Pedro J. Sanz Valero
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e-Mail: sanzp AT ieee.org Office: TI-2103-DD, Robotic Intelligence Laboratory, Universitat Jaume I Address: Avda. Vicente Sos Baynat s/n, E-12071, Castelló, Spain Tel: +34 964 728 285 Fax: +34 964 728 486 Personal Web Page: http://www3.uji.es/~sanzp/
Pedro J. Sanz is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Jaume-I University (Spain), researcher at the Robotic Intelligence Lab and head of the Multimedia Research Group. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics by the University of Valencia (1985, Spain), M.Sc in Engineering (CAD/CAM) from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1989, Spain) and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering by the Jaume I University of Castellon (1996, Spain). His current research interests are Sensory-Guided Grasping, Telerobotics and Human-Robot Interaction. Dr. Sanz was a 1996 recipient of the “Best Thesis in Electronics and Computer Science Domains”, National Research Prize, from the “Artigas Spanish Foundation” (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain). Dr. Sanz has been active since 1990 in R&D within several projects on Advanced Robotics and Multimedia Interfaces. He is author or co-author of a broad range of research publications and is a member of different scientific societies such as IEEE Robotics and Automation, IEEE Computer Society, IAPR, AERFAI (Spanish Association of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis), ECCAI and AEPIA (Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence).
He has been appointed as Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems (Technische Universität München, GERMANY), periods in 2000 and 2001, and at LASMEA (Le LAboratoire des Sciences et Matériaux pour l'Electronique et d'Automatique, Univ. Blaise Pascal, FRANCE), in 2002. More recently a Sabbatical Period was realized during 2008 at LAR-DEIS (Laboratory of Automation and Robotics of D.E.I.S., Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems of the University of Bologna, Italy).
He was a member of the organizing committee of the 11th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (IEA-AIE'98). Chair of several Tutorials and Workshops within outstanding International Conferences on Robotics. Co-chair of the Interest Group on Manipulation and grasping within EURON and EURON II. Dr. Sanz has served as program committee member of several international conferences and Guest editor of some well-known international journals. Nowadays, Dr. Sanz is Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (C), since 2005 and IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, since 2008.
