Sergio EscaleraSergio Escalera (www.sergioescalera.com) obtained a P.h.D. degree on multiclass visual categorization systems at Computer Vision Center, UAB. He obtained the 2008 best Thesis award on Computer Science at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. He is ICREAAcademia. He leads the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Group at UB, CVC, and the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics. He is Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Universitat de Barcelona. He is an adjunct professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Aalborg University, and Dalhousie University. He has been visiting professor at TU Delft and Aalborg Universities. He is also a member of the Computer Vision Center at UAB. He is series editor of The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning. He is a member and fellow of the European Laboratory of Intelligent Systems ELLIS. He is vice-president of ChaLearn Challenges in Machine Learning, leading ChaLearn Looking at People events. He is a co-creator of Codalab open source platform for challenges organization. He is Chair of IAPR TC-12: Multimedia and visual information systems. His research interests include: statistical pattern recognition, affective computing, and human pose recovery and behavior understanding, including multi-modal data analysis, with special interest in characterizing people: personality and psychological profile computing. Read More Read Less