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Javier Jesús Sánchez Medina

Profesor Titular de Universidad del departamento de Informática y Sistemas. Especialista en Sistemas de Transporte Inteligente, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Dr. Javier Sanchez-Medina is currently an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) in the Computer Science department at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain, and head of the Innovation Center for the Information Society (CICEI).

Dr. Sanchez-Medina earned his Engineering Master Degree at the Telecommunications Faculty on 2002, and his PhD at the Computer Science Department on 2008. His PhD dissertation versed on the use of Genetic Algorithms, Parallel Computing and Cellular Automata based Traffic Microsimulation to optimize the Traffic Lights Programming within an Urban Traffic Network.

His research interests include mainly the application of Data Mining, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence to Intelligent Transportation Systems, in particular to Traffic Modeling and Traffic Exploratory, Predictive and Prescriptive Analysis.

Javier Sanchez-Medina has been volunteering for several years at many international conferences related to Intelligent Transportation, Computer Science, Evolutionary Computation, etc. He is reviewer for some Transportation related journals like the IEEE ITSS Transactions, or the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Since 2010, we has collaborated in the organization of up to 17 Workshops, Summer Schools and Conferences. To name a few, for the IEEE ITS Society he organised the TBMO 2010 Workshop at ITSC2010, co-organized the "Travel Behavior Research: Bounded Rationality and Behavioral Response" Special Session at ITSC2011, served as Publications Chair at the IEEE FISTS2011, Registration Chair at the IEEE ITSC2012 and Workshops and Tutorials Chair for IEEE ITSC 2013, Panels Chair for IEEE VTC-Fall 2013, Program co-chair for IEEE ITSC2014 and IEEE ITSC2016, Publicity Chair for IEEE IV2017, Program Chair for IEEE ICVES 2017 and Program Chair for IEEE ITSC2018. He also served as general chair for the IEEE ITSC2015, a record beating edition of IEEE ITSCs, hosted at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) on September 2015.

He has also contributed to the IEEE ITS Society as Founding Editor in Chief of the IEEE ITS Podcast from May 2013 to December 2016, and Editor in Chief of the IEEE ITS Newsletter during 2015 and 2016. He is serving as Vice President for Technical Activities for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society and President (terms 2017-2018 and 2019-2020). He served as President of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE ITS Society for 2017-2018, having served as Vice President during 2015 and 2016.

He has widely published his research, to the date with more than 35 international conference articles, 23 international journal articles (8 JCR Q1, 5 JCR D1) and 4 research chapters, being the main/first author of more than half of them. He has also being keynote speaker at three conferences (ANT2017, SOLI2017) and distinguished lecturer at the IEEE ITSS Tunisian Chapter in November, 2016.

As a professor, he has supervised or is supervising 7 Ph.D. Thesis, and More than 30 Masters or Degree Thesis.

https://javiersanchezmedina.ulpgc.es/

Experience

  • –present
    Profesor Titular de Universidad del departamento de Informática y Sistemas. Especialista en Sistemas de Transporte Inteligente, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Education

  • 2008 
    Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Doctor en ciencias de la computación e inteligencia artificial