Head
Head of the Mapir-UMA group
e-mail: javiergonzalez [at] uma.es
Web: http://mapir.isa.uma.es/jgonzalez
Phone:+34 952132724
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Short bio
Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez is the head of the Machine Perception and Intelligence Robotics (MAPIR-UMA group) and a full professor (Catedratico) at the University of Malaga. He has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sevilla, and a Ph.D. in Control Systems and Robotics from the University of Malaga. During his PhD he spent one year at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) working on mobile robots. He has been leading Spanish and European projects on mobile robotics and perception for more than 25 years. His research interest includes mobile robot autonomous navigation, computer vision, and robotic olfaction. In these fields, he has co-authored more than 250 scientific works, including three books and more than 100 SCI-JCR journal papers.
Ongoing projects I’m leading
- ARPEGGIO: Advanced Robotic Perception for Mapping and Localization (Sep’21 – Feb’25). (Funded by the Spanish Research Agency)
- MINDMAPS: Semantic topometric maps as models of the environment for intelligent robots (1 Sep’24 – 31 Aug27). (Funded by the Spanish Research Agency)
Current PhD Students
- Gregorio Ambrosio-Cestero (co-supervised by JR. Ruiz-Sarmiento)
- Jose Luis Matez (co-supervised by Javier G.Monroy)
- Jose Ojeda (co-supervised by Javier G.Monroy)
Former PhD Students
- Andres Galeote (May 2024) (co-supervised by JR. Ruiz-Sarmiento)
- Mercedes Garcia-Salguero (April 2024)
- Alberto Jaenal (2023) (co-supervised by FA Moreno)
- Jesus Briales (2021)
- Andres Gongora (2021) (co-supervised by Javier G.Monroy)
- Ruben Gomez-Ojeda (2020)
- Manuel Lopez-Antequera(2020) (co-supervised by Nicolai Petkov)
- Mariano Jaimez (2017) (co-supervised with Daniel Cremers)
- Jose Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento (2016) (co-supervised by C Galindo)
- Francisco Moreno (2015) (co-supervised by JL Blanco)
- Eduardo Fernandez-Moral (2014) (co-supervised by V. Arevalo)
- Javier G. Monroy(2013)(co-supervised by JL Blanco)
- José Luis Blanco (2009) (co-supervised by JA Fernandez-Madrigal)
- Vicente Arévalo (2008)
- Cipriano Galindo (2006) (co-supervised by JA Fernandez-Madrigal)
- Antonio Reina (2001)
- Juan Antonio Fernandez-Madrigal (2000)
Teaching ( in “Campus Virtual” – restricted access)
- Computer vision (Ingenieria Informática)
- Robotics (Ingenieria Informática)
- Perception Systems (Master in Mechatronics Engineering)
