UPM

Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain – WP2 Leader

The Technical University of Madrid is the largest and oldest of the technical universities in Spain. More than 2.400 researchers carry out their activity at the UPM, grouped in more than 200 Research Groups, 20 Research Centers or Institutes and 55 Laboratories, all of them committed to transform the knowledge generated into innovation advances applied to the production sector. UPM obtained the 'HR Excellence in Research Award' within the European Commission Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) initiative to recognize institutions which make progress in aligning their human resources policies to the 40 principles of the European Charter & Code for recruitment of researchers. UPM signs around 600 contracts with private businesses, due to its traditional and close relationship with the industrial and business sector, which supports and backs its research and technology development. UPM's highly innovation driven commitment is shown by the application for around 40 patents/year thanks to its Technology Transfer Office and by the generation around 20 spinoffs/year (70% survival rate) trained and mentored by the UPM Center for Innovation Support. Moreover, UPM is highly committed to communication and outreach with a specific unit devoted to it. UPM graduates around 5.000 students every year, of whom 20% have participated in international mobility programs.

TUAI key person

Prof David Camacho is full professor at Computer Systems Engineering Department of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), and the head of the Applied Intelligence and Data Analysis research group (AIDA) at UPM. His research interests include Machine Learning (Clustering/Deep Learning), Computational Intelligence (Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence), Social Network Analysis, Fake News and Disinformation Analysis. He has participated/led more than 50 research projects (Spanish and European: H2020, DG Justice, ISFP, and Erasmus+), related to the design and application of artificial intelligence methods for data mining and optimization for problems emerging in industrial scenarios, aeronautics, aerospace engineering, cybercrime/cyber intelligence, social networks applications, or video games among others. He serves as Editor in Chief of Wiley's Expert Systems from 2023 and sits on the Editorial Board of several journals including Information Fusion, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (IEEE TETCI), Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), and Cognitive Computation among others.