Rafael García

RAFAEL GARCIA graduated in computer engineering in June 1994 at the Autonoma University of Barcelona (UAB), received the DEA (MSc) in Computer Science in July 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering in 2001, both at the University of Girona (UdG), Spain. His research activity mainly focuses on robotics in topics such as Machine Learning, robot mapping, sensor fusion and 3D reconstruction. Prof. Garcia is the director of the Computer Vision and Robotics Group (VICOROB) of the University of Girona, where he was appointed as Full Professor in 2019. He has been visiting researcher at the Universität der Bundeswehr (Germany), University College Cork (Ireland), IRISA-INRIA (France), and the University of Miami (USA). Prof. Garcia is involved in several national and transnational projects in the field of robotics and computer vision and has participated in the creation of two spin-off companies.