Griffith University in Brisbane (Australia), participated in organizing and program committees of many conferences with special presence in WCCI, having organized special sessions since 2010 and being chair of special sessions and publicity in 2015 and 2018 editions. He has organized special issues on computational intelligence applied to Vision and Robotics in JCR magazines as Neural Processing Letters, Neural Computing and Applications, Complexity, Expert Systems, etc. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing and Associate Editor of Expert System Journal. He is senior member of organizations such as IEEE or INNS. He is a member of European networks of excellence in cognitive robotics such as Eucog European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics, or in high-performance computing such as HIPEAC, European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation and ELLIS, European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems. He is also a member of the European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net) ICT COST Action IC1307.