Prof. Juan-Carlos Perez-Cortes

Prof. Dr. Juan-Carlos Perez-Cortes holds a PhD. in Computer Science from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. His fields of research are Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Perception and Human–Machine Interaction. After his initial work on Speech Synthesis, for which he was awarded a National Prize on Informatics in the company Logic Control in 1990, he received a research grant and worked in Connectionist Systems, Language Models, and Geometric Pattern Recognition, obtaining his doctorate in this field in 1994. He became assistant professor in that year and tenured lecturer in 1997. He was Research Subdirector of the Department of Computer Engineering of the UPV, and he has worked since 1998 in Applications of Pattern Recognition to Biometrics, Robotics and Industrial and Embedded Systems at ITI. In 2002, he was appointed as the Scientific Director of the Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica (ITI), an Institute of the network of technology centers of the Valencian Community, Spain (REDIT). These institutions are private associations of companies belonging to each industry sector. Their mission is to close the gap between the knowledge generation phase and the market adoption of technological products and services. They also belong to the Spanish Federation of Technology Centers (FEDIT). Since 2012, he has led the Perception, Recognition, Learning and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at ITI.