About Me

I work as a professor at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and a member of the Intelligent Systems Group (GSI), where we work on artificial intelligence methods and applications. We also take part in several national and European projects, collaborating with other universities, research centers, and companies.

Research

My research focuses on applying artificial intelligence to health and well-being, especially mental health and emotional regulation. I also develop projects that connect AI with other personal interests, such as art, sports, and urban planning.

I mainly work with technologies such as machine learning, language models, agentic AI, natural language processing, agent-based simulation, and ambient intelligence.

Teaching

I teach several courses at the School of Telecommunications Engineering: “Programming Fundamentals” in the Biomedical Engineering degree; “Programming,” “Programming for Big Data,” “Non-Relational Databases,” and “Data and Services Engineering Projects” in the Data Engineering degree; and “Client-Side Web Technologies” and “Network Computing” in the Telecommunications Technologies and Services degree.

I also supervise bachelor’s and master’s thesis projects in some of the areas I work on. Rather than starting with fixed proposals, we begin with open research topics that can be adapted to each student’s interests to define a specific project:

  • Mental health and emotional well-being: detecting indicators of stress, depression, or anxiety; support systems using virtual assistants or environmental adaptation; virtual reality for clinical training and controlled exposure; simulation of health interventions and policies.
  • Art: recommending works to study their influence on mood; evaluating AI’s ability to identify emotional nuances in art; music recommendation.
  • Urban planning: mobility analysis; optimizing shared-vehicle fleets; simulation to study interventions in urban environments.
  • Sports: performance prediction; physical activity data analysis; training optimization.

If any of these topics interest you, or you have an idea inspired by them, feel free to get in touch and we can talk. For reference, you can see previous GSI bachelor’s and master’s theses.