Currently, Rubén is full professor at the department of Electronic Engineering at ETSIT of UPM, vice-director of the Information Processing and Telecommunication Center (IPTC), coordinator of the Bsc in Data Engineering and Systems and member of the Speech Technology Group (GTH) at the ETSIT. His research interests are speech technology, assistive technologies for disabled people (Sign Language) and human sensing technologies.

Rubén San-Segundo received his MSEE degree from Technical University of Madrid in 1997, and Ph.D. degrees from the same university in 2002 (with highest distinction). During 1999 and 2000, Ruben did two summer stays in The Center of Spoken Language Research (CSLR) at the University of Colorado (Boulder), as visiting PhD student. During these stays, he worked in confidence measures at the CU Communicator System. From Sep. 2001 through Feb. 2003, Rubén worked at the Speech Technology Group of the Telefónica I+D. During this period, he worked in confidence estimation for speech recognition, acoustic modelling of speech, and he was involved in the design of several services considering these technologies. Ruben collaborated in the definition of proposals for new research projects.

Rubén has been the Coordinator of the Spanish Network on Speech Technologies (www.rthabla.es) and vice-chair of the Special Interest Group of ISCA on Iberian Languages (http://www.il-sig.org/). Rubén has been the Principal Investigator of the project: “Speech in to Sign Language Translation” (www.traduccionvozlse.es).

Rubén has got a MECD/ Fulbright grant for a postdoctoral stay at the Human Sensing Laboratory at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie and Mellon University.

Regarding the research contributions, Rubén San-Segundo has 3 six-years research periods (sexenios de investigación) and 1 six-years transfer period (sexenio de transferencia). Rubén has published 52 JCR journal papers (12 in collaboration with international institutions) and more than 100 conference papers (70 international papers). Rubén has a H-index of 25 in Google Scholar (2500 cites), 17 in Scopus and 14 in Web of Science. Rubén is coauthor of 2 patents (one of them commercialized by Boeing Company). The main contributions are:

- Development of the first speech recognition system for spelled names in Spanish.

- A methodology for designing spoken language systems

- The first system for translating spoken Spanish into Spanish Sign Language.

- Relevant contributions in Human Activity Recognition using non-intrusive inertial sensors.

Rubén has reviewed more than 100 journal papers and more than 200 conference papers. Rubén has also evaluated 5 ANEP projects, and 2 projects from other EU countries like Netherlands and Ireland.

Rubén has supervised more than 30 master thesis and 2 Phd thesis (supervising a third one):

- Design, development and evaluation of machine translation systems to reduce communication barriers for deaf people (2014). Author: Verónica López-Ludeña. This thesis has received the ORANGE Foundation award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in New Technologies Applied to Digital Inclusion and Promotion of Independent Living. Award for the best article in Speech Technology in 2014. Publications: 7 JCRs (6 first author and 4 Q1), 10 International congresses (9 first author)

- Analysis, characterization, and detection techniques of voice signals in adverse acoustic environments (2012). Author: Oscar Varela Sainz. Publications: 2 journal articles with JCR (2 first author) and 2 articles in international conferences (2 first author) (at Telefónica I + D)

- Contributions to Human Activity Recognition using wearable sensors. Author: Manuel Gil-Martín. 10 JCR papers (8 first author) and 3 in international conferences (3 first author)

Rubén has been Principal Investigator of in 11 R&D projects (5 with companies), collaborating in 28 R&D projects: 1 international, 3 international projects with public funding, 4 national projects for business and 20 national projects with public funding. At Telefónica I+D, Rubén has been developer / researcher in 4 R&D projects with different companies.

Part C. RELEVANT MERITS (sorted by typology)

C.1. Publications

Time Analysis in Human Activity Recognition. M. Gil-Martín, R. San-Segundo, F. Fernández-Martínez, J. Ferreiros-López Neural Processing Letters, 2021. (JCR 2020: 2.908 Q2: 63/140).

Parkinson's Disease Tremor Detection in the Wild Using Wearable Accelerometers. R. San-Segundo, A. Zhang, A. Cebulla, S. Panev, G. Tabor, K. Stebbins, R.E. Massa, A. Whitford, F. de la Torre, J. Hodgins. Sensors 2020, 20, 5817 (JCR 2020: 3.576 Q1: 14/64)

Robust Biometrics from Motion Wearable Sensors Using a D-vector Approach. M. Gil-Martín, R. San-Segundo, R. de Córdoba, J. M. Pardo. Neural Processing Letters, 2020, doi.org/10.1007/s11063-020-10339-z. (JCR 2020: 2.908 Q2: 63/140)

Improving physical activity recognition using a new deep learning architecture and post-processing techniques. M. Gil-Martín, R. San-Segundo, F. Fernández-Martínez, J. Ferreiros-López. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol.92 2020, (JCR 6.212. Q1: 7/91)

