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Fernando Javier Álvarez Franco

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Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation

Faculty of Science. University of Extremadura

Office B108 Physics Building

Tel: +34924289300 (Ext. 86830)

Education:

        - BSc and MSc in Physics. Faculty of Physics, University of Seville
        - MSc in Electronics Engineering. School of Industrial Engineers, University of Extremadura
        - Master in Signal Theory and Communications. School of Telecommunication Engineers, University of Vigo
        - PhD in Electronics, University of Alcalá

Awards:

- Best final degree project of the Electronic Engineering degree
- Best doctoral thesis in the field of experimental Physics

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This picture was taken during a sabbatical stay in the

Intelligent Sensors Laboratory at Yale University (2008)

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Subjects :

	Electronics. BSc in Physics (3rd year).
	Laboratory of Electronics. BSc in Physics (4th year).
	Electronics and Automation Engineering. BSc in Industrial Chemical Engineering (2nd year).

Office hours (students):

	Tuesday from 12:00 to 14:00.
	Thursday from 12:00 to 14:00
	Friday from 12:00 to 14:00 .

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- Ph.D. Thesis

"Complementary sets of sequences coding of ultrasonic emissions for outdoor applications". March, 2006.

- Fields of research

	Development of ultrasonic sensory systems.
	Digital signal processing of acoustic signals.
	Reconfigurable architectures.

- Research projects

	Development of an intelligent guide for museums based on the recognition of ultrasonic signals with portable devices (GUIMUS)
	Exploration of new environments and technologies in the design of localization cooperative systems for people and objects (LORIS-UEx)
	Development of propagation models, encoding schemes and biomimetic processing algorithms for the ultrasonic signals of a Local Positioning System intended for extensive environments (LEMUR-UEx)
	New techniques of espectral analysis in ultrasonic sensors (ANESUS)
	Absolute positioning of mobile robots indoors (PARMEI)
	Multisensorial intelligent system for obstacle detection in railways (VIATOR)
	Improving the reliability of spatio-temporal redundant sensory arrays (MEFASRET)
	Acoustic, vision and RFID sensory networks fusion to perform location in intelligent environments (RESELAI)
	Use of genetics algorithms and BOINC architecture to optimase classification systems
	Advanced planification of harvest time production
	CAD system to diagnose masses in mammograms using softcomputing and distributed computing

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Articles in International Journals

2014

	Joaquín Aparicio, Ana Jiménez, Fernando J. Álvarez, Jesús Ureña, Carlos de Marziani, Daniel de Diego, Nuno Cruz and Helder Campos. "Accurate Detection of Spread-Spectrum Modulated Signals in Reverberant Underwater Environments", accepted for publication in Applied Acoustics.
	Enrique García, José Antonio Paredes, Fernando J. Álvarez, Mª Carmen Pérez and Juan Jesús García. "Spreading Sequences in Active Sensing: A Review", accepted for publication in Signal Processing.

2013

Fernando J. Álvarez , Álvaro Hernández, José A. Moreno, M. Carmen Pérez, Jesús Ureña and Carlos De Marziani. " Doppler-tolerant receiver for an ultrasonic LPS based on Kasami sequences", Sensors and Actuators A, vol. 189, pp. 238-253, 2013.

2012

	Teodoro Aguilera, Jesús Lozano, José A. Paredes, Fernando J. Álvarez and José I. Suárez. "Electronic Nose Based on Independent Component Analysis Combined with Partial Least Squares and Artificial Neural Network", Sensors, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 8055-8072, 2012.
	Carlos De Marziani, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Juan J. García, Fernando J. Álvarez, Ana Jiménez, Mª Carmen Pérez, José M. Villadangos, Joaquín Aparicio and Rómulo Alcoleas."Simultaneous Round-Trip Time-of-Flight Measurements with Encoded Acoustic Signals", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 2931-2940, october 2012.
	M. Carmen Pérez, Rebeca Sanz, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Carlos De Marziani and Fernando J. Álvarez. "Correlator Implementation for Orthogonal CSS used in an Ultrasonic LPS", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 2807-2816, september 2012..

2011

	Joaquín Aparicio, Ana Jiménez, Fernando J. Álvarez, Jesús Ureña, Carlos De Marziani and Cristina Diego. "Modeling the behavior of an underwater acoustic relative positioning system based on complementary set of sequences", Sensors, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 11188-11205, November 2011.
	José A. Paredes, Teodoro Aguilera, Fernando J. Álvarez, Jesús Lozano and Jorge Morera. "Analysis of Doppler Effect on the Pulse Compression of Different Codes Emitted by an Ultrasonic LPS", Sensors, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 10765-10784, November 2011.
	Fernando J. Álvarez, Roman Kuc and Teodoro Aguilera. "Identifying fabrics with a variable emission airborne sonar", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1905-1912, September 2011.
	Carlos de Marziani, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Juan Jesús García, Fernando J. Álvarez, Ana Jiménez and Mª Carmen Rubio. "Recursive algorithm to directly obtain the sum of correlations in a CSS", Signal Processing, vol. 91, pp. 1343-1346, 2011

2010

	J. Jesús García, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Manuel Mazo, J. Antonio Jiménez, Fernando J. Álvarez, Carlos De Marziani, Ana Jiménez, Mª Jesús Díaz, Cristina Losada and Enrique García. "Efficient Multi-sensory barrier for obstacle detection on railways", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 702-713, September 2010.
	M. Carmen Pérez, Jesús Ureña, Carlos De Marziani, Álvaro Hernández, Juan J. García and Fernando J. Álvarez. "Very efficient correlator for Loosely Synchronized codes", Electronics Letters, vol. 46, no. 16, pp. 1127-1129, August 2010.
	J. Jesús García, Jesús Ureña, Manuel Mazo, Felipe Espinosa, Álvaro Hernández, Cristina Losada, Ana Jiménez, Carlos De Marziani, Fernando J. Álvarez and Enrique García."Sensory system for obstacle detection on high-speed lines", Transportation research part C- Emerging technologies, vol. 18C, no. 4, pp. 536-553, August 2010.

