Prof. Dr. Javier Serrano
An associate professor of Signal Theory and Communications at the University Autonomous of Barcelona (on leave), he researches in the area of quantum computing developing the middleware for the control and measurement of transmond qubits. He graduated in Computer Science in 1988, and received a Ph.D. (1994) degree in Automatic Control (Computer Science Program) at UAB. He was the Educational Director and Project Manager in Speech Technologies at Center for Ambient Intelligence and Accessibility of Catalonia (CaiaC), a research center and a technology transfer node from the Catalan IT network. He also was the Director of the Infoaccessibility Service at UAB. Dr. Serrano has expertise in model predictive control, speech technologies, medical data analytics and quantum computing publishing in recognized international journals and conference proceedings, and participating in national and international projects.