2022/2023 President IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
August 2024 Committee of experts for the Master's program “Mobility in the City” at Carlos III University Spain
Since 2022 Founder and President of the Association of Spanish Scientist in Austria, ACERA
October 2023, Member of the Advisory Committee, Faculty of Engineering Technology (FET), KU Leuven for Faculty candidates selection
2021 President Elect, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
Since 2020 Founder and Chair, IEEE ITSS Austrian Chapter
Member of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Council Executive Committee, Vice-president Educational Activities (from Jan 1, 2016).
Member of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Board of Governors (BoG) (Jan 1, 2015 to Dec 31, 2017).
Chair, Human Factors in Intelligent Transportation Systems, HFITS, Technical Activities Committee (TC) – a sub-committee of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society TC HFITS., opens an external URL in a new window
Member, Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation, ATSS, Technical Activities Committee (TC) – a sub-committee of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.
PhD theses Grading Committee
Nov 24 "Prediction of Mobility Data with Prior on the Topography of an Infrastructure of a Road Network", Doctoral School, Math and Sciences and Information and Communication Technologies PhD Specialization: Signal, Image and Automation, Université Gustave Eiffel, in partnership with IFPEN, Paris, France.
Oct 23 "Predictive Techniques for Scene Understanding by using Deep Learning in Autonomous Driving", PhD. Program in Electronics: Advanced Electronic Systems, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain.
Dec 22 "Utilization of Multi Heterogeneous Agents in Autonomy-driven Cooperative Systems", Faculty of Engineering and Materials Science, German University in El Cairo, Egypt.
"Collaborative Mobility to Enable High-Density Parking Lots", Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto Portugal.
"Safety in Mixed Traffic Environment", Doctoral Program Technische Wissenschaften, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
"Design and Validation of Decision and Control Systems in Automated Driving", Department /Institute of Automatic Control and System Engineering (UPV/EHU), Universidad del Pais Vasco in collaboration with Tecnalia, Bilbao, Spain
"Prediction of Vehicle Intentions for Advanced Autonomous Driving", PhD. Program in Information and Communications Technologies, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain.
“A Microscopic Framework for Modeling and Simulating Human and Automated Driving”, Technical University Wien
"Reconstruction of the vehicle environment for autonomous guidance in complex environments", Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Madrid, Spain
“Proposal of an adaptive infotainment system depending on driving scenario complexity”, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña in collaboration with SEAT, Spain
"Autonomous cars' coordination among legacy vehicles applied to safe braking", Eurecom; Sorbonne Université, France
“Traffic Situation Management for Driving Automation of Articulated Heavy Road Transports, -From driver behavior towards highway autopilot”, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
“Vision-Based Navigation System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Spain.
“Estrategias para la Conducción Autónoma Cooperativa”, Escuela tecnica superior de Ingenieria de sistemas informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
“Modelado de comportamiento de conductores con técnicas de inteligencia computacional”, Escuela técnica superior de Ingeniería de sistemas informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
“Sistema de comunicaciones V2X para vehículos inteligentes como soporte para sistemas cooperativos”, Artificial Intelligence Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
“Pedestrian Path, Intention and Pose Prediction through Gaussian Process Dynamical Models and Pedestrian Activity Recognition”, PhD. Program in Information and Communications Technologies, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
“Software Architecture for Self-Driving Vehicles”, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Spain.
Awards Committee
Launch of the IEEE ITSS Presidential Award for Sustainability in Transportation
2021 IEEE ITSS Awards Commitee Chair
IEEE Transportation Technologies award committee member (5.2018-5.2020).
Member, Awards Committee, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference ITSC 2018, Maui, Hawaii, USA.
Member, Awards Committee, Best ITS PhD Thesis.
Member, Awards Committee, Future Active Safety Technology Towards zero traffic accidents, FAST-zero 2017 Symposium, Japan.
Member, Awards Committee, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Member, Awards Committee, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Member, Awards Committee, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Member, Awards Committee, Future Active Safety Technology Towards zero traffic accidents, FAST-zero 2015 Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Member, Awards Committee, Best ITS PhD Thesis, Spanish ITSS Chapter.
