Professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Artificial Intelligence R&D+i Centre at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca.

He has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College (USA), Osaka Institute of Technology (Japan), and IRIT–University of Toulouse (France). He has supervised 19 doctoral theses and participated in more than 81 research projects funded through programmes such as FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe, EDF, EDA, EIT, CEF, as well as national and regional initiatives.

He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications. His research areas include Social Intelligence, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Neurotechnology, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.

He is also involved in innovation activities, mainly through EIT Digital projects, the European Digital Innovation Hub EDIH2.0 of the Community of Madrid, and the NATO DIANA Test Centre for Neurotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, among others.