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About DTIC

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Key Figures

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About UPF

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DTIC Research

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DTIC Education: Undergraduate studies

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DTIC People: Faculty & Research

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Outreach activities

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DTIC External Advisory Board

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DTIC Alumni

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DTIC Office Directory

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Barcelona

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Our Faculty members

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About

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The Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) was created at the beginning of the XXI century with the mission of becoming a leading department generating frontier research and advanced training at the crossroads of computational and intelligent systems, multimedia technologies, computational biology and biomedical systems, networks and communications and brain and cognition.

Social computing

Medical Image

Neuroscience

Immersive Comunications Wireless Networks Information Teory

Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Education

Interactive Technologies Reasoning

Blockchain Ubiquitous Computing Image Processing Computer Vision Cryptography

Natural Language Processing Computational Biology

Music Technologies Signal Processing

Cognition Computational Cardiology Perception

Advanced Graphics Biomedical Electronics

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It integrates computer science, biomedical and electrical / telecoms engineering and data science, with research groups with a consolidated international trajectory

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It features within its structure a center on brain and cognition

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It is an engineering department within a non-polytechnic university, where it sits alongside sister departments on social and natural sciences

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There are three attributes that make DTIC unique within the Spanish academic landscape:

In 2015, DTIC was the first university ICT department to receive the seal of “Maria de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence for the period 2016-2020. Nowadays, it is the first university ICT department to renew the “Maria de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence seal (20232026). This programme is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness with the aim of promoting the quality of Spanish scientific research by recognising the best units that stand out for the relevance and impact of their research, at international level.

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Despite its short history, DTIC is already recognized for its high-quality research output and international impact (see Key Figures, page 10).

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Vladimir Estivill

In this pursuit for knowledge, research and innovation are crucial. We, as engineers, seek that this knowledge benefits our world and our environment, meeting sustainability requirements and generating well-being for all living creatures. We deploy applications that solve problems because we aim to enhance the quality of life and the available opportunities for all.

We are at the point of confluence of two revolutions. The world is becoming increasingly digital, integrating technology from digitalisation in all aspects of society. We are also seeing a change to attain a sustainable world. Our department seeks to archive high caliber research outcomes by promoting advances in Engineering, Technology, Intelligence and Cognition.

However, with the mandate that the derived applications are not only of high impact but aligned with our university’s Planetary Wellbeing initiative and the 17 UN global sustainable development goals. This brochure shows how we aim to question whether we could improve what is considered best practice, how we are moving forward with our research and how we hope to transform what is in the sphere of our influence.

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Universities, like museums, aim to spread knowledge. Also, like a museum, we seek to preserve that knowledge. However, perhaps additional responsibilities are to ensure that such knowledge is indeed of the highest quality, obtained by the most rigorous means, reproducible and the result of the most heightened scrutiny and academic debate.

Thus, we continuously generate knowledge.

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Key Figures

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Leading in Research

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Permanent faculty members, highly international

are of international origin

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obtained their PhD abroad

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ICREA1 Research professors

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journal articles (2017-mid 2021)

in Q1 top-ranked field-specific journals and in reputed interdisciplinary journals

The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) offers permanent tenured positions at Catalan host institutions to top researchers from around the world

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Private funding Robust relations with private national and international foundations, i.e.

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Robust relationships with industry international companies, i.e.

UPF Business Chairs

Industrial doctoral students, i.e.

Publicly funded research projects, i.e.

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Membership of

DTIC features Fellows of an extensive number of international professional societies, i.e.

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Prices & Awards International Young Talent Outstanding Young Researcher, i.e.

Best VHPi PhD Thesis Award

Best Paper Award, i.e.

