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May, 2025: I received the “Best Young Researchers Award (2024)” from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM). This award recognises and makes visible the work of young researchers at the UAM for their contribution to scientific development, as well as their national and international visibility as a leading research center.
April, 2025: Giving a Talk in the topic of “Advances in Biometric Recognition and Media Forensics in the Era of Synthetic Data and Foundation Models” at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC).
April, 2025: Two papers accepted in different workshops of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025). Topics: Vision-Language Models in Food Image Recognition and Membership Inference Test applied to Images.
February, 2025: Co-Organizer of the Workshop 1st International Workshop on Foundation, Multimodal Large Language and Generative Models for Face and Gesture Recognition (FM&LLM&GM2025) at the IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference (FG 2025).
January, 2025: I received the “Juan Lopez de Peñalver Award (2024)” from the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering (RAING). This award recognises researchers/engineers under 40 years who have carried out outstanding development and innovation work in the field of engineering.
December, 2024: New position at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid: Associate Professor (Profesor Permanente Laboral).
October, 2024: Selected as one of the most influential researchers in the world according to “Ranking of the World Scientist: World Top 2%”, carried out by Stanford University and Elsevier. Check also additional information posted by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
March, 2024: Hiring alert!! 2 Postdoctoral and 5 PhD students Positions at UAM. If you are interested, please check the following document [CLOSED].
January, 2024: Co-Organizer of the Workshop/Challenge 2nd Edition Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data (FRCSyn) at the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2024). The platform used in the 2nd edition of FRCSyn challenge is CodaLab.
December, 2023: Co-Organizer of the 1st International Workshop on Responsible Face Image Processing (ReFIP) at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2024).
October, 2023: Our paper GANDiffFace received the “Best Paper Award” at the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures in IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023.
October, 2023: Selected as one of the most influential researchers in the world according to “Ranking of the World Scientist: World Top 2%”, carried out by Stanford University and Elsevier.
September, 2023: I received the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” in the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023).
September, 2023: Co-Organizer of the Workshop/Challenge 1st Edition Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data (FRCSyn) at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024). The platform used in the 1st edition of FRCSyn challenge is CodaLab.
June, 2023: I received the “Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2019-2022” from the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI).
June, 2023: Co-Organizer of the Keystroke Verification Challenge (KVC) at the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2023).
May, 2023: Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Advances of Mobile and Wearable Biometrics (WAMWB) at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI 2023).
March, 2023: Area Chair of the IEEE Int. Joint Conf. on Biometrics (IJCB 2023).
March, 2023: Publicity Chair of The 19th IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS 2023).
February, 2023: Presenting our research and technology at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
January, 2023: I have been accepted as Technical Area Committee of the European Association For Signal Processing (EURASIP). In particular, in the area BForSec: Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security.
November, 2022: Evaluator of the ELLIS PhD Program.
November, 2022: I have been accepted as member by the ELLIS Society, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems.
2022: General Co-Chair and Program Co-Chair of The 18th IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS 2022).
July, 2022: Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Digital Face Manipulation and Detection.
June-July, 2022: Local Organization Committee of the PRIMA and TRESPASS Summer School at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
2022: Guest Editor of the Special Issue Manipulation Detection in Digital Images and Videos from EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
October, 2022: Co-Organizer of the IJCB 2022 Mobile Behavioral Biometrics Competition (MobileB2C).
January, 2022: I have been invited to serve as Associate Editor in the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022).
2021: Co-Editor of the Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection: From DeepFakes to Morphing Attacks (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Series, Springer).
September, 2021: I received the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” in the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2021).
September, 2021: Co-Organizer of the ICDAR 2021 Competition on On-Line Signature Verification (SVC 2021).
July, 2019: Local Organization Committee and Poster Chair of the 9th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2019).
October, 2018: I have been accepted as Editorial Board in the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter.
September, 2018: I received the “European Biometrics Industry Award (2018)” by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB).