International Activities

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (Jan 2014 - Jan 2017).
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Newsletter (Jan 2013 - Jan 2014).
Member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Nov 2008 - Dec 2015).
Associate Editor of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (Nov 2011 - Jan 2014).
Member of the Editorial Board of The Open Transportation Journal.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS SPECIAL ISSUES - GUEST EDITOR

M. A. Sotelo, H. van Lint, U. Nunes, L. Vlacic, and M. Chowdhury. SI of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems on: Emergent Cooperative Technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems. March 2012.
M. A. Sotelo, M. Lu, and R. Toledo. SI of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine: Selection of Best papers in IEEE IV 2012. May 2013.
R. Toledo, D. Bètaille, and M. A. Sotelo. SI of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine: Selection of Best papers in IEEE IV 2012 Workshops. August 2013.
L. Vlacic, M. A. Sotelo, Z. Duric, E. Nebot. SI of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine: Selection of Best papers in IEEE IV 2013. May 2014.
Z. Li, M. A. Sotelo, F. G. Fernández, R. Malekian, Z. Hu. SI of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine: Practical sensing techniques for intelligent vehicles. 2019.

ASSOCIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

President of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (2018-2019).
Vice-President of Finance of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (2021-2022).
Member of the IEEE ITS Society Executive Committee (2013 - 2022).
Member of the IEEE ITS Society Board of Governors (Jan 2012 - Dec 2014).
Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems (RAS TC on Autonomous Ground Vehicles and ITS).
President of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE ITS Society (2015-2016).
Member of the IFAC TC7.4 Technical Committee on Transportation Systems.
Member of ITS-Spain University Committee.
Fellow of the IEEE.
Fellow of the AAIA (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association).

CONFERENCES ORGANIZATION

2022. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, General Co-Chair. Macao, China, October 2022.
2021. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, General Co-Chair. Indianapolis, USA, September 2021.
2021. International Conference on Electric Vehicle and Vehicle Engineering, General Chair. Frankfurt, Germany, September 2021.
2012. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, General Chair. Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 2012.
2018. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, General Co-Chair. Suzhou, China, June 2018.
2013. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Program Chair. Brisbane, Australia, June 2013.
2013. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Regional Program Chair for Europe. The Hague, The Netherlands, September 2013.
2014. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Publicity Chair. Qingdao, China, October 2014.
2015. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Program Chair. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, September 2015.
2016. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Awards Chair and Senior Advisor. Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2016.
2011. EUROCAST2011 Workshop on Computer Vision and Image Processing, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2011. Organizer.
2010. IEEE ITSC2010 Workshop on Emergent Cooperative Technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, September 2010. Co-organizer.
2009. EUROCAST2009 Workshop on Computer Vision and Image Processing. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2009. Organizer.
2007. EUROCAST2007 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2007. Live demonstration with autonomous vehicle (Autonomous Navigation & Pedestrian Detection).
2003. ITSWC2003, Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress, Madrid, Spain, November 2003. Live demonstration with autonomous vehicle (Autonomous Navigation & Stop&Go).
2002. IEEE IVS2002, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Versailles, France, June 2002. Live demonstration with autonomous vehicle (Lane Keeping).
2000. ALCABOT2000 Robot Competition Symposium. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. April 2000. Co-organizer.

