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Keynote about Synthetic Data and Foundation Models, ICCIDA 2025, Spain (July 2025)

• Giving a Keynote in the topic of “Synthetic Data and Foundation Models: Challenges and Opportunities in Security Applications” at 4th International Conference on Computing, IoT and Data Analytics (ICCIDA 2025).

Best Paper Award at 2nd MetaFood Workshop, IEEE/CVF CVPR 2025, Nashville, USA (June 2025)

• Our paper “Are Vision-Language Models Ready for Dietary Assessment? Exploring the Next Frontier in AI-Powered Food Image Recognition” received the “Best Paper Award” at the 2nd MetaFood Workshop organized within IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, CVPR 2025.

Talk about Biometrics and Media Forensics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Spain (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).

Juan López de Peñalver Award (2024), Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, Spain (February 2025)

• I received the “Juan López de Peñalver Award (2024)” from the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. This award is granted to researchers/engineers under the age of 40 who have made outstanding contributions in any professional field of Spanish engineering.

Organization of 2nd FRCSyn Workshop at IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024, Seattle, USA (June 2024)

• Organization of the Workshop 2nd Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data (FRCSyn) at IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2024.

Best Paper Award at AMFG Workshop, IEEE/CVF ICCV 2023, Paris, France (October 2023)

• Our paper GANDiffFace received the “Best Paper Award” at the AMFG Workshop in IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023.

Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2019-2022, Alicante, Spain (June 2023)

• I received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2019-2022 from the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI).

IPCV Master 2023, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain (May 2023)

• Teaching “People Detection and Biometric Recognition” course to the international students of the Master’s Degree in Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV)

AAAI 2023, Washington DC, USA (February 2023)

• Presenting our research and technology at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

IEEE AVSS 2022, Madrid, Spain (December 2022)

• General Co-Chair and Program Co-Chair of the 18th IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance

Visiting Veridas Offices, Pamplona, Spain (November 2022)

• Visiting our partner Veridas and discussing research advances in our collaboration.

Research Event PRIMA/TRESPASS and Summer School, Madrid, Spain (June 2022)

• Local Organizer Committee and Speaker of the Research Event and Summer School of PRIMA and TRESPASS EU ITNs.

ICDAR 2019 Conference, Sydney, Australia (September 2019)

• Presenting our research and technology at 15th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR.

CVPR 2019 Conference, Long Beach, USA (June 2019)

• Presenting our research and technology at IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR.

European Biometrics Industry Award, Darmstadt, Germany (September 2018)

• I received the European Biometrics Industry Award from the European Association for Biometrics (EAB).

Research Internship at da/sec Group, Darmstadt, Germany (July 2018)

• Presenting the results of my research internship in the topic of fingerprint presentation attack detection to the members of the da/sec group.