F. Fernández received his M.S.E.E. (2002) and Ph.D. (2008) degrees from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), both with highest distinctions. Since 2002 Fernando has been member of the Speech Technology Group at UPM, where he is currently an assistant professor. During 2006, Fernando stayed as a Ph.D. student at The IDIAP Research Institute affiliated with the “Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne” (EPFL) and the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His research interests focus on multimodal spoken dialogue systems and social signal processing. Dr. Martínez is member of the EUCogII network.