KEYNOTE LECTURES

2022. “Road Users Behavior Prediction - The path towards trustworthy autonomous vehicles”. 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. Aachen, Germany. 2022.
2022. “Prediction of behavior in autonomous driving - The reality gap”. 2022 IEEE ICVES. Bogotá, Colombia. 2022.
2021. “Autonomous predictive driving”. 2021 ICTTE International Conference. Chengdu, China. 2021.
2021. “The role of Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Driving”. 2021 EDOSOFT Lectureship on Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 2021.
2021. “AI-based systems for advanced prediction of intentions of VRUs and vehicles”. 2021 ICITE International Conference. Beijing, China. 2021.
2021. “Behavior and trajectory prediction of VRUs and drivers in the context of self-driving cars”. 2021 IEEE IROS. Workshop on PNARUDE. Prague, Czech Republic. 2021.
2021. “Autonomous Driving - The need for understanding road users' behavior”. 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium - Workshop on ITSIVUE. Nagoya, Japan. 2021.
2021. “Advanced Motion Prediction for Self-Driving Cars”. 2021 International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions. Santa Maria de Feira, Portugal. 2021.
2021. “Socially Aware and Socially Consistent Vehicle Trajectory Prediction”. 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering. Beijing, China. 2021.
2021. “Multimodal Vehicle Trajectory Prediction”. 2021 International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering. Chengdu, China. 2021.
2020. “Lane Change Prediction - Artificial Intelligence vs Humans”. 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium - Workshop on ITSIVUE. Las Vegas, USA. 2020.
2020. “Advanced Prediction of Intentions for Self-driving Cars”. 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering. Beijing, China. 2020.
2020. “Lane Change Prediction - Artificial Intelligence vs Humans”. 2020 International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering. Naples, Italy. 2020.
2019. “Advanced Prediction of Intentions - A Key Feature for Efficient and Safer Autonomous Driving”. 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference. Auckland, New Zealand. 2019.
2019. “V2V and V2VRU Cooperation for Predictive Autonomous Driving”. 2019 IEEE ICVES. Cairo, Egypt. 2019.
2019. “Perception for Cooperative Automated Driving - Analysis of Practical Issues”. 2019 IEEE IV - Workshop on Interacting Automobiles. Paris, France. 2019.
2018. “Enhanced Protection of Vulnerable Road Users”. 2018 VEHITS International Conference. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, March 2018.
2018. “Intelligent Interaction between Vehicles and VRUs”. 2018 Summer School on Cooperative Interacting Vehicles. Loire Valley, France. September 2018.
2017. “Cooperative Autonomous Driving and Interaction with Vulnerable Road Users”. 2017 IEEE IROS Workshop on PPNIV. Vancouver, Canada, September 2017.
2017. “Enhanced Interacting Automobiles - Anticipating the Movements of Pedestrians for Enhanced Situation Prediction”. 2017 Summer School on Cooperative Interacting Automobiles. Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. August 2017.
2016. “Pedestrian Path Prediction and Action Classification for Advanced Performance of Autonomous Vehicles”. 2016 IEEE EATIS, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, April 2016.
2016. “Pasado, Presente y Futuro de los Vehículos Autónomos”. 2016 COMPDES, León, Nicaragua. July 2016.
2015. “The use of body language as a clue to pedestrian path prediction and action classification in the frame of intelligent vehicles”. 2015 Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, Bilbao, Spain. June 2015.
2014. “Pedestrian Path Prediction and Action Classification using Computer Vision and Body Language”. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing Communication and Processing. Cluj-Napoca, Romania. September 2014.
2014. “Pedestrian Path Prediction using Body Language Traits”. Chalmers University. Gothenburg, Sweden. February 2014.
2013. “VISUALISE - VISUAL Inspection of Signs and panEls”. 2013 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference. The Hague, The Netherlands. October 2013.
2013. “Prediction of Pedestrians Intentions”. Computer Vision Center. Barcelona. October 2013.
2013. “Toward recovering 3D structure from static images”. University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. February 2013.
2010. “Vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems”. University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Feb. 2013.
2009. “Computer Vision - The Never-ending Challenge”, EUROCAST2009 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2009.
2008. ”Advanced Techniques for Vision-based Pedestrian Recognition”, VIS2008 1st International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Simulation, Bucharest, Romania, November 2008.
2008. “Autonomous Road Vehicles”, HISPABOT2008, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, April 2008.
2007. “Computer Vision Techniques for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems - Applications and Trends”, ACS2007 International Conference on Applied Computer Science, Venice, Italy, November 2007.
1997. “Road Edge Detection using Computer Vision”, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Nov. 1997.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

