VIVOLAB - Key Persons

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• Member of the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research

Alfonso Ortega is member of the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research in the School of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain). He was born in Teruel, Spain and received the Telecommunication Engineering and the Ph. D. degrees from the University of Zaragoza in 2000 and 2005, respectively. His Ph. D. Thesis, advised by Dr. Eduardo Lleida, received the PhD Extraordinary Award and the Telefónica Chair Award to the best technological Ph. D. In 2006 he was visiting scholar in the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS) of the University of Texas at Dallas, UTD, (USA). He has participated in more than 25 research projects funded by national or international public institutions and more than 15 research projects for private companies. He is author of more than 50 papers published in international journals or conference proceedings and several international patents. He is presently Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications at the University of Zaragoza. His research interests span the areas of digital speech processing, speech enhancement, analysis and modeling of speech and speaker traits, automatic speaker verification, and robust automatic speech recognition. research team in speech recognition and signal processing.

Antonio Miguel was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Zaragoza (UZ), Zaragoza, Spain, in 2001 and 2008, respectively. From 2000 to 2006, he was with the Communication Technologies Group, Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications, UZ, under a research grant. Since 2006, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications, UZ. His current research interests include acoustic modeling for speech and speaker recognition.

Luis Vicente was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, in 1996 and 2005, respectively. He is an Assistant Professor of Signal Processing and Communications in the Department of Electronics Engineering and Communications at the School of Engineering and Architecture, and Researcher of the Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), both of the University of Zaragoza. His current research interests are in the field of adaptive signal processing and neural networks, in particular, applied to fields such as active noise and vibration control, vehicular technologies, robust human-machine oral interfaces, and distributed acoustic sensing.

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• Categorías Former Member, Team

Pablo Gimeno was born in Valencia, Spain (1994). He received the Bachelor degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the Master degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Spain in the years 2016 and 2018 respectively. He is currently pursuing his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Alfonso Ortega. His research interests span the areas of audio and speech processing, audio segmentation, speech activity detection and machine learning applied to audio processing. So far, part of his work has been published to different international conferences and prestigious peer-reviewed journals. He also collaborates actively in teaching courses related to signal processing for the Bachelor degree in Telecommunication Engineering (Audio & Image Processing, Signal Processing laboratory) and the Master degree in Telecommunication Engineering (Speech Technologies).

Victoria Mingote was born in Zaragoza, Spain. She received the Bachelor's and Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 2014 and 2016, respectively. After that, she joined ViVoLab research group as a Ph.D student. She received the Ph.D. degree in 2022 from the University of Zaragoza. She has achieved several publications of her work in different international journals and conference proceedings. Her research interests expands through the areas of signal processing, machine learning, multimodal verification and identification (voice and face), and language identification.