2009

	Carlos De Marziani, Jesús Urena, Álvaro Hernández, Manuel Mazo, Juan J. García , Ana Jiménez, M. Carmen Pérez, Fernando J. Álvarez and José M. Villadangos. "Acoustic Sensor Network for Relative Positioning of Nodes", Sensors, vol. 9, pp. 8490-8507, October 2009.
	Álvaro Hernández, Jesús Ureña, Manuel Mazo, Juan J. García, Ana Jiménez, José A. Jiménez, Mª Carmen Pérez, Fernando J. Álvarez, Carlos De Marizani, J. P. Derutin, J. Serot. "Advanced Adaptive Sonar for Mapping Applications", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 81-106, June 2009.
	Fernando J. Álvarez and Roman Kuc. "High resolution adaptive spiking sonar", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency control, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 1024-1033, May 2009.

2008

	Ana Jiménez, Álvaro Hernández, Jesús Ureña, M. Carmen Pérez, Fernando J. Álvarez, Carlos de Marziani, Juan J. García and J Manuel Villadangos. "EMFi-based ultrasonic transducer for robotics applications", Sensors & Actuators A: Physical, vol. 148, pp.342-349, November 2008.
	Fernando J. Álvarez, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Manuel Mazo and Juan J. García. "Influence of atmospheric refraction on the performance of an outdoor ultrasonic pulse compression system", Applied Acoustics, vol. 69, pp. 994-1002, November 2008.
	Mª Carmen Pérez, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Fernando J. Álvarez, Ana Jiménez and Carlos de Marziani. "Efficient Correlator for LS Codes generated from orthogonal CSS", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 12, no.10, pp. 764-766, October 2008.
	Fernando J. Álvarez and Roman Kuc. "Dispersion relation for air via Kramers-Kronig analysis", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 124, no. 2, pp. EL57-EL61, August 2008.

2007

	Álvaro Hernández Alonso, Fernando J. Álvarez, Jesús Ureña, Manuel Mazo, Juan J. García and Ana Jiménez. "Reduction of blind zone in ultrasonic transmitter/receiver", Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, vol.133, no.1, pp. 96-103, 2007.
	Carlos De Marziani, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Manuel Mazo, Fernando J. Álvarez, Juan J. García and P. Donato. "Modular Architecture for Efficient Generation and Correlation of Complementary Set of Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 5, pp.2323-2337, 2007
	Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Ana Jiménez, José M. Villadangos, Manuel Mazo, Juan Carlos García, Juan Jesús García, Fernando J. Álvarez, Carlos de Marziani, Mª Carmen Pérez, José Antonio Jiménez, Antonio Jiménez and Fernando Seco. "Advanced Sensorial System for an Acoustic LPS", Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 31, pp.393-401, 2007.
	Horacio M. González, Carlos J. García, Miguel Macías, Ramón Gallardo and Fernando J. Álvarez. "A method for interactive shape detection in cattle images using genetic algorithms", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4673, pp.694-701, 2007.
	Fernando J. Álvarez, Horacio M. González, Carlos J. García, Miguel Macías and Ramón Gallardo. "Using GAs to Obtain an Optimal Set of Codes for an Ultrasonic Local Positioning System", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4739, pp.845-852, 2007.

2006

	Fernando J. Álvarez, Álvaro Hernández, Jesús Ureña, Manuel Mazo, Juan J. García, José A. Jiménez and Ana Jiménez. "Real-Time implementation of an efficient correlator for complementary sets of four sequences", Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 30, no.1, pp. 43-5, 2006.
	Fernando J. Álvarez, Jesús Ureña, Manuel Mazo, Álvaro Hernández, Juan J. García and Carlos De Marziani. "High Reliability Outdoor Sonar Prototype Based on Efficient Signal Coding", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, vol. 53, no.10, pp. 1862-187, 2006.

2005

José A. Jiménez, Manuel Mazo, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández, Fernando J. Álvarez, Juan J. García and Enrique Santiso."Using PCA in Time-of-Flight Vectors for Reflector Recognition and 3D-Localization", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 21, no.5, pp. 900-924, 2005

2004

Fernando J. Álvarez, Jesús Ureña, Manuel Mazo, Álvaro Hernández, Juan J. García, José A. Jiménez. "Efficient generator and pulse compressor for complementary sets of four sequences". IEE Electronic Letters, vol. 40, no. 11, 2004.

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Almendralejo (my village).

$Descripción: C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Web_personal\image\bola azul.gif$	University of Extremadura.
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$Descripción: C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Web_personal\image\bola azul.gif$	Electronics Deparment at the University of Alcalá.
$Descripción: C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Web_personal\image\bola azul.gif$	Active perception laboratory at the University of Antwerp.
$Descripción: C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Web_personal\image\bola azul.gif$	LASMEA laboratoy at Blaise-Pascal University.
$Descripción: C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Web_personal\image\bola azul.gif$	Intelligent Sensors laboratory at Yale University.

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Created on May 21, 2009

Last updated: August 20, 2014