2022. IEEE IV2022, Aachen, Germany, June 2022.
2021. IEEE IV2021, Nagoya, Japan, July 2021.
2020. IEEE IV2020, Las Vegas, USA, June 2020.
2019. IEEE IV2019, Paris, France, June 2019.
2018. IEEE IV2018, Suzhou, China, June 2018.
2017. IEEE IV2017, Redondo Beach, LA, USA, June 2017.
2017. ROBOT2017, Seville, Spain, November 2017.
2016. IEEE IV2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2016.
2015. FastZero2015, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2015.
2015. Robot2015, Second Iberian Robotics Conference, Lisbon, November 2015.
2015. SSIV2015, 1st International Workshop on Safety and Security of Intelligent Vehicles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2015.
2015. WCECS2015, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2015.
2014. IEEE IV2014, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Dearborn, USA, June 2014.
2014. Iberamia International Conference, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 2014.
2014. IEEE ICARS - ROBOTICA, IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Espinho, Portugal, May 2014.
2014. WCECS2014, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2014.
2013. IEEE ITSC2013, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2013.
2013. IEEE IV2013, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Gold Coast, Australia, June 2013.
2013. WCECS2013, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2013.
2012. IEEE Colombian Intelligent Transportation Systems Symposium 2012, Bogota, Colombia, August 2012.
2012. WCECS2012, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2012.
2011. IEEE ITSC2011, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Washington DC, USA, September 2011.
2011. IEEE IV2011, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Baden-Baden, Germany, June 2011.
2011. WCECS2011, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2011.
2010. IEEE ITSC2010, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, September 2010.
2010. ACM MEDES2010, International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Eco Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2010.
2010. WCECS2010, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2010.
2009. IEEE ITSC2009, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Saint Louis, USA, October 2009.
2009. WCECS2009, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2009.
2009. IROS 2009 Workshop on PPNIV Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles, Saint Louis, USA, October 2009.
2009. ACM MEDES2009, International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Ecosystems, Lyon, France, October 2009.
2009. IFAC Symposium on Control and Transportation Systems 2009, Long Beach, USA, September 2009.
2009. IEE IVS2009, IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, Xian, China, June 2009.
2009. ID-TIC 2nd Congress, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, April 2009.
2008. IEEE ITSC2008, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Beijing, China, October 2008.
2008. IEEE IROS Workshop on PPNIV Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles, Nice, France, September 2008.
2008. CSTST2008, International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, Paris, France, October 2008.
2008. WCECS2008, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2008.
2008. ID-TIC 1st Congress, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 2008.
2007. WCECS2007, World Conference on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, USA, October 2007.
2007. VISAPP2007 Workshop on Vision Applications - Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, April 2007.
2007. IEEE ICRA2007 Workshop on PPNIV Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles, Rome, Italy, April 2007.
2007. IEEE ITSC2007, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Seattle, USA, October 2007.
2006. IEEE ITSC2006, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 2006.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Head of the INVETT Research Group.
General Manager at the University of Alcalá. 2019-2022.
Vice-President for International Relations. University of Alcalá. 2014-2019.
President of the EUF - Campus Europae Foundation. Luxembourg. (2015-2018).
Director General of Guadalab Science and Technology Park. 2011-2012.
Head of the Robotics and e-Safety Research Group. 2006 - 2010.
CEO of Vision Safety Technologies Ltd (2009-2015).
Lecturer at the Delhi Technology University. Course on Intelligent Transportation Systems. November 2017.
Reviewer of iCompose FP7 European Project. 2014-2016.
Reviewer of Drive-C2X FP7 European Project in ICT for Cooperative Systems. 2010-2012.
Reviewer of INTERACTIVE FP7 European Project in ICT for Cooperative Systems. 2010-2012.
Reviewer of PRECIOSA FP7 European Project in ICT for Cooperative Systems. 2008-2010.
Reviewer of iTetris FP7 European Project in ICT for Cooperative Systems. 2009-2011.
Reviewer of SeVeCom FP6 European Project in ICT for Transport. 2007-2009.
Expert Evaluator of RTD Project proposals at the European Commission. FP7-ICT. Objective ICT 6.
International Evaluator of Research Groups of INRIA, Paris, France. March 2017.
Rapporteur of RTD Project proposals at the European Commission. FP7- Research for SMEs.