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Hire Dr. Gonzalo A. G.

Spain

Expert in Data and Signal Processing | PhD. in Biomedical Engineering from Osaka University. M.Sc. in Computer Science.

Profile Summary

B.Sc. (1996) and M.Sc. (1998) degrees in Computer Sciences, and M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering (2014) from the University of Granada (Granada, Spain). Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan, 2005), supported by a grant from the Ministry of Education of Japan. Afterwards, I was hosted by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy), for working on a project I proposed to the European Commission and got funded through a Marie Curie EIF postdoctoral fellowship. From 2008 to 2012, I have worked in the Biorobotics Department of Tecnalia Technological Centre (San Sebastián and Bilbao, Spain) as a Senior Researcher. From 2013 I have been working as a freelance researcher. My primary research lines include acquisition and processing of surface-electromyogram (EMG) signal as a monitoring tool, for the diagnosis of neuromotor diseases, and for prostheses control. I have produced 4 patents, more than 10 scientific papers (including full papers and conference papers) and 4 book chapters. I am highly experienced in designing and managing projects as well as identifying and obtaining research funding (public and private) for their execution.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Signal Processing
• ★ Data Analysis
• ★ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Biomedical Engineering
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Computational Mathematics

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting

Research Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization

Work Experience

Senior Researcher

4i Intelligent Insights

January 2022 - Present

Scientific responsible of the Department of Research at Fundacion Ayesa

Ayesa, Spain

April 2021 - October 2021

Senior Researcher. Scientific responsible of the Department of Research

Fundación Ayesa

April 2021 - October 2021

Senior Researcher

Sherpa.ai

June 2018 - September 2020

Senior Researcher

Freelance Researcher

March 2013 - June 2018

Senior Researcher ad Project Manager

Tecnalia Corporación Tecnológica

January 2008 - December 2012

Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellow

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

April 2006 - April 2008

Research Assistant

Osaka University

April 2001 - April 2005

Doctoral Scholar, granted by Monbusho (Ministry of Education of Japan)

Osaka University

October 2000 - April 2005

Junior Assistant Professor

Universidad de Granada

January 1999 - April 1999

Education

Master in Data Engineering and Science (Computer Science)

UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

October 2020 - September 2023

Bachelor Degree in Psychology (Faculty of Psychology)

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

2014 - 2017

Master Degree in Electronic Engineering

Universidad de Granada

2009 - 2014

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Osaka University

2001 - 2005

Master Degree in Computer Science

Universidad de Granada

1996 - 1998

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

Universidad de Granada

1992 - 1996

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Gonzalo A. García, Guillermo Pérez, Rohan K. Laycock-Narayan, Leigh Levinson, J. Gabriel Amores, Gloria Alvarez-Benito, Manuel Castro-Malet, Mario Castaño-Ocaña, Marta J. López-González de Quevedo, Ricardo Durán-Viñuelas, et al. (2024). Preliminary study on the feasibility of approximating children's engagement level from their emotions estimation by a picture-based, three-model AI in a family-robot cohabitation scenario . Advanced Robotics.

Guillermo Pérez García, Gonzalo A. García, Manuel Castro, Mario Castaño, Marta J. López-González de Quevedo, Ricardo Durán, Luis Pérez, J. Gabriel Amores, Gloria Álvarez, Leigh Michelle Levinson, et al. (2024). A multi-site language study on child-robot dialogues . Advanced Robotics.

Theis, Fabian J and Garc{\'\i}a, Gonzalo A(2006). On the use of sparse signal decomposition in the analysis of multi-channel surface electromyograms . Signal Processing. 86. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 603--623. Elsevier

Garcia, Gonzalo A and Okuno, Ryuhei and Azakawa, K(2005). A decomposition algorithm for surface electrode-array electromyogram . IEEE engineering in medicine and biology magazine. 24. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 63--72. IEEE

García GA, Okuno R, Akazawa K, IEEE engineering in medicine and biology magazine : the quarterly magazine of the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, 2005, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 63-72, 2005 .

Wu Y, Tao N, Tang L, Ma X, Garcia GA, Mitsui M, Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, 2004, vol. 7, pp. 5192-5195, 2004 .

CONFERENCE PAPER

Living with Haru4Kids: Study on children’s activity and engagement in a family-robot cohabitation scenario @inproceedings{Garc_a_2023, title={Living with Haru4Kids: Study on children’s activity and engagement in a family-robot cohabitation scenario}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309509}, DOI={10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309509}, booktitle={2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)}, publisher={IEEE}, author={García, Gonzalo A. and Pérez, Guillermo and Levinson, Leigh and Amores, J. Gabriel and Alvarez-Benito, Gloria and Castro-Malet, Manuel and Castaño-Ocaña, Mario and Quevedo, Marta J. López-González de and Durán-Viñuelas, Ricardo and Gomez, Randy and Šabanović, Selma}, year={2023}, month=aug } . 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Child-Robot Conversation in the Wild Wild Home: A Language Processing User Study @inproceedings{P_rez_2023, title={Child-Robot Conversation in the Wild Wild Home: A Language Processing User Study}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309630}, DOI={10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309630}, booktitle={2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)}, publisher={IEEE}, author={Pérez, Guillermo and García, Gonzalo A. and Castro, Manuel and Castaño, Mario and De Quevedo, Marta J. Lopez-González and Durán, Ricardo and Amores, J. Gabriel and Álvarez, Gloria and Levinson, Leigh and Šabanović, Selma and Gomez, Randy}, year={2023}, month=aug } . 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Miljkovic, Nadica and Zabaleta, Haritz and Rodriguez-de-Pablo, Cristina and Keller, Thierry and Garcia, Gonzalo A(2013). EMG Topography of Low Back Muscles as a Tool for Posture Evaluation and for the Assessment of Lumbalgia Treatments Progress . Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 495--499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

