Team members
Director
José M. Azorín
José M. Azorín is the Director of the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab and Full Professor of the Systems Engineering and Automation Department at Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Spain). He is also the director of the NSF IUCRC BRAIN UMH Site. He holds a M.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Alicante (1997, Spain) and a Ph.D. from Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Award for the Best Thesis of the Department) (2003, Spain). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Houston (USA) and at Imperial College London (United Kingdom). His current research interests are Brain-Machine Interfaces, Neuro-robotics and Rehabilitation Robotics. Over the last years, his research has been funded by prestigious grants from the European Union, other international government agencies, and Spain. He has been the PI of more than 20 research projects, and his research has resulted in more than 200 technical papers and 3 patents. Currently, he is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems Council and member of the Core Team of the IEEE Brain Initiative. Read more >
Faculty
Eduardo Iáñez
Eduardo Iáñez is a scientific researcher in the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Spain). He holds an M.Sc in Telecommunication Engineering from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Communication and Industrial Technologies by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche in 2012.
His current research interests are Human-Robot and Human-Computer Interfaces. He is focused on Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) (non-invasive brain interfaces) and Multimodal Human-Robot Interfaces (integrating brain, ocular and haptic information). Read more >
Mario Ortíz García
Mario Ortiz was born in Murcia (Spain), in 1978. He received a degree in Industrial Engineering in 2002, and Ph.D. in 2016 from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering and Energy Department and member of the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Spain).
His research activities include mathematical transforms applied to electrical signal processing, Neural Network Applications for signal classification and Brain-Machine Interfaces. Read more >
PhD Students
Vicente Quiles
Vicente Quiles has a degree in Industrial Technical Engineering specialized in Electronics (2017) by the Miguel Hernández University. He became in 2017 a Master in Artificial Intelligent from Polytechnic University of Madrid. He is currently working in the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche as a researcher, testing with patients at hospital. His main interests are related to applicate new IA techniques in order to decodificate brain signals.
Laura Ferrero
Laura Ferrero is currently doing a Ph.D. in Industrial and Telecommunication Tehcnology and working as a researcher in the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Spain). She obtained a degree in Biomedical Engineering (2017) from the Technical University of Valencia and she has a M.Sc. in Data Science (2019) by the Technical University of Madrid and Eindhoven University of Technology. Her present research is focused on the control of lower-limb exoeskeletonds by means of brain-machine interfaces.
Patricio Barria
Patricio Barría is the led researcher at Rehabilitation Center «Club de Leones, Cruz del Sur» from Chile. He has MSc in Neuro-Rehabilitation from Andrés Bello University in 2011. He is currently developing his PhD studies in the Industrial Technologies and Telecommunications Doctorate Program at the Miguel Hernández University.
Javier Vicente Juan
Javier V. Juan is currently doing a Ph. D. in Industrial and Telecommunication Technology, while working as a neurorehabilitation researcher in the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche, in Spain. He obtained a degree in Electronics and Automation Engineering from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Spain) in 2019, and he became Industrial Engineer when he obtained a M. Eng. in Industrial Engineering from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Spain) in 2021. His research is based on lower-limb trajectories decodification from EEG signals.
Researchers
Javier Belmar
Javier Belmar has a degree in Industrial Technical Engineering specialized in Mechanics (2019). He is currently working in the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche as a researcher. His main goal is to design and develop an entirely lowcost upper limb exoskeleton in order to control it with a BCI and help in the mobility recovery process of pacients
Luis De La Ossa
Luis de la Ossa has a degree in Industrial Technical Engineering specialized in Electronics (2020) by the Miguel Hernández University. He is currently doing a masters degree on robotics and automation from Alicante’s University, and working in the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche as a researcher. His current goal is to employ signal processing and classification methods to analyze EEG signals in order to detect the attentional state of patients, to improve the safety and efficiency of their recovery process.
Desirée Irene Gracia Laso
Desirée Gracia has a degree in Biomedical Engineering (2021) from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She is currently doing a master’s degree on Robotics from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, while working in the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche as a researcher. Her present research is focused on the analysis of EEG signals.»
Visiting Students
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Ana Luisa Sánchez Nava
Ana Luisa Sánchez Nava is a Mexican student from Universidad de Monterrey and she is studying a biomedical engineering degree. Currently she is doing her final degree project with the BMI Systems Lab, which is located in our university. Her project consists in the development of an algorithm in MATLAB so that the main phases of gait (support and swing) can be detected by the inferior joint angles during the continuous gait of healthy users using inertial measurement units (IMUs).
Arantza Sánchez
Arantza Sánchez is an exchange student from University of Monterrey, Mexico where she is studying a degree in Biomedical Engineering. Currently she is working in her final degree project, which consists in the detection of gait subphases from records with inertial measurement units, in the Brain Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche.
Tim de Boer
Tim de Boer has a degree in Human Movement Sciences (2020) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Currently, he is doing a Masters in Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. As part of his masters project, he is conducting research in the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche, in the field of upper-limb brain-machine interfaces using a low-cost EEG device.
Hayagreev Sivakumar
Hayagreev Sivakumar also known as Guru among his peers is a Master’s student in Computational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering currently an intern working on developing low cost BCI exoskeleton for lower limb movements. He has a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and a passion for Neurotechnology. His ultimate goal is to establish two way connection between the brain and a BCI.
