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Awards
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2025. Computer Science leader for
Research.com, ranking #81 in the field of Computer Science and #45 in the
field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Spain.
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2024. IEEE ITS Best
Dissertation Award for the doctoral research carried out by Carlos
Gómez-Huélamo under my supervision entitled “Predictive Techniques for Scene
Understanding using Deep Learning in Autonomous Driving”.
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2024. Computer Science leader for
Research.com, ranking #75 in the field of Computer Science and #49 in the
field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Spain.
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2022. First
Prize in the "Premios 2022 - Campus de Excelencia Internacional 'Energía Inteligente" in the Final Degree Project
category, for my student Santiago Montiel Marín for the project entitled
"Multi-Object Tracking System based on LiDAR and RADAR for Intelligent
Vehicles Applications” carried out under my supervision.
- 2021. Mention to
the Thesis Master in Industrial Engineering in the XVII edition of the Rodolfo
Benito Samaniego Foundation Awards, granted by the COIIM (Official
College of Industrial Engineers of Madrid) to Ms. Marta Ceballos Alcazar
for the work “Automatic and deep ignition for the Semantic segmentation of
images in precision agriculture” (Co-supervisor).
- 2020. First
Prize in the "Premios
2020 - Campus de Excelencia Internacional 'Energía Inteligente"
in the PhD category, for my student Eduardo Romera for the project
entitled "Semantic 3D scene understanding for autonomous vehicles
using deep learning” carried out under my supervision.
- 2020. First
Prize in the "Premios
2020 - Campus de Excelencia Internacional 'Energía Inteligente"
in the Master Thesis category, for my student Carlos Gómez Huélamo for
the project entitled "Predictive Techniques for Scene Understanding
by using Deep Learning” carried out under my supervision.
- 2020. Best Master's Degree Final
Project in Industrial Engineering among the regions of Madrid, Castilla
y León, Castilla-La Mancha and País Vasco for my student Carlos Gómez-Huélamo for the
project entitled "Predictive Techniques for scene understanding
using Deep Learning". This award was sponsored by the Fundación
Rodolfo Benito Samaniego and COIIM (Colegio
Oficial de Ingenieros
Industriales de Madrid). (Supervisor).
- 2019. IEEE
ITS Institutional Lead Award for the Robesafe Lab for its
longstanding work on perception systems applied to robotics, road
infrastructures and intelligent vehicles.
- 2019. Best PhD Thesis of the
University of Alcala for the course 2016-17 in the Engineering and
Architecture field for Roberto Arroyo. University of Alcalá.
(Director)
- 2019. Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society for the Autonomous vehicles and intelligent
transportation field. 2019-2021.
- 2018. Prize to the best Final Degree Project of the Engineering
Electronics and Industrial Automatic Degree of the University of Alcalá
in the course 2016-17, to Carlos Gómez Huélamo for his work “Automatic changes
detection over panoramic images of Google Street View”. March 9, 2018,
Alcalá de Henares, Spain. (Supervisor)
- 2018. Second
prize in the Final Degree Projects Awards 2018 related with industry in the Community of
Madrid organized by Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Técnicos Industriales de Madrid (COITIM) to
Carlos Gómez Huélamo for his work “Automatic changes detection over
panoramic images of Google Street View”. February 27, 2018,
Madrid, Spain (Supervisor)
- 2018. Best Paper Award for the
work “Long-range Traversability Awareness and
Low-lying Obstacle Negotiation with RealSense for the Visually Impaired”
at the 2nd International
Conference on Frontiers of Image Processing (ICFIP 2018). March 9-11, 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
- 2017. Classic
paper (highly-cited paper that have stood the test of time) in the
Transportation line included in Engineering and Computer Science area of
the Google Scholar Metrics.
- 2017. Best Spanish PhD Thesis in
Intelligent Vehicles for Roberto Arroyo. ASEPA (Supervisor).
