Eduardo Lleida received an M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering and a Ph.D. degree in signal processing from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1985 and 1990, respectively. From 1986 to 1988, he was involved in his doctoral work with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC. From 1989 to 1990, he was an Assistant Professor and, from 1991 to 1993, he was an Associated Professor with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC. From February 1995 to January 1996, he was with ATT Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, as a consultant in speech recognition. He is currently a Full Professor of signal theory and communications with the Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications, University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is a Member of the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), where he heads the ViVoLab Research Group in speech technologies. He is the doctoral advisor of 12 doctoral students. He has managed more than 50 speech-related projects, been an inventor in several worldwide patents, and coauthored more than 200 technical papers in the field of speech, speaker and language recognition, speech enhancement and recognition in adverse acoustic environments, acoustic modeling, confidence measures, and spoken dialogue systems.