From 19.10.2020 President Elect, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
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.
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
"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
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
Editor “Book on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles”, Riverpublishers
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportations Systems (IEEE T-ITS)
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
Board of Editors IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Podcast (IEEE ITS Podcast)
Editor of the ITS Research Lab Spot Light column in the IEEE ITS Magazine
Guest Editor Special Issue on "Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles" (HFIV) of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportations Systems 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
(2020) Special Sessions Chair 2020 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference ITSC' 2020
(2020) Thematic Track/Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems", to be held at EPIA 2020, Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
(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
(2019) Special Sessions Chair, 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportations Systems Conferences ITSC’19
(2018) Tutorials Chair, 2018 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference ITSC’18
(2018) Special Session Chair: Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles, 2018 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference ITSC’18
(2018) IEEE 7th Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’18, within the IV’18, 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2017) General Chair, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety IEEE ICVES’17
(2017) IEEE 6th Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’17, within the ITSC’17, 2017 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference.
(2016) Chair Workshops and Tutorials, 2016 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium IV’16
(2016) Special Session on Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles, ICD & ACV 2016 within the CTS 2016, 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
(2016) IEEE Fifth Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’16, within the IV’16, 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
(2015) Special Session on Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles, ICD & ACV 2015 within the CTS 2015, 2015 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
(2015) IEEE Fourth Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’15, within the IV’15, 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.
(2014) IEEE Third Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’14, within the IV’14, 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
(2014) Special Session on Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles, ICD & ACV 2014 within the CTS 2014, 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.
(2013) IEEE Second Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’13, within the IV’13, 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, 16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
(2012) IEEE First Workshop on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles HFIV’12, within the IV’12, 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
Reviewer
Journals
"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
Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, IEEE ITSC 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015-2020 International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology IEEE ICCCT 2011, 2012; Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence EPIA 2011, 2013, 2020; 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 2013-2020; 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
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 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 in 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.