Brief Biography:
Sergio Escalera received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He obtained the P.h.D. degree on Multi-class visual categorization systems at Computer Vision Center, UAB. He obtained the 2008 best Thesis award on informatics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is a lecturer of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis, Universitat de Barcelona. He is a partial time professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He is a member of the Perceptual Computing Group and a consolidated research group of Catalonia. He is also a member of the International Foundation of Research & Analysis. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Convergence Section C: Web and Multimedia. His research interests include, between others, machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, visual object recognition, and human computer interaction systems, with special interest in human pose recovery/behavior analysis and biomedical engineering.
Academic positions:
Associate lecturer - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2003-2004
Assistant lecturer - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2004-2006
Collaborating lecturer - Universitat de Barcelona
2007-2008
Collaborating PhD lecturer - Universitat de Barcelona
2008-2009
Associate lecturer - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
2007- to date
Lecturer - Universitat de Barcelona
2009-2013
Researcher - Computer Vision Centre
2003- to date
Project Manager - Computer Vision Centre
Research in Artificial Intelligence
2008- to date
Researcher - Consolidated Research Group (Generalitat de Catalunya)
2009-2013
Researcher - BCN Perceptual Computing Lab group
2009- to date
Researcher - International Foundation of Research & Analysis
2010- to date
Research interests:
His research interests include, between others, machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, visual object recognition, and human computer interaction systems, with special interest in human pose recovery/behavior analysis and biomedical engineering.
Any other information:
I attach my reduced CV for further details.
What I think of the idea behind WebmedCentral:
Very interesting platform for publishing in Biomedical Publication, which combines several disciplines and high quality members.
Home Page:
http://www.maia.ub.es/~sergio/index.html