Zabaleta, Haritz and Rodriguez-de-Pablo, Cristina and Miljkovic, Nadica and Keller, Thierry and Garcia, Gonzalo A(2012). sEMG-based detection of poor posture: a feasibility study . International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1210--1213.

Miljkovi{\'c}, Nadica and Bijeli{\'c}, Goran and Garcia, Gonzalo A and Popovi{\'c}, Mirjana B(2011). Independent Component Analysis of EMG for posture detection: sensitivity to variation of posture properties. Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 47--50.

Garcia, Gonzalo A and Keller, Thierry(2008). Advanced signal processing techniques applied to cross-talk reduction in forearm S-EMG . MyoElectric Controls/Powered Prosthetics (MEC) Conference.

Garcia, Gonzalo A and Zaccone, Franco and Ruff, Roman and Micera, Silvestro and Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter and Dario, Paolo(2007). Characterization of a new type of dry electrodes for long-term recordings of surface-electromyogram . IEEE 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 849--853.

Wu, Yunfeng and Tao, Ningning and Tang, Luxian and Ma, Xu and Garcia, Gonzalo A and Mitsui, Mie(2004). Maxi program at IEEE EMBS student club of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications . 26th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEMBS). 2. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 5192--5195.

Garc{\'\i}a, Gonzalo A and Nishitani, Ryouichi and Okuno, Ryuhei and Akazawa, Kenzo(2003). Independent component analysis as preprocessing tool for decomposition of surface electrode-array electromyogram . 4th International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2003). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 191--196.

Okuno, Ryuhei and Nishitani, Ryoichi and Garcia, Gonzalo A and Akazawa, Kenzo(2003). Interactive decomposition of MU with multi-channel template-matching of surface EMG . IEEE EMBS Asian-Pacific Conference on Biomedical Engineering. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 226--227.

Garcia, Gonzalo A and Okuno, Ryuhei and Akazawa, Kenzo(2003). Surface electrode-array electromyogram decomposition . First International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 388--391.

Garcia, Gonzalo A and Akazawa, Kenzo and Okuno, Ryuhei(2003). Decomposition of surface electrode-array electromyogram of biceps brachii muscle in voluntary isometric contraction . 25th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 3. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2483--2486.

BOOK CHAPTER

Gonzalo A. Garcia, Leigh Levinson, Guillermo Perez, Gloria Alvarez-Benito, J. Gabriel Amores, Mario Castaño-Ocaña, Manuel Castro-Malet, Randy Gomez, Selma Šabanović (2022). Living with Haru4Kids: Child and Parent Perceptions of a Co-Habitation Robot for Children .

Garc{\'\i}a, Gonzalo A and Okuno, Ryuhei and Akazawa, Kenzo(2013). Simulator of a myoelectrically controlled prosthetic hand with graphical display of upper limb and hand posture . Electrodiagnosis in New Frontiers of Clinical Research. InTech

Gavilanes-Miranda, Bego{\~n}a and De Gandarias, Juan J Goiriena and Garcia, Gonzalo A(2012). Comparison by EMG of running barefoot and running shod . Computational Intelligence in Electromyography Analysis-A Perspective on Current Applications and Future Challenges. InTech

Gavilanes-Miranda, Bego{\~n}a and De Gandarias, Juan J Goiriena and Garcia, Gonzalo A(2011). Walking and jogging: quantification of muscle activity of the lower extremities . Advances in Applied Electromyography. InTech

Garc{\'\i}a, Gonzalo A and Okuno, Ryuhei and Akazawa, Kenzo(2006). Independent Component Analysis of Surface EMG for Detection of Single Motoneurons Firing in Voluntary Isometric Contraction . Handbook of Neural Engineering. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 519--533. John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.

Garc{\'\i}a, Gonzalo and Maekawa, Kazuya and Akazawa, Kenzo(2004). Decomposition of synthetic multi-channel surface-electromyogram using independent component analysis . Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 985--992. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg

OTHER

Gonzalo A. Garcia, David Valencia-Blanco, Thierry Keller (2012). System for the Prevention and Treatment of Low Back Pain Based on Postural Re-Education . Zenodo.

Gonzalo A. Garcia, Sandra Rainieri (2012). System to Detect the Level of Stress/Discomfort of Aquatic Animals . Zenodo.

PATENT

Garcia, Gonzalo A and Rainieri, Sandra(2012). System to detect the level of stress/discomfort of aquatic animals . European Patent. Google Patents