Editor
Guest editor Applied Energy, 2024 special issue on low-carbon transportation systems in the context of carbon neutrality
Guest editor e+i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 2023, 2024 Special Issue "Autonomous Driving (Autonomes Fahren)"
Guest Editor 2023, 2024 Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Special Issue on Advancing Urban Low-altitude Transportation
Editor Technologies for Smart Cities, ed. Yuri A. Vershinin, Fedor Pashchenko, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05516-4, opens an external URL in a new window , Publisher Springer Cham
Editor Journal of Communications in Transportation Research Editorial Board, opens an external URL in a new window
Associate Editor Journal Fundamental Research, special issue on Fundamental Inter-disciplinary Innovation and Practices in Intelligent Vehicle and Transportation
Guest Editor IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine Special Issue on: Driver behaviour in intelligent transportation systems (ITS), 2020-2021
Guest Editor IEEE Robotics and Automation, Magazine, Special issue on Autonomous Vehicle: Artificial Intelligence and Model based techniques in Decision and Control (IEEE RA Magazine), opens an external URL in a new window
Guest Editor Automotive Innovation, Special Issue “Human-like Smart Autonomous Driving for Intelligent Vehicles and Transportation Systems”
Editor “Book on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles”, Riverpublishers
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportations Systems (IEEE T-ITS)
Editor ITS Research Lab Column, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IEEE ITSM), May 14-Dec 20
Associate Editor IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IEEE ITSM)
Guest Editor Special Issue on "Cooperative Systems for Autonomous Vehicles”, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2017-2018.
Guest Editor Special Issue on "ICVES 2017" of IEEE Intelligent Transportations Systems Magazine
Guest Editor Special Issue on "Knowledge discovery from mobility data for intelligent transportation systems", IEEE T-ITS
Guest Editor Special Issue on "Future Active Safety Technology toward Zero-Traffic Accidents" of IEEE Intelligent Transportations Systems Magazine FastZero Special Issue, opens an external URL in a new window
Board of Editors IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Podcast (IEEE ITS Podcast), opens an external URL in a new window
Editor of the ITS Research Lab Spot Light column in the IEEE ITS Magazine, opens an external URL in a new window
Guest Editor Special Issue on "Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles" (HFIV), opens an external URL in a new window of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportations Systems, opens an external URL in a new window IEEE T-ITS)
Associate Editor (Workshops) IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2014, 2015, 2016
Associate Editor (Workshops) IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2016
Associate Editor IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2014, 2016
Conferences Organizer and Chair
(2025) Workshops Chair IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 24) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
(2024) General Co-Chair 2024 INFORMS Conference on Service Science INFORMS’, opens an external URL in a new window
(2023) International Advisory Committee, 17th IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI 2023) SOLI’, opens an external URL in a new window
(2023) General Co-Chair, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI 2023)
(2022) International Advisory Committee of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2022)
(2021) General Co-Chair of the First IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence, DTPI 2021
(2021) Special Sessions Chair, 2021 IEEE Intelligent Transportations Systems Conferences ITSC’2, opens an external URL in a new window1
(2021) Technical Session Solutions for Mobility in an Urban Environment, within the IEEE International Forum on Smart Grid for Smart Cities 2021
(2021) IEEE Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’21, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’21, opens an external URL in a new window, 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2021) Thematic Track/Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems", to be held at EPIA 2021, Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
(2020) Special Sessions Chair 2020 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference ITSC' 2020
(2020) IEEE Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’20, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’20, opens an external URL in a new window, 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2018-2019) Workshop “Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart Mobility", within the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST2019, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
(2019) Program Co-Chair, 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium IV’19, opens an external URL in a new window
(2019) IEEE 8th Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’19, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’19, opens an external URL in a new window, 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2019) Special Sessions Chair, 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportations Systems Conferences ITSC’19, opens an external URL in a new window
(2018) Tutorials Chair, 2018 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference ITSC’18, opens an external URL in a new window
(2018) Special Session Chair: Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles, 2018 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference ITSC’18, opens an external URL in a new window
(2018) IEEE 7th Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’18, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’18, opens an external URL in a new window, 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2017) General Chair, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety IEEE ICVES’17, opens an external URL in a new window
(2017) IEEE 6th Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’17, opens an external URL in a new window, within the ITSC’17, opens an external URL in a new window, 2017 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference.