- 2017. International
Excellence Campus “Smart Energy” award 2017 for the project “Smart
Street Lights Network (SSLN)” (researcher).
- 2017. Best Student Paper Award to
Eduardo Romera for the work “Efficient ConvNet
for Real-time Semantic Segmentation” at the 2017
Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. June
10-14, 2017, Redondo Beach, CA, USA (Supervisor).
- 2016. One of the most
productive author in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) field
according to the H-Classic documents obtained from the WoS during the period 1996-2014.
- 2016. 1% most cited
research since September/October, 2016 in Transportation Science &
Technology category according to data from Web of Knowledge (WOK)
for the paper “Real-time system for monitoring driver vigilance”,
published on IEEE T ITS, vol.7, issue 1, pp: 66-77. 2006.
- 2016. Top 5 most highly cited
papers published in Image and Vision Computing during 2014, 2015 and up
until June 2016 for the paper “A Text Reading Algorithm for both
Natural and Born-Digital Images”.
- 2016. Accesit in the Final Degree Projects Awards
2015 organized by Colegio Oficial de
Ingenieros Técnicos
Industriales de Madrid (COITIM) to Lidia Caramazana
Zarzosa for her work “Visual Odometry
correction based on Closed Loop detection”. February 4, 2016, Madrid,
Spain (Supervisor)
- 2015. IEEE
ITSS-Spain Best Final Degree Project Award to Mr. Mario Passani for his project “Conditional Random Fields
Applied to Image Understanding”. November 26, 2015,
Alcalá de Henares, Spain (Supervisor)
- 2015. IEEE
ITSS-Spain 2º Best Master Thesis Award to Mr. Eduardo Romera for his
work “Driver Behaviour Evaluation by using Smartphones”. November 26, 2015,
Alcalá de Henares, Spain (Supervisor)
- 2015. Best Student Paper Award
at the 2015 Intelligent Vehicles
Symposium. June 28- July 2, 2015, Seoul,
Korea. (Supervisor)
- 2014. Best Poster Paper at the 2014 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. June 8-11, 2014, Dearborn, Michigan, USA
- 2013. Best PhD Thesis in Electrical Engineering of the course
2011-2012 for Rafael Raya. University of Alcalá. (Academic tutor)
- 2013. Top 10
Best Research Papers (2000 to 2009) in IEEE Intelligent Transportation
Systems for the paper Real-time system for monitoring driver vigilance,
IEEE T on ITS, Vol. 7, No. 1, 63-77 (2006)
- 2013. IEEE ITSS Outstanding Application Award
to the best applied work in Intelligent Transportation Systems for the
project VISUALISE - Automatic Traffic Signs and Panels Inspection System
using Computer Vision-.
- 2012. Fundación Caja Madrid Visiting
Scholarship for the course 2012-2013.
- 2012. Best PhD Thesis
in Robotics in 2011 for Rafael Raya. Spanish Committee of Automatic.
(Academic tutor)
- 2011. 3M Innovation
Award 2011. Category: Road Safety.
- 2011. Finalist in Vodafone Award to the Innovation in
Telecommunications in 2011
- 2010. Mention in Best Automotive Research Work in Spain in 2010
for David Schleicher. Barreiros Foundation. (Supervisor)
- 2008. Best Entrepreneurship Business Plan for Technological
Spin-off Companies. University of Alcalá.
- 2006. Mention in Best PhD Thesis in Robotics in 2005 for Manuel
Ocaña. Spanish Committee of Automatic. (Supervisor)
- 2006. Best PhD Thesis in Electrical Engineering in 2005 for Manuel
Ocaña. University of Alcalá. (Supervisor)
- 2005. Best PhD Thesis in Robotics of the course 2003-2004 for
Elena López. Spanish Committee of Automatic. (Supervisor)
- 2004. Mention in 3M Innovation Award 2004. Category: Industrial
Applications.
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