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Luis Miguel Bergasa He received the MS degree in Electrical Engineering
in 1995 from the Technical University of Madrid and the PhD degree in
Electrical Engineering in 1999 from the University of Alcalá (UAH). He
is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics of the University of Alcalá (UAH) since 2011. He is Head of the RobeSafe Lab from 2010 and Director of
Digital Transformation of the UAH from 2022. He was Director
of the Advisory Committee for the Strategic Plan of the UAH (2019-2022), Director of Knowledge Transfer at the UAH (2014-2018) and coordinator of UAH Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation (UCC+i) (2014-2018). Besides, he was Head of the Department
of Electronics (2004-2010), co-coordinator of the Master Advanced
Electronic Systems, Intelligent Systems (2007-2010), co-coordinator of the Doctorate program in Electronics (2005-2010) and Deputy Inspector of the UAH services (2012-2013). This
course he is teaching the following subjects: Perception Systems included in the Master in Industrial
Engineering, Intelligent Control Systems and Computer Vision for the Degree in Computer Science. He is author of more than 300 refereed papers
in journals and international conferences, and corresponding author of 7
national patents, 1 international patent (USA) and 1 PCT patent. Currently he
has a Scholar Google h-index=50, a WoS h-index=35, and a classic paper in the Transportation line included in Engineering and Computer Science
area of the Google Scholar Metrics (GSM). He was recognized as a Computer Science leader in 2025
for Research.com, ranking #81 in the field of Computer Science and #45 in
the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Spain among Best
Scientists for 2025 Research.com edition. He was recognized as
one of the most productive author in Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) field during the period 1996-2014. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society (2019-2021). He received the Institutional Lead
Award 2019 from the
IEEE ITS Society for the longstanding work of his research group. His
research activity has been awarded/recognized with 30 prizes/recognitions
related to Robotics and Automotive fields from 2004 to nowadays. He was an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on ITS from 2014 to 2024 and became
a Senior Editor in 2025.
He was Lead Guest Editor of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Guest Editor of two Special Issues (Sensors and IEEE T ITS), member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Vehicular Technology (2012-2017) and he has served on Program/Organizing Committees in
more than 20 conferences. He was Research Visitor at the Computer
Vision Research Group of
the Trinity College in Dublin (Ireland) in 1998, Visiting Scholar at the Toyota
Technological Institute at Chicago (USA) in 2013, collaborating with Raquel Urtasun,
and at the OPTIMAL Center
Northwestern Polytechnic University (China) in 2017. He was co-founder of Vision Safety Technologies Ltd, a spin-off company established to commercialize
computer vision systems for road infrastructure inspection (2009-2016). His
research interests include Perception Systems for Intelligent
Vehicles. He is currently focus on driver behaviors and scene
understanding using Sensors Fusion and Deep Learning Techniques for
autonomous vehicle applications. Please contact me if you are interested in
coming to RobeSafe group for PhD studies or post-doctoral
research as I am always looking for excellent new team members. Highlights of Recent/Upcoming papers (ONLY last year) ·
Alberto Justo, Javier
Araluce, Luis M. Bergasa, “Cooperative
Perception in Real-World Automotive Challenges: A Categorized Survey”, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent
Transportation Systems. Submitted in February
2026. ·
J. Felipe Arango,
Rodrigo Gutierrez, Pedro Revenga, Ángel Llamazares,
Elena López-Guillén, Luis M. Bergasa,
“Closing Sim2Real Gaps: A Versatile Development and Validation Platform for
Autonomous Driving Stacks”, in Sensors.
Submitted in January 2026. ·
Rodrigo
Gutiérrez-Moreno, Rafael Barea, Elena López-Guillén, Felipe Arango, Pedro A.