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National Prize in Computer Science

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Best paper awards at conferences such as

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doctoral students

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Our Young Research Community

41% female

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Industrial Doctoral students

Algeria | Belgium | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Bulgaria | Canada | Chile | South Korea Croatia | Holland | Hungary | Ireland | Israeli | New Zealand | Peru | Portugal | Singapore United Arab Emirates | Libia | Egypt | Indonesia | Nigeria | Cambodja | Uruguay | Lithuania | Cyprus | Cuba Brazil | China | Morocco | Pakistan | United Kingdom | Srilanka | Sudan | Switzerland | Ukraine Austria | Ecuador | United States of America | Mexico | Romania | Russia | Venezuela | Argentina Colombia | Iran | Poland | Turkey | Germany | Greece | India | France | Italy | Spain

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International DTIC PhD students from all over the world

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About UPF

Spanish university (Times Higher Education, 2023)

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University in Spain (U-Multirank 2022)

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Worldwide Young University

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(Times Higher Education - under 50 years old, 2023)

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in Europe (U-Multirank 2022)

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Founded in 1990, UPF is a young public university based in Barcelona that is highly competitive in research and aims to transform education to respond to future challenges.

In little more than three decades of history, it has earned a place among the best universities in Europe.

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Laia de Nadal

UPF’s main goal and reason for being is the creation of knowledge and its transmission (through education) and transfer to society.

Our activity must improve the well-being of people, both locally and globally, and of the planet, reducing inequality in keeping with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN’s 2030 Agenda.

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Rector of Universitat Pompeu Fabra

UPF enjoys a solid national and international reputation and has managed to establish itself as a global university benchmark in many different fields of knowledge

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From the start, UPF has been an urban university, closely connected to the city of Barcelona, its activity aligned with the interests of society, its institutions, and its inhabitants. It conducts this activity in eight disciplines, spread out across three campuses located in the city centre.

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DTIC Research

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Boris Bellalta

DTIC has a research community of over 300 members grouped among 23 research groups. The department has a highly interdisciplinary research environment with faculty interests covering a broad range of topics that can be grouped into five research areas.

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DTIC’s interdisciplinary approach to research offers the perfect environment to push the limits of our current knowledge as a society toward -sometimes- yet unknown directions.

Moreover, we build our excellent research track on a combination of world-class faculty members with an exclusive Ph.D. program, with more than 30 Ph.D. students joining every year, further contributing to this unique environment.

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DTIC Deputy Director of Research, Technology Transfer and PhD

“Lands of Fog”,by the Full-Body Interaction Lab

The Web Science and Social Computing group studies algorithmic fairness, particularly in artificial intelligence decision support systems.

Illustration by Unbabel.

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Robotics-AI Lab by the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research group

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Computation & Intelligent Systems

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This area concerns itself with theoretical and applied issues related to the development of technologies that can mimic the intelligent behavior of humans as well as augment/ complement it. Multiple paradigms, perspectives, and disciplines are integrated.

Artificial intelligence Computer Vision

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Foundations of Computer Science

Natural Language Processing Ubiquitous computing

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Web science & social computing

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Audiovisual Technologies OUTPUT Fusion (Jazz) Jazz-Rock (Jazz) Prog Rock (Rock) Jazz-Funk (Jazz)

Contemporary Jazz (Jazz) Free Funk (Funk/Soul) Funk (Funk/Soul) Psychedelic Rock (Rock) Soul (Funk/Soul) free Jazz (Jazz)

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Music style classification with Essentia by Music Technology research Group.

Automatic analysis of sports videos by the Intelligent Multimodal Vision Analysis research group.

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EVA - DTIC Virtual Assistant by the Interactive Technologies and Natural Language Processing Technologies research groups

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Sight and sound being the two primary modalities that humans use to interface with machines, this area encompasses basic and applied research on all aspects of image, video, speech and audio technology (acquisition, enhancement, classification, recognition, reproduction) as well as human-computer interaction.

