Carlos-D. Martínez-Hinarejos received the B.Sc.degree in computer science, the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and the B.Sc. degree in biotechnology from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 1998, 2003, and 2012, respectively. He joined the UPV staff in the Computation and Computer Systems Department, UPV, in 2000. He pertains to the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology Research Center, where he develops his research on the topics of speech and handwritten text processing, multimodal systems, dialogue systems, and text classification. He has participated in many European projects and leaded some Spanish projects. Dr. Martínez-Hinarejos is the current coordinator of the Spanish Network for Speech Technologies (RTTH).