Javier Sánchez is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a member of the University Institute of Cybernetics, Business, and Society (IUCES). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2001 from the same university. His field of specialization is computer vision and artificial intelligence. He has published numerous articles on motion estimation from image sequences, stereoscopic vision, camera calibration, and 3D scene reconstruction. He is currently working on neural networks applied to various computer vision problems, such as medical image segmentation and classification, or the forecasting of ocean dynamics through deep learning. He has completed research stays at international R&D centers, such as the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Nice or the Center for Mathematics and Their Applications (CMLA) at the École Normale Supèrieure Paris-Saclay in Paris. He has participated in several European and national projects on computer vision and fluid dynamics. He has also collaborated with private companies to develop software applications related to image processing and applications of virtual environments for realistic terrain visualization. He founded the Image Analysis and Software Engineering Research Group (AIIS) in 2010 and was director of the Image Technology R&D Center (CTIM) from 2010 to 2016.