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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=49, a WoS h-index=34, 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) ·
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. ·
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 Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Submitted in May 2025. ·
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. Submitted in February 2025. ·
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. Accepted in April 2025. ·
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. Accepted in April 2025. ·
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] ·
Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Rafael Barea, Elena
López-Guillén, Felipe Arango, Fabio Sánchez-García, Luis M. Bergasa,
“Enhancing Autonomous Driving in Urban Scenarios: A Hybrid Approach with
Reinforcement Learning and Classical Control”, in Sensors. Vol. 25(1), nº117, 1-20. December 2024. [PDF]. ·
Jose Berriales-Mateos, Pablo Pardo-Decimavilla,
Santiago Montiel-Marín, Miguel Antunes, Ángel Llamazares
and Luis M. Bergasa, “Voice assistant for an autonomous vehicle aimed
at elderly”, in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Madrid, Spain, November 2024. [PDF]. ·
Daniel Villalobos, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Rodrigo
Gutiérrez-Moreno, Navil Abdeselam, Antonio Moratilla and Luis M. Bergasa,
“Evaluating V2X Communications in the CARLA Simulator for a Collaborative
Planning Use Case”, in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Madrid, Spain, November 2024. [PDF]. ·
Alejandro Diaz-Diaz, Francisco Parrilla, R. de la
Iglesia, Rafael Barea and Luis M. Bergasa, “Wagon and Container Codes
Detection and Recognition based on Yolov8”, in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Madrid, Spain, November 2024.
[PDF]. ·
Alberto Justo, Iker Pacho, Javier Araluce, Jesús
Murgoitio, Luis M. Bergasa, “An Infrastructure-based Localization
Method for Articulated Vehicles”, in 1st Workshop on Cooperative Intelligence
for Autonomous Driving and Robotics (ECCV-WS), Milan, Italy, September
2024. [PDF]. ·
Miguel E. Ortiz, Francisco J. Iriarte, Hugo D.
Rodríguez, Luis Unzueta, Luis M. Bergasa, “Context-aware model
training for Attention-based Multi-Camera Multi-Object Tracking”, in
Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Security and Defence
Applications II (SPIE), Edinburgh, UK, September 2024. [PDF] ·
Miguel Antunes-García, Luis M. Bergasa,
Santiago Montiel-Marín, Rafael Barea, Fabio Sánchez-García, Angel Llamazares, “Fast and Efficient Transformer-based Method
for Bird's Eye View Instance Prediction”, in Conference on Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITSC),
Edmonton, Canada, September 2024. [PDF]. ·
Pablo
Pardo-Decimavilla, Luis M. Bergasa, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Miguel
Antunes Garcia, Angel Llamazares, “Do You Act Like You Talk? Exploring Pose-based Driver Action Classification
with Speech Recognition Networks”, in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Jeju Island, Korea, June 2024. [PDF]. ·
Ricardo Pizarro, Luis M. Bergasa, Luis
Baumela, Jose Miguel Buenaposada, Rafael Barea, “DRVMon-VM:
Distracted driver recognition using large pre-trained video transformers”, in
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV),
Jeju Island, Korea, June 2024. [PDF]. · Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno,
Rafael Barea, Elena López-Guillén, Felipe Arango, Luis M. Bergasa,
“Decision Making for Autonomous Driving Stack: Shortening the Gap from
Simulation to Real-World Implementations”, in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles
Symposium (IV), Jeju Island,
Korea, June 2024. [PDF]. Highlights of Recent/Upcoming professional service (ONLY last year) ·
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. · 2024. Technical
collaborator for the Evaluation and Accreditation Agency of the Regional
Government of Andalusia, responsible for evaluating research project calls
under Line 2: Applied Research and Experimental Development Projects. · 2024. Tracking of the 2022
call for Industrial Doctorates projects of the Community of Madrid in the ICT
area. November 2024. · 2024. Keynote lecture
entitled "Design experience of an electric autonomous vehicle at the
University of Alcalá”, at the Mobile
Alcala, September 2024. · 2024. IEEE ITS Best
Dissertation Award for the doctoral research carried out by Carlos
Gómez-Huélamo under my supervision entitled “Predictive Techniques for Scene
Understanding using Deep Learning in Autonomous Driving”. · 2024. Computer Science leader for
Research.com, ranking #75 in the field of Computer Science and #49 in the
field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Spain. · 2024. International Program
Committee and Associate Editor in the Seventh Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2024),
Madrid, Spain, November, 2024. · 2024. International Program
Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
Conference (ITSC), Edmonton, Canada, September,
2024. · 2024. Program Committee in
the Workshop on Physical Agents
(WAF 2024), Alicante, Spain, September 2024. ·
2024. International Program Committee and Associate
Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea. June 2024. ·
2024. The
U.S. Patent Office granted the patent "Methods, Systems, Articles of
Manufacture and Apparatus for Providing Responses to Queries Regarding Store
Observation Images" (Application No. 17/976,528), with priority date
October 28, 2022. The inventors are Roberto Arroyo, Sergio Álvarez Pardo,
Aitor Aller, Miguel E. Ortíz, and Luis Miguel Bergasa, and the assignee is
Nielsen Consumer LLC. February 5, 2024. |
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