Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics in 1984 and 1988, both from the University of Valladolid, Spain. In 1988, he joined the Department of Computer Science at the same university, where he currently is a full professor in computer languages and information systems. He has been the ECA-SIMM research group director since 1998. His current research interests include machine learning techniques applied to human language technologies, HCI, and biometric person recognition. He has been the advisor of ten Ph.D. works in speech synthesis and recognition, online signature verification, voice-based information retrieval, and structured parallelism for high-performance computing.