Dr. Javier Sanchez-Medina is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain. Dr. Sanchez-Medina earned his Engineering Master Degree in the Telecommunications Faculty in 2002, and his PhD at the Computer Science Department on 2008. His Ph.D. dissertation is versed in the use of Genetic Algorithms, Parallel Computing and Cellular Automata based Traffic Microsimulation to optimize the Traffic Lights Programming within an Urban Traffic Network.