Sound & Music computing Computer Vision, Multimodal Vision Analysis

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Human-Computer interaction

3D Graphics, Augmented Reality

Music Technology Group Seal for Excellence in Technology Transfer granted by the Catalan Government

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Educational Technologies

Scam detection of cryptocurrencies by Wireless & Secure Communications (WiSeCom) Research Group https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07220

Wi-Fi All Channel Analyzer (WACA) Tool

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Measuring Wi-Fi activity at the Camp Nou stadium (FC Barcelona) using WACA, Wireless Networking research group https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9431669

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Networks & Communications

Wireless Networks Immersive Communications

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The scope of this area ranges from information theory, wireless communications, network security, and networking, where the foundations of future wireless technologies are explored, to the development of practical solutions to further improve the operation of current networks, including management, resource allocation, and security.

Information Theory and Coding Cybersecurity

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Network Technologies policy aspects and Strategies

Implantable microstimulators developed by the Biomedical Electronics Research Group.

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H2020 Project SIMCARDIOTEST - atrial fibrillation by the PhySense research group.

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Computational Biology & Biomedical Systems

Simulation system for foetal surgery, SIMBIOsys research group https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9067025

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Multiscale modelling of the knee joint biological systems in osteoarthritis: from patient motion, to articular cartilage cell biology (Biomechanics & Mechanobiology, SIMBIOsys). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469753/

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This area focuses on integrating engineering, physics, and mathematics knowledge with physiology and clinical medicine in order to provide an interdisciplinary research environment where the advance in clinical sciences is supported by the theoretical basis and methods of engineering.

Medical Imaging & Modeling of biomedical systems

Visual analytics and interfaces in biomedical applications

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Analysis of biomedical data

Instrumentation & biomedical electronics

Nonlinear Signal Analysis and Dynamics of Biological Systems BCN MedTech Seal for Excellence in Technology Transfer granted by the Catalan Government

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Biomechanics & Systems Mechanobiology

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Brain & Cognition

Effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex by Speech Acquisition and Perception research group. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/47/16597

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Brain model of functional dynamics by the Computational Neuroscience research group. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01003-6/figures/1

Computational Neuroscience

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This area is characterized by the use of mathematical, computational, experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience approaches to address the human brain and behavior. It seeks to advance our understanding of how experience influences the emergence of behavior and brain function through computational and experimental investigation. The Brain and Cognition area is currently composed of six research groups covering the following topics.

Speech acquisition & perception, Language cognition Theoretical & Cognitive neuroscience Multisensory Processes

Comparative Cognition

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Infant Reasoning, Cognition

Research Labs and Facilities DTIC houses cutting-edge infrastructures (computing, robotics, sensors, audiovisual equipment) and experimentation with human subjects. These facilities are complemented by links with hospitals and external infrastructures.

ROBOTICS LAB

MOTION CAPTURE LAB

BIOMEDICAL ELECTRONICS LAB

COGNITIVE NEUROCIENCE LAB

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MUSIC TECHNOLOGY LAB

IMMERSIVE AUDIO 3D

HPC HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

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FULL BODY INTERACTION LAB

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DTIC PhD Program

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Approximately 30 PhD thesis are defended every year 2021 data: 173 Doctoral students, 41% female, +60% of international origin, 16% are Industrial PhDs

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Recent awards to researchers under training include: Award for the best PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), Best PhD thesis from Spanish Society for NLP, Google Women Techmakers award, Best VPHi PhD Thesis Award in in silico medicine

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Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship for talented African female students launched in 2018 to promote gender equality and contribute to future social impact in African countries

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Master Programs

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Master in Sound and Music Computing Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media Master in Intelligent Interactive Systems Master in Computational Biomedical Engineering

Master in Computer Vision (in collaboration with Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Artificial Intelligence

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Master in Brain and Cognition

All fully in English Many international students (55%) Aligned with the department’s research interests

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Organized by DTIC @UPF in collaboration with Sapienza Univ., Radboud Univ., and Ljubljana Univ.

Scholarships available.

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DTIC Education: Undergraduate studies

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Oscar Cámara “We are committed to walk with our talented undergraduate students through their educational pathway, helping them to become the new generation of engineers, having an excellent theoretical basis, extensive practice in real-world applications, and transversal skills to lead the development of future technologies based on continuous research and innovation.”

