Academic Background: PhD Degree in March 1994 in the Computer Science Department (Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Doctoral dissertation: MODELOS GEOMETRICOS DE APRENDIZAJE SUPERVISADO EN RECONOCIMIENTO DE FORMAS evaluated as Apto cum laude. Master Degree in Computer Science (Licenciatura en Informatica) in the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Year 1984-89. Positions: In 2003, Scientific Director of theInstituto Tecnológico de Informática. In 1998, Profesor Titular de Universidad in the Departamento de Informatica de Sistemas y ComputAdores of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In 1995, Profesor Titular de Escuela Universitaria Interino in the Departamento de Informatica de Sistemas y ComputAdores of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In 1993, Profesor Asociado en el Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Grants and Awards: Participation in the ACCOR (ESPRIT-BRA) project honored with the First "Premio de Estimulo a la Investigacion en Programas Europeos de I+D" in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. December, 1992. Research Award: "Premio ONCE-Santa Lucia 91" for the research work on aids to the visual handicapped. October 1991. Research grant: from the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia. January 1991 to December 1993. Research Award: First prize in the First National Computer Science Contest "Logic Control" for the work CONVERSOR DE TEXTO A VOZ PARA EL CASTELLANO (Text to Voice Conversion for Spanish). June 1990 Research grant: from the Regional Government of Valencia, Spain. December 1989 to December 1990. Research grant: from project ACCOR (ESPRIT-BRA) ACOUSTIC AND COARTICULATORY CORRELATIONS of the European Community. June to November, 1989. Collaboration Grant in Ford España, S.A: Industrial Education Course. September 1988. Affiliation to Scientific Societies: Member of the Spanish Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Society (SERFAI) since 1992. Afilliated to the "INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION" Member of the "INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS" (IEEE) since 1993. Member of the "SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS SOCIETY del IEEE" since 1993. Member of the "SPANISH CHAPTER OF THE NEURAL NETWORKS SOCIETY" del IEEE since 1993. Member of the "INTERNATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY" since 1992.