Governing Council
Núria Montserrat Pulido
President
Ministry of Research and Universities
Government of Catalonia
Francisco Javier Lafuente Sancho
Vice-president
Rector, UAB
Rosa Maria Sebastián
Member representing the UAB
Vice-Rector for Innovation and Strategic Projects, UAB
Assumpció Malgosa Morera
Member representing the UAB
Vice-rector for Research
UAB
Joan Gómez Pallarès
Member representing the Generalitat de Catalunya
General Director of Research
Government of Catalonia
Oriol Alcoba Malaspina
Member representing the Generalitat de Catalunya
General Director of Innovation, Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship
Government of Catalonia
Maria Galindo García-Delgado
Member representing the Generalitat de Catalunya
Secretary of Digital Policies
Government of Catalonia
Xavier Pons
Member representing the UAB
Full professor at UAB
Laia Pallejà
Secretary
Director of the Institute for Catalan Research Centers (CERCA)
Scientific Advisory Board
Andreas Dengel
Member
Full Professor at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Professor Andreas Dengel is a member of the Management Board as well as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Kaiserslautern where he is leading the Knowledge Management research department. In 1993 he was appointed Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern where he holds the chair Knowledge-Based Systems. Since 2009 he is also Professor (Kyakuin) at the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, at Osaka Prefecture University. Since 2006 he is a member of the IT-Summit Working Group on service and consumer-oriented information technology, consulting the German government on questions of future IT strategies. In 2009 he appointed an expert for the German Council of Science and Humanities of the German Government. In 2008 he co-founded the Institute for Document Analysis and Knowledge Science "IDAKS" at the Osaka Prefecture University in Japan.
Andreas is an advisory board member of the Center of Excellence on Semantic Technologies at MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the NEC Computers and Communication Innovation Research Labs (CCIL), and Int. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). He is a board member of the Science Alliance Kaiserslautern, a Principle Investigator of the CMCM Research Center at the University of Kaiserslautern as well as of the Diemersteiner Circle. Prof. Dengel is Member of the Editorial Board for international journals like IJDAR, Intelligent Decision Technologies or Future Internet. Moreover, he is founder or initiator of several successful start-up companies. In 2005 he received a Pioneer Spirit Award for one of his start-up concepts. He is co-editor of various international computer science journals and has written or edited 10 books and is the author of more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific publications. In 2004, Andreas Dengel has been elected a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The most prominent prizes are the ICDAR Young Investigator Award, the Nakano Award, the Technical Communication Award of the Alcatel SEL Foundation, the Multi-Media Award of the State Rheinland-Pfalz as well as a Document Analysis Systems Achievement Award.
Antonio Torralba
Member
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Antonio Torralba received a degree in telecommunications engineering from Telecom BCN, Spain, in 1994 and a Ph.D. degree in signal, image, and speech processing from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he spent postdoctoral training at the Brain and Cognitive Science Department and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT. He is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prof. Torralba is an Associate Editor of the International Journal in Computer Vision and has served as program chair for the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in 2015. He received the 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award, the best student paper award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2009, and the 2010 J. K. Aggarwal Prize from the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
Filiberto Pla
Member
Full professor at Jaume I University (Spain)
Jean-Marc Ogier
Member
Université de La Rochelle
Rita Cucchiara
Member
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Short Bio:
Rita Cucchiara is Professor of Computer Architecture and Computer Vision at Engineering Department "Enzo Ferrari" of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She heads the Imagelab research lab at UNIMORE. She is Director of the Inter-departmental Centre of Research in ICT Softech-ICTof Emilia Romagna High Technology network, and Director of the Master in Visual Computing and Multimedia Technology. She is working on computer vision, multimedia pattern recognition, machine learning, and intelligent sensing. In 2016 she has been awarded by the Facebook Artificial intelligence Research and the Cineca Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation grants. Rita Cucchiara is president of GIRPR the Italian Association of Pattern Recognition, a Fellow of IAPR and she is on the Advisory Board of Computer Vision Foundation. She covers also the role of deputy-president of the Italian Groups of Computer Engineering Professors GII, for scientific research. In 2020 she will be General Chair of ICPR2020. She is currently AE of IEEE Trans. of Multimedia. She is the author of more than 300 publications in International Journals and Proceedings.