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Engineering School Director

4-year Engineering Degrees Audiovisual Systems Engineering Biomedical Engineering Computer Science/Engineering Telecommunications Network Engineering Mathematical Engineering in Data Science +1000 students, 40% female students Possibility of simultaneous double degrees All degrees offer one track 100% in English from the first day.

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The activities of DTIC were initiated in 1999, with the start of the undergraduate studies in Computer Science at UPF. Since then, the Department has grown with the new programs in Telematics, Audiovisual Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and Data Science.

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DTIC People: Faculty & Research

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Horacio Saggion

“We are committed to bring to our department individuals in the broad area of engineering and technology who excel in teaching and research, offering them an environment where they can develop successful academic careers and contribute to society.”

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DTIC Deputy Director of Faculty & Recruitment

Federico Sukno

47 permanent faculty members 19 Full Professors - 13 Associate Professors - 10 ICREA Research Professors 5 Tenure Track - Lecturers A large research community blossoms with over 300 members Highly international

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DTIC Deputy Director of Teaching assignation

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Outreach activities

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Miquel Oliver DTIC Deputy Director of Communication & Promotion

DTIC Undergraduate Talent Scholarships. It is organized with the financial contributions of industry to award a prize to the best students coming to the first year undergraduate programmes DTIC prize to the best Baccalaureate Research projects Activities with school girls to promote engineering studies: collaboration with the initiative Oracle4Girls and others

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“At DTIC we do research that is highly valued by the academic community, but that is also very significant to society. It is our duty to reach out and communicate the relevance of our research to as many segments of society as possible. In doing so, we become a very desirable place for students to get their education, for researchers to develop their careers, and for companies to find a partner in their R+D efforts.”

Núria Sebastián

DTIC Academic Secretary “A great asset of our department consists in providing a very active, varied and multi-disciplinary research environment. At any given time there’s always some organized activity taking place, decisionmaking is constant and international communication is key in having an organic and engaging departmental community.”

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Activities to communicate our activities to high school students: Escolab

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DTIC External Advisory Board

“The DTIC has implemented several actions to enhance research, multi-disciplinary collaborations, education, and outreach. Research continues to be strong as also shown by new grants secured by members of DTIC as well as by the prestigious Maria de Maetzu grant.

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DTIC External Advisory Board was created with the objective to further increase excellence in teaching, research and society service activities and promote international recognition. The Board includes members from various outstanding institutions around the world.

EAB Review Report, October 2019

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Overall DTIC is continuing on a . path of academic excellence”

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Prof. Elisa Bertino Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University, Research Director of CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security)

Amazon Machine Learning Research and Development Center at Barcelona.

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PhD. Hugo Zaragoza

Prof. Alison Noble

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Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford

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PhD. Nuria Oliver Scientific Director and co-founder of ELLIS Alicante foundation. Chief Data Scientist in Data-Pop Alliance; Chief Scientific Advisor in Vodafone Institute

VP of AI Product Strategy, LinkedIn

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PhD. Xavier Amatriain

President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science

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Prof. David Harel

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DTIC Alumni

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“My time at DTIC and the Music Technology Group of UPF were formative years for me.

So much of what I lived there shaped me, both in terms of professional career and personal life. So much so, it always feels a bit like home when I visit.

Looking back, joining was one of the best decisions in my life”

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Fabien Gouyon

DTIC PhD 2005 Research Area: Multimedia Technologies Director of Research, Science and ML at SiriusXM / Pandora

Co-founder of Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies - BMAT (2005)

Principal scientist, Pandora, California (2014) Head of Research - Europe, Pandora (2018)

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Head of the Sound and Music Computing Group of the University of Porto (2007)

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“I remember my time at the UPF DTIC with great affection.

Not just because of everything I learned and because of the academic path that allowed me to embark on finishing.

Also for the human quality of the teachers, of my tutors and classmates, who are still part of my life. I can’t be more grateful to you all.”