Segmenting Human Activities based on HMMs using Smartphone Inertial Sensors  Rubén San-Segundo, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Beatriz Martínez-González, José Manuel Pardo. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Vol 30, 2016, Pp 84–96 (Q2: 23/82. JCR=1.719)

Feature extraction from smartphone inertial signals for human activity segmentation. Rubén San-Segundo, Juan Manuel Montero, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Fernando Fernández, José Manuel Pardo. Signal Processing. Vol. 120, 2016, pp 359–372 (Q1: 49/249. JCR=2.209)

Translating Bus Information into Sign Language for Deaf People. Verónica López-Ludeña; Carlos González-Morcillo; Juan C López; Roberto Barra-Chicote; Ricardo Córdoba; Rubén San-Segundo. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 32, 2014, pages 258–269. (Q1:12/85. JCR=1.625)

Methodology for Developing an Advanced Communications System for the Deaf in a New Domain. V. López-Ludeña, C. González-Morcillo, J.C. López, E. Ferreiro, J. Ferreiros, R. San-Segundo Knowledge-Based Systems. vol 56, 2014, pp 240–252 (JCR: 4.1. Q1 16/123).

C.2. Congress

Adaptation and Selection Techniques Based on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition Using Inertial Sensors. Manuel Gil-Martín, José Antúnez-Durango and Rubén San-Segundo. 7th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 14–28 2020;

Human Activity Recognition Based on Deep Learning Techniques. Manuel Gil-Martín, Marcos Sánchez-Hernández and Rubén San-Segundo. 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 15–30 November 2019.

Automated tremor detection in Parkinson’s Disease using accelerometer signals. Ada Zhang, Rubén San-Segundo, Stanislav Panev, Griffin Tabor,Katelyn Stebbins, Andrew S. Whitford, Fernando De la Torre, Jessica K. Hodgins, Oral presentation at CHASE 2018.

Influence of Transition Cost in the Segmentation Stage of Speaker Diarization. B. Martínez-González, J.M. Pardo, R. San-Segundo, J.M. Montero. Odyssey 2016, June 21-24, pp 385-392, 2016, Bilbao, Spain. ISSN: 2312-2846.

Random Forest-Based Prediction of Parkinson's Disease Progression Using Acoustic, ASR and Intelligibility Features. A. Zlotnik, J. M. Montero, R. San-Segundo and A. Gallardo-Antolin.  Interspeech 2015, 16TH Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, pp. 503-507, Dresden (Germany), 6-10 September.

Development of a Genre-Dependent TTS System with Cross-Speaker Speaking-Style Transplantation. J. Lorenzo-Trueba, J. D. Echeverry-Correa, R. Barra-Chicote, R. San-Segundo, J. Ferreiros, A. Gallardo-Antolín, J. Yamagishi, S. King and J. M. Montero. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM2014), Penang-Malaysia 11-12 September 2014, ISBN: 978-967-394-199-5.

C.3. Research projects

AMIC "Affective analysis of multimedia information with inclusive and natural communication": (TIN2017-85854-C4-4-R) (1-Jan. 2018 - 31-Dec. 2020). Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.  € 82,400 (GTH). PI: Rubén San-Segundo and Javier Ferreiros López.

ASLP-MULAN "Audio, speech and language processing for multimedia information analysis": (TIN2014-54288-C4-1-R) (Jan. 2015 - Dec. 2017). Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. € 121,000 (GTH). PI: Javier Ferreiros López.

SIMPLE4ALL "Speech synthesis that improves through adaptive learning". (Grant No. 287678) (Nov. 2011 - Nov. 2013). EU. € 400,000 (GTH). PI: Juan Manuel Montero Martínez.

TIMPANO-UPM "Technology for complex human-machine conversational interaction with dynamic learning": (TIN2011-28169-C05-03) (Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2014). Ministry of Science and Technology. € 120,000 (GTH). PI: Javier Ferreiros López.

C.4. Contracts, technological or transfer merits

Contracts:

- Consultancy for NEXPLORE company. € 60,000. PI: José Manuel Pardo Muñoz. And Consultancy for DIMATICA company. € 2,000. PI: Rubén San Segundo Hernández.

- ConSignos: Automatic Sign Language Converter and Player (TSI-020100-2010-489) (1-Oct. 2010 - 31-Dec. 2012). Ministry of Science and Technology. € 59,985 (GTH-UPM). PI Rubén San Segundo Hernández.

Patents:

Víctor Pérez, Javier Ferreiros, Rubén San-Segundo, David Scarlatii, Roberto Molina. Title: VEHICLE CONTROL. Application number: 07380260.5 Priority country: USA Priority date: 09/21/2007. Patent No.: US 8,311,827 B2. Grant Date: 11/13/2012. Owner entity: BOEING.

San-Segundo, JM Montero, J. Ferreiros, R, Córdoba, JM Pardo. Title: Method and system to incorporate binaural acoustic information in an augmented reality visual system. Application number: P201031215 Priority country: Spain Priority date: 08/04/2010. Patent number: 2 347 517. Grant date: 05/06/2011. Owner entity: UPM.