Cecilia E. García Cena
UPM
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic, Automatic and Applied Physics Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain (2006-present) and the Vice Dean of Research and Doctorate program at the Higher Technical School of Engineering and Industrial Design, UPM, Spain (2021-present), as well as visiting professor at Beihang University, China (2019-2022). I’m research member of Centre for Automation and Robotics, one of the biggest research centers in robotics field in Europe
I received my B.S. degree in Electromechanical Engineering with the specialty in Industrial Automation (1997) from the National University of La Pampa, Argentina, and my PhD in Control Systems with focus on robotic system (2001) from the National University of San Juan, Argentina. In 2001, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Automation and Robotics Lab at UPM and in 2004 I was a Visiting Professor with the Robotics Laboratory at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. I have the intellectual property of 5 patents (one of them licensed internationally), have published than 50 articles in journals of high impact, 40 conference articles, 4 books and have participated in 20 competitive research projects, being the principal investigator in three of them. I have been the adviser of more than 130 undergraduate and master students, 6 PhD thesis (12 on-going).
Additionally, I am expert evaluator for the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programs, both in research and innovation projects in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence (2016-present). My main research interests include telerobotics, assistant robots, control of multi-agent systems and medical devices. In 2014, I received a national award for the best innovation technology in medical area. I have been working on the development of medical technologies using machine learning techniques to assist in the diagnose of neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer disease or Parkinson disease as well as other sensorimotor disorders. I was the founder and advisor of a spinoff company, Aura Innovative Robotics to transfer patented medical technology.
