Dr. Vicente González-Ruiz is associate professor in the Informatics Department of the University of Almería. He received an M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Granada in 1992, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Almería in
Dr. González-Ruiz has experience in image and video coding and transmision, contributing to open source projects such as the P2PSP protocol (https://es.wikipedia.org /wiki/P2PSP), the Google Summer of Code program, the ESA Summer of Code in Space program, and the JHelioviewer project (https://www.jhelioviewer.org/). He has been working also in signal processing applications, specifically in interpolation and denoising algorithms used in microscopy. He is also contributing to the development of AI applications designed to help disabled people, such as detecting falls of improving the interaction of user in smart environments. He works also experience in the development of sofware used in astronomical centers.
Apart from his interaction with researches of the Supercomputación-Algoritmos research group, Dr. González-Ruiz has collaborated with the CSIC in the field of image transmission and denoising, with the ESA in the field of image coding and transmission (JHelioviewer project), and with the Centro Astronómico de Calar Alto (Almería) in the field of image acquisition and processing, among other universities and research centers.
As it can be ckecked in its Curriculum Vitae, Dr. González Ruiz as co-authored at least 100 research papers, of which at least 19 has been published in JCR-indexed journals. He has participated in at least 27 reseach projects, being the IP in at least one of them. He has participated in at leas 11 transference open-projects, being the IP in at least 9 of them. He has participated in at least 5 contracts, 3 as IP. He is the IP of the Unidad de Supercomputación, Procesamiento de Imagen y Nanotomografía (USPIN). He has supervised 5 PhD thesis and is supervising another 5.
As a teacher, Dr. González-Ruiz has more then 30 years of experience at the UAL in more than 10 different subjects and have supervised more than 30 final degree projects.