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Cristina Cano

DTIC PhD 2011 Research Area: Networks & Communications Associate Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (2015) Research Scientist at Inria (2016)

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Research Fellow at Maynooth University (2012)

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“… being part of the international and multidisciplinary environment at UPF DTIC gave me (and still does from the distance) great opportunities to engage in cutting-edge research.

A truly supportive but challenging place to boost research careers.”

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Luz Rello

DTIC PhD 2014 Research Area: Computation & Intelligent Systems Lecturer @ Department of Information Systems and Technology at the IE Business School

Best European Young Researcher Award,

by Euroscience association (2013) Founder of the social company Change Dyslexia (2015) Innovators Under 35, convened by the MIT Technology Review (2020) PostDoctoral Fellow Human-Computer Interaction Institute Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

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Princess of Girona Foundation Award (2016)

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“I will be forever grateful for the friendship and scientific education I have found at UPF DTIC. Graduate school at the Center for Brain and Cognition and the Reasoning Infants Cognition Research Group laid the foundation of my work. Being a young researcher immersed in such a highly interdisciplinary and international academic setting, under the supervision of the amazing faculty, was truly exciting. It opened unique research opportunities.”

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Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti

PostDoctoral Fellow at the Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University (2015) PostDoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University (2018)

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DTIC PhD 2016 Research Area: Brain and Cognition Assistant Professor at the Yale Psychology Department

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“Pursuing the PhD at UPF DTIC department allowed me to deal with very complex real problems in the field of surgical planning and navigation.

I had the opportunity to deepen into breakthrough artificial intelligence algorithms to build an end-to-end solution. I was able to both device the idea and implement it into a software application that was used by surgeons.”

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Jordina Torrents

DTIC PhD 2019 Research Area: Computational Biology and Biomedical Systems Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lead at HP Large Format Printing Associate Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Google Women Techmakers (2017) Big Data & IA Talent Awards for her PhD Thesis, COE and Oracle (2019) McKinsey’s Next Generation Women Leaders Scholar, Paris (2020) Ada Byron prize by Deusto University (2021)

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Prize 12 X 12 Woman TIC: woman revelation (2018)

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DTIC Office Directory

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UPF Campus Poblenou Located in the heart of the 22@ technological district of Barcelona and placed near the city center and the beach, it offers a unique opportunity to enjoy one of the most exciting cities in the world.

Promoter Research & Innovation carme.buisan@upf.edu Administration Our administration team consists of 17 people.

Main contacts below:

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DTIC’s contact details: C/ Roc Boronat, 138 - 08018 Barcelona

Management: Judith Champion Teaching Area coordinator: Sonia Iturrate Faculty & Recruitment Area coordinator: Jana Safrankova Economic Management & Research Area coordinator: Vanessa Jiménez

Please visit us @:

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secretaria.dtic@upf.edu

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Life in Barcelona

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Barcelona has become an important cluster for research, attracting young and consolidated professionals and entrepreneurs from all over the world. Its quality of life and relaxed lifestyle, together with eight universities and top-ranked business schools, make it a perfect environment for local and international talent to flourish.

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DTIC provides full support to students and faculty joining the UPF regardless of whether it is just for a few days or longer period.

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Our Faculty members

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We are listing below our Faculty members together with some keywords for their research interests.

We encourage you to look up international metrics of academic excellence on the background of our faculty such as their www.scholar.google.com (which shows some metrics on citations and H-Index),

or their ACM profile in the http://dl.acm.org (where you can also find their publications, subject areas and keywords)

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Moreover, identifying keywords and subject areas may guide you from potential collaborations, choosing them as your PhD advisor or engaging them for a post-doctoral position in their research group or contacting them as your potential partner for a collaborative research project.

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where you will see their international caliber.