(2016) Chair Workshops and Tutorials, 2016 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium IV’16, opens an external URL in a new window
(2016) Special Session on Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles, ICD & ACV 2016, opens an external URL in a new window within the CTS 2016, opens an external URL in a new window, 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
(2016) IEEE Fifth Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’16, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’16, opens an external URL in a new window, 2016 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2016) Chair Workshop “Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart Mobility", within the Sixteenth International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST2017.
(2015) Program Co-Chair, International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITSC’15, opens an external URL in a new window
(2015) Special Session on Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles, ICD & ACV 2015, opens an external URL in a new window within the CTS 2015, opens an external URL in a new window, 2015 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
(2015) IEEE Fourth Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’15, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’15, opens an external URL in a new window, 2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2015) Special Session on Safety on Crossings, Future Active Safety Technology Towards zero traffic accidents, FAST-zero 2015 Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden.
(2014) Special Session on Human Factors in Intelligent Transportation Systems (HFITS) within the 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems IEEE ITSC 2014., opens an external URL in a new window
(2014) IEEE Third Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’14, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’14, opens an external URL in a new window, 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2014) Special Session on Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles, ICD & ACV 2014, opens an external URL in a new window within the CTS 2014, , opens an external URL in a new window2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
(2013) IEEE Second Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’13, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’13, opens an external URL in a new window, 2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2013) IEEE Special Session on Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation: Innovative Trends, within the ITSC’13, 6th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
(2013) Thematic Track/Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems", to be held at EPIA 2013, opens an external URL in a new window, 16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
(2012) IEEE First Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’12, opens an external URL in a new window, within the IV’12, opens an external URL in a new window, 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
Reviewer
Journals
"Nature Cities"
"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems".
"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine ".
"IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems".
"IEEE Communications Letters", ScholarOne Manuscripts.
"Journal of Communications and Networks", ScholarOne Manuscripts.
"Advances in Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation", Springer, Integrated Series on Intelligent Systems.
Conferences
2023, 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023, 2024), 21st IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, (ICARSC 2021, 2023, 2024); Workshop on Machine Learning in Smart Mobility (MLSM), within the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning — IDEAL 2020; Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, IEEE ITSC 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015-2021 International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology IEEE ICCCT 2011, 2012; Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence EPIA 2011, 2013, 2021-2024; Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015; World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WORLDCIST 2013, 2014; Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IEEE IV 2013-2024; Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Automotive'UI 2013, 2014, 2015; The Tenth International Conference on Systems, ICONS 2015, 2016; Future Active Safety Technology Towards zero traffic accidents, FASTZERO 2015-2019; Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications WISA 2013, 2014, 2015; Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Transport, AmITR 2015.
Research Funding Organizations
2023,2024 HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01 - Doctoral Networks - ENG Panel Evaluation
2021,2023 Science Foundation Ireland
European Commission Expert Horizon 2020 transport, H2020-DT-ART-2020
6.2019 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Advisor Initiatives “Sonderforschungsbereich”
European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net.
European Commission Expert
Vehicle and Traffic Safety Center at Chalmers, SAFER Open Research at ASTAZERO.
Ireland’s principle science and engineering research funding agency, Science Foundation Ireland, Spokes 2015 Program.
Awards and Recognitions
IEEE 2023 MGA Diversity & Inclusion Award: "For accomplishing significant performance in fostering technological innovation, excellence and diversity in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society".
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 2019 Best ITSS Technical Committee (TC on Human Factors) Award.
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 2018 Best ITSS Technical Committee (TC on Human Factors) Award.
2017 IEEE Meritorious Achievement , opens an external URL in a new windowin Continuing Education Award
Certificate of Appreciation Special Session Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles (ICD & ACV 2016) at 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
Certification of Appreciation Workshop “4th Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles (HFIV)” at 2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
Certificate of Appreciation Special Session Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles (ICD & ACV 2014) at 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
Certificate of Appreciation for Distinguished Service to the 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
Best Poster Award: “Driver-Centric Driving Simulator”, 2010 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.