Professor Luis Vergara received his degree in Telecommunications Engineering and is a Doctor of Telecommunications Engineering (PhD) from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in 1980 and 1983, respectively. Until 1992, he worked at the Department of Signals, Systems and Radiocommunications (UPM) as an Associate Professor. In 1992, he joined the Department of Communications (Polytechnic University of Valencia, UPV, Spain), where he became a Full Professor and Head of Department until April 2004. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (I-TEAM) of the UPV. His research interests focus on statistical signal processing, particularly algorithms for detector and classifier fusion, independent component analysis, and graph signal processing. These algorithms are applied to a wide range of problems, such as quality control in industrial processes, acoustic monitoring, infrared and video surveillance, biomedicine, and financial data processing. He has over 250 publications, including peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference presentations. He is the co-author of six patents and has supervised 16 doctoral theses. He has participated in numerous projects and contracts with industry, both nationally and internationally.

Addisson Salazar received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 2011. He received his MSc. degree in Artificial Intelligence and DEA in Telecommunications from UPV in 2020 and 2003, respectively. He has been a Scientific Leader of main research and technological transfer projects involving big and small data. He has proposed solutions for different and challenging real-life problems, such as neurological dynamic behavior modeling for the diagnosis of epilepsy and sleep disorders; non-destructive testing (NDT) for quality evaluation of construction, archaeological ceramics, and defect detection in steam generator tubes at nuclear plants; and automatic credit card fraud detection. He has been a member of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications, UPV since 2007. He has supervised three Ph.D. theses. His publications consist of over 130 papers including journals, patents, books, book chapters, and conference contributions. His current research interests include statistical signal processing; machine learning; multimodal decision fusion; data augmentation; pattern recognition; and graph signal processing algorithms.