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Welcome to my personal page. Currently, I am associate professor (interim) in the Signal Theory and Communications Department in the University Carlos III Madrid.

My research interests include robust speech recognition, especially over communication channels, video and speech coding, multimedia information retrieval, machine learning and data analysis tools like Formal Concept Analysis.  New! Visit our demo to analyse confusion matrices with k-FCA.

Undergraduate Education

March, 1997, obtained my Engineering degree in Telecommunications from the State University of Navarre (Universidad Pública de Navarra), Spain.

From Sept. to Dec., 1996, realized my Final Year Project in the Westminster University, London (UK).

Contact info:

Address:

    Escuela Politécnica Superior

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    Avda. Universidad, 30

    28911 Leganés (Madrid) Spain

Telephone:    +34 91 624 8771

Fax: +34 91 624 8749

e-mail: carmen at tsc.uc3m.es

Postgraduate Education

From June, 1997 to Jan., 1998, enjoyed a research grant funded by Northern Telecom to collaborate in the project entitled “Speech recognition using RBF networks” in the Signal Theory and Communications Department of the University Carlos III of Madrid.

From Feb., 1998 to Sept., 2001, enjoyed a postgraduate grant from the University Carlos III of Madrid Foundation (Fundación Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

In February, 2002, received my PhD degree in Communication Technologies from the University Carlos III of Madrid. The dissertation was entitled “Reconocimiento de habla mediante transparametrización: una alternativa robusta para entornos móviles e IP” (Speech Recognition by transparameterization: a robust alternative for mobile and IP environments)

Postdoctoral Education

From Jul.,2003 – Sep. 2003, enjoyed a research stay at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Great Britain) hosted by Prof. Fabio Crestani to explore vocal information access methodologies and difficulties.

From March, 2004 – Dec. 2004, participated in the 2004 International Computer Science Institute’s (ICSI) Fellowship Program for Spanish researchers as part of the Speech Group.

From June 2006 -Sep 2006, returned to ICSI, Berkeley, California, for a short research stay.