Javier Civera earned his Ph.D. title in the University of Zaragoza. Since 2012 is Associate Professor in its Computer Science and System Engineering department, where he teaches courses on Control Engineering and Vision. His research interests are within computer vision, machine learning and robotics. He has co-authored +40 publications in journals and international conferences (over 3,500 references in Google Scholar). He has participated and leaded several search projects with regional, national and European funding and several transfer projects with national and international companies. He has been funded for two research visits, at Imperial College in London (2007, Prof. Andrew J. Davison) and at ETH in Zürich (2011, Prof. Vittorio Ferrari). He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering from 2015 to 2017 and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters from 2016 to date. He has also served as Associate Editor in ICRA 2013 and 2019, and IROS 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, and co-organized 4 workshops at top conferences on computer vision and robotics.
Y. Sandamirskaya is a Group Leader in the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Her group ``Neuromorphic Cognitive Robots'' develops neuro-dynamic architectures for embodied cognitive agents. In particular, she studies memory formation, motor control, and autonomous learning in spiking and continuous neural networks, realised in neuromorphic hardware interfaced to robotic sensors and motors. She has a degree in Physics from the Belorussian State University in Minsk, Belarus and Dr. rer. nat. from the Institute for Neural Computation in Bochum, Germany. She is the chair of EUCOG -- the European Society for Cognitive Systems and the coordinator of the NEUROTECH project that supports and develops the neuromorphic computing community in Europe.
Iñaki Rañó holds a MPhys and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (Spain). In 2005 he joined the Computer Science and Systems Engineering department of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where he developed several biologically inspired navigation strategies for mobile robots. During 2008 he was on sabbatical at the University of Essex (UK) working on the application of systems identification to the generation of bio-inspired controllers. In 2011 he joined the Institute for Neural Computation of the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (Germany). He was Lecturer on Cognitive Robotics in the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems of the Ulster University between 2013 and 2018. Nowadays, he is an Assistant Professor on Embodied Systems for Robotics and Learning at the University of Southern Denmark. He has published +60 peer-reviewed paper in areas spawning bio-inspired control, tactile sensing, and Reinforcement Learning.