Revenga, Luis M. Bergasa,
“Curriculum Approach to Bridge the Reality Gap in Autonomous Driving
Decision-Making”, in IEEE Access. Submitted in December 2025. ·
Miguel
Antunes-Garcia; Santiago Montiel-Marín; Fabio Sánchez-García; Rodrigo
Gutiérrez-Moreno; Rafael Barea; Luis
M. Bergasa, “BEVPredFormer: Spatio-temporal
Attention for BEV Instance Prediction in Autonomous Driving”, in Automotive Innovation. Submitted in September 2025. ·
Fabio Sánchez-García,
Santiago Montiel-Marín, Miguel Antunes-García, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Luis M. Bergasa, “CARLADrive:
A Synthetic Multimodal Perception Dataset for Autonomous Driving”, in IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, June 2026. Submitted in September 2025. ·
Santiago
Montiel-Marín, Miguel Antunes-García, Fabio Sánchez-García, Angel Llamazares, Holger Caesar, Luis M. Bergasa, “GaussianCaR: Gaussian
Splatting for Efficient Camera-Radar Fusion”, in IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
Vienna, Austria, June 2026. Submitted in September 2025. ·
Franck Fierro, Javier
Fuentes, Rafael Barea, Elena Lopez, Luis
M. Bergasa, “Augmented Digital Twin with Adaptive OCR for Robust Freight
Wagon Monitoring”, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria,
June 2026. Submitted
in September 2025. ·
Ricardo Pizarro,
Roberto Valle Fernández, Jose M. Buenaposada, Luis Baumela,
Luis M. Bergasa, “ADA-SEL:
Unifying Efficient Training and Inference for Video Temporal Action Detection”,
in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, June 2026. Submitted in September
2025. ·
Franck Fierro, Javier
Fuentes, Rafael Barea, Elena Lopez, Luis
M. Bergasa, “A VLM-Based Digital Twin Approach for Freight Wagon Defect
Inspection”, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, June 2026. Submitted in September
2025. ·
Ricardo Pizarro,
Roberto Valle, Rafael Barea, José M. Buenaposada, Luis Baumela,
Luis M. Bergasa, “PO-GUISE+: Pose
and object guided transformer token selection for efficient driver action
recognition”, in IEEE Transactions on
Intelligent Transportation Systems. Submitted
in May 2025. ·
Marco
Fernández-Pérez, Miguel Antunes-García, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Franck
Fierro, Luis M. Bergasa, “Low-cost
driver monitoring system using deep learning”, in Iberian Robotics Conference
(ROBOT), Porto, Portugal, November
2025. [PDF]. ·
Ricardo Pizarro,
Roberto Valle, José M. Buenaposada, Luis
M. Bergasa, Luis Baumela, “Pose-guided token selection for human action
recognition”, in Image and Vision
Computing. Vol. 162, 105686, 1-13, October 2025. [PDF]. ·
Eduardo
García-Huerta, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Fabio Sánchez, Manuel Ocaña, Elena
López-Guillén and Luis M. Bergasa,
“Monitoring Driver Attention using Virtual Reality Headsets in the CARLA
Simulator”, in International Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF), Cartagena, Spain, September
2025. [PDF]. ·
Javier Fuentes,
Franck Fierro, Rafael Barea*, Elena López-Guillén, Luis M. Bergasa, “Design and Development of a Digital Twin for
Monitoring Railway Infrastructure”, in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2025. [PDF]. ·
Alberto Justo, Javier Araluce, Mario Rodriguez-Arozamena,
Leonardo Dario Gonzalez Alarcon,
Luis M. Bergasa, “LFF-V2V: A Late Fusion Cooperative Framework in
V2V Scenarios”, in IEEE Intelligent
Vehicles Symposium (IV), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2025. [PDF]. ·
Fabio Sánchez-García,
Santiago Montiel-Marín, Miguel Antunes, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Ángel Llamazares, Luis
M. Bergasa, “SalsaNext+: A Multimodal-based
Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Range and RGB Images”, in IEEE Access. April 2025. [PDF] Highlights of Recent/Upcoming professional service (ONLY last year) ·
2026. International
Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation
Systems Conference (ITSC), Naples, Italy. September, 2026. ·
2026. International
Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium
(IV), Detroit, MI, United States. June, 2026. ·
2025. Evaluator of
the dAIEDGE 3rd Call projects. (HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-02-02).
October-November 2025. ·
2025. First Prize in
the “Premio
Campus de Excelencia Internacional Mejor Tesis UAH”, awarded to
the PhD thesis “Predictive Techniques for Scene Understanding by using Deep
Learning in Autonomous Driving”, authored by Carlos Gómez Huélamo under my
supervision. ·
2025. Technical collaborator for the Evaluation and Accreditation Agency of
the Regional Government of Andalusia, responsible for evaluating research
projects’ calls 2025 under Line 2: Applied Research and Experimental
Development Projects. December 2025 – January 2026. ·
2025. New R&D
project entitled “Developing a Robust and eXplainable
End-to-End Autonomous DrIving Architecture
Validated in Simulated and Real Environments (DRIVE-eX)”
(September 2025 – August 2028). Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIIN). ·
2025. Tracking of the
2023 call for Industrial Doctorates projects of the Community of Madrid in
the ICT area. September 2025. ·
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. ·
2025. Evaluator of
the dAIEDGE
2nd Call projects. The dAIEDGE Network of Excellence (NoE) seeks to strengthen and support the development of a
dynamic European cutting-edge AI ecosystem under the umbrella of the European
Lighthouse for AI (HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-02-02). April-May 2025. ·
2025. Evaluator of
Industrial Doctorate grants of the Community of Madrid for the 2024 call in
the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). March– April
2025. ·
2025. New
Collaborative R&D Project Between Research Groups in the Madrid Region. iRoboCity2030-CM – Intelligent Robotic Systems for Sustainable Cities. 2025-2029. Partners: UC3M, CAR-CSIC, UPM, UAH,
URJC, UCM, UAM. Financed by the Regional Government of Madrid. Spain. ·
2025. International
Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation
Systems Conference (ITSC), Gold Coast, Australia. November, 2025. ·
2025. Program Committee
in the Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF
2025), Cartagena, Spain, September 2025. ·
2025. International
Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium
(IV), Cluj-Napoca, Romania. June, 2025. ·
2025. Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Intelligent Transportation Systems from January, 2025. |
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