Esteban García-Cuesta is Associate Professor of the Artificial Intelligence Department at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His teaching and research activities have been linked since its inception to the area of artificial intelligence and computer science. He worked as a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007, 2009 (pre-doctoral) and 2010 (post-doctoral), and Rowan University in 2008, where he developed part of his research studies to obtain his doctorate from the Carlos III University of Madrid in the field of Computer Science. He actively participates in international conferences and journals in the field of AI, both as an author and reviewer. His research topics mainly include: machine learning, artificial intelligence, dimensionality reduction and space embedding, explainable AI, and affective computing, with over 50 publications.