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Full Professors Ralph ANDRZEJAK: Nonlinear time series analysis, epilepsy, synchronization in networks Coloma BALLESTER: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning Ricardo BAEZA-YATES: Responsible AI, Information Retrieval, Web Search & Mining, Data Mining, Algorithms and Data Structures Boris BELLALTA: Wireless Networking, Adaptive Systems; Machine Learning; Interactive, immersive and real-time communications

Oscar CAMARA: Medical Data Analysis, Computational Modeling,Visual Analytics

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Josep BLAT: Human-Computer Interaction, Media & 3D Graphics

Vladimir ESTIVILL-CASTRO: Algorithms, Robotics, Data Mining, Software Engineering Davinia HERNANDEZ-LEO: Learning technologies, Learning design, Learning analytics Antoni IVORRA: Electroporation, Bioimpedance, Neuroprosthetics, Neural engineering, Bioelectricity

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Anders JONSSON: Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Automatic Planning

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Angel LOZANO: Wireless Communications, Wireless Networks, Communication Theory Rubén MORENO: Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience Jérôme NOAILLY: Biomechanics & Mechanobiology, Systems biology, Finite element modeling, Network & Agent-based modeling, In silico medicine Miquel OLIVER: Wireless Communications, Telecom Policy, Education

Rafael POUS: Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, RFID, Antennas, Robotics Horacio SAGGION: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science

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Gemma PIELLA: Medical image analysis, data integration, computer vision

Núria SEBASTIÁN: Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Bilingualism, Infancy

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Xavier SERRA: Audio Signal Processing, Sound and Music Computing, Music Information Retrieval, Computational Musicology

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(Research Professors) Bart BIJNENS: Cardiovascular pathophysiology, Cardiac Imaging, Computational Physiology, Machine Learning for Clinical Decision Making Damián BLASI: Language diversity, Evolutionary Anthropology, Human Cognition, Cultural Evolution, Computational Social sciences Luca BONATTI: Reasoning, Infant Cognition

Gustavo DECO: Computational Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Biological Networks, Statistical Formulation of Neural Networks, and Chaos theory. He’s also a Full Professor in the department Miguel Angel GONZÁLEZ-BALLESTER: Medical image analysis, Medical computer vision, Computer-assisted surgery, Computer vision

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Carlos CASTILLO: Social Computing, Social Media, Crisis Informatics, Algorithmic Fairness

Jorge LOBO: Artificial Intelligence, Network Management, Computer Security Salvador SOTO: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychophysics, Perception, Attention, Multisensory Processing

Leo WANNER: Natural Language Processing, Automatic Multilingual report generation, Automatic Summarization of written material and Information Extraction

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Juan Manuel TORO: Language Acquisition, Comparative Cognition, Music Processing

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Associate Professors Victor DALMAU: Constraint satisfaction, Complexity Theory, Logic in computer science, and Computational Learning theory Vanesa DAZA: Cyber Security, Criptography, Blockchain, Mathematics Giovanni GERACI: Wireless communications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Satellite communications Vicenç GÓMEZ: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reinforcement learning, Data science

Gloria HARO: Computer Vision,Video Understanding, Multimodal Analysis Alfonso MARTINEZ: Optical communications, Information Theory, particularly on digital modulation and mismatched decoding

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Sergi JORDÀ: Sound and Music Computing, Computational Creativity, Human Computer Interaction, Tangible Interaction

Ernest MONTBRIÓ: Synchronization, Computational Neuroscience, Nonlinear Dynamics Narcís PARÉS: Full-body Interaction, Embodied Interaction, Augmented Mixed & Virtual Reality, Autism, Digital Cultural Heritage

Rafael RAMÍREZ: Machine Learning, Music informatics, Brain-computer interfaces Dolors SALA: Networking Federiko SUKNO: Computer Vision, Facial Analysis

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Enric PEIG: Information and Knowledge representation systems, Interoperability mechanisms and Standardization

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Tenure-Track Researchers Pablo ARIAS: image and video restoration, computer vision, signal processing Gergely NEU: Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning Carla RÀFOLS: Cryptography, mathematics Martí SÁNCHEZ: Artificial Intelligence, Neuro-robotics, Multi-agents

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Patricia SANTOS: Human-centred Learning Technologies, Learning Design, Learning Analytics, Design Thinking

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