I received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Sevilla, Spain, in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Málaga in 1995. I am a full professor in the Department of Computer Architecture at the University of Málaga, and currently I am the Head of this Department.

My research is focused on two main topics: high-performance computing and computer vision. Regarding the first field, I have been working with accelerators in the last few years, mainly discrete GPUs, proposing new application scheduling techniques to increase the execution performance of a batch of applications. In the Computer Vision field, I have been developing models for people identification using specific biometrics such as gait and object detection. Also, I have been working on optimizing deep learning models to be deployed in embedded heterogeneous architectures for inference to reduce complexity, latency, and power consumption. Because of my research activity, I have published more than 120 papers (over 45 in JRC Journals) and per-reviewed International Conferences and established links with other international groups such as the Robotics Institute at the University of Carnegie-Mellon, Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and THOTH group at INRIA in Grenoble.

My research has been uninterruptedly founded by national research projects within the group Parallel algorithms and architectures (registered as TIC-113 in the official catalog of research groups of Andalusia, Spain). I have also led five regional projects and participated in several EuroHPC Benchmark Access Calls, where I received nine positive evaluations of different projects, being awarded with computing time in the most potent European supercomputers such as Leonardo, Vega, LUMI-G, and Meluxina. I belong to the UMA Institute of Mechatronics Engineering and Cyberphysics Systems. Finally, I have evaluated 28 projects for the ANEP Spanish agency.

I have also been involved in technology transference activities. Thus, I was founding partner of the company Tedial (Tecnologias Digitales Audiovisual) in 2000, where I performed advising tasks in developing video processing tools until 2012. We started the company with four workers and when I left, the company (still active) had more than 30. I have also participated in other technology transfer activities with companies such as Tedial, AERTEC, AirBus, Torresol, and SeaBery.