Collaborators
Andrés Úbeda
Andrés Úbeda is assistant professor in the Department of Physics, System Engineering and Signal Theory of the University of Alicante, member of the research group HURO and regular collaborator with our lab’s team. He holds a M.Sc in Industrial Engineering from the UMH (2009) and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the UMH (2014).
His main research is focused on studying neuromuscular mechanisms of motor control and coordination by assessing descending motor pathways during movement execution. Other research topics are centered on the analysis of cortical information in the decoding of motor intentions and their use in motor neurorehabilitation procedures, human-machine interaction and assistive technologies in the field of neurorobotics, particularly focused on myoelectric and brain-controlled devices.
Irma Nayeli Angulo Sherman
Irma Nayeli Angulo Sherman is a full-time professor in the School of Health Sciences of the Universidad de Monterrey, in particular as part of the biomedical engineering program. She obtained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Physics from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV) at Monterrey’s unit (2017), as well as a Ph.D. in Industrial and Telecommunications Technologies from the UMH (2018). She is currently a candidate member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in Mexico.
Her current research is focused on biomedical signal processing, in particular EEG for brain-computer interface applications.
Students
- Sergio Bermúdez Díaz (Master Student 2023)
- José García Villalón (Master Student 2023)
- Miguel Ángel Gil Martínez (Undergraduate Student 2023)
Former Team Researchers
- Tatiana Candela Muries
- Pablo Vicente (Researcher 2020)
- Luis Mercado (PhD student – Visiting Researcher 2019)
- Jorge Gaxiola (PhD student – Visiting Researcher 2019)
- Marisol Rodríguez Ugarte (PhD student – Researcher 2015-2018)
- Nayeli Angulo (PhD Student – Visiting Researcher 2016-2017)
- Christoph Wilms (Undergraduate Student – Visiting Researcher 2016-2017)
- Andrés Úbeda (PhD Student – Researcher 2009-2017)
- Álvaro Costa (PhD Student – Researcher 2013-2016)
- Nadia Sciacca (PhD Student – Visiting Researcher 2016)
- Enrique Hortal (PhD Student – Researcher 2012-2016)
- Rocio Salazar (PhD Student – Visiting Researcher 2014-2015)
- Daniel Planelles (PhD Student – Researcher 2013-2014)
- José Luis Sirvent (Undergraduate and Master Student – Researcher 2012)
Former Team Visting Students
- Teresa Pascual (Master student UNIR 2022)
- Ana Luisa Sánchez Nava (Undergraduated student UDEM 2022)
- Arantza Sánchez Castillo (Undergraduated student UDEM 2022)
- Afra María Pertusa Llopis (Undergraduated student UA 2022)
- Anahis Casanova Hernández (Undergraduate Student UDEM 2020)
- Ángel Cadena (Undergraduate Student UDEM 2019)
Former Team Students
- Sergio Bermúdez Díaz (Undergraduate Student 2023)
- Alejandro Moreno Calderon (Undergraduate Student 2022)
- Desiree Irene Gracia Laso (Master Student 2022)
- Javier Belmar (Master Student 2022)
- Maria Del Carmen Azorin Miralles (Undergraduate Student 2022)
- Javier Juan Poveda (Master Student 2021)
- Óscar Fernández (Master Student 2021)
- Rubén Agulló (Undergraduate Student 2021)
- Álvaro Martínez Ballester (Undergraduate Student 2020)
- Carlos Carrazoni Pérez (Master Student 2020)
- Joaquín Sánchez Martí (Undergraduate Student 2020)
- Luis de la Ossa (Undergraduate Student 2020)
- Pablo Vicente Vidal (Undergraduate Student 2020)
- Ramón Fontelles Congost (Undergraduate Student 2020)
- Paula Soriano Segura (Master Student) 2020
- Adrián Juárez Serrrano (Undergraduate Student 2020)
- Josue Narejos Baeza (Undergraduate Student 2020)
- María Elvira Giner (Undergraduate Student 2019)
- Pilar Pardo Milla (Undergraduate Student 2019)
- Carlos Carrazoni Pérez (Undergraduate Student 2019)
- Lucía Almagro Bleda (Undergraduate Student 2019)
- Javier Juan Poveda (Undergraduate Student 2019)
- Javier Belmar (Undergraduate Student 2019)
- Adrían Peña Pablos (Undergraduate Student 2019)
- Javier Cabezas Rodríguez (Undergraduate Student 2019)
- Óscar Fernández Ballesteros (Undergraduate Student 2018)
- Alejandro Gonzalez Delgado (Undergraduate Student 2018)
- Silvia Moreno (Master Student 2017)
- Raúl Chapero Blasco (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- Alejandro Orgiler Castelló (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- David Macía Sempere (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- Rubén Marco Navarro (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- Martín Rico Martínez (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- David Navarro Navarro (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- Vicente Quiles Zamora (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- Francisco Illán Martínez (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- Vyacheslav Kostenko (Undergraduate Student 2017)
- Jorge Pérez Torregrosa (Undergraduate Student 2016)
- Jorge Aracil Gómez (Undergraduate Student 2016)
- Cecilio Delgado (Undergraduate Student 2016)
- Jonatan Lloret (Undergraduate Student 2015)
- Pedro Cortés Reyes (Undergraduate Student 2015)
- Andrés Belda Marín (Undergraduate Student 2015)
- Enrique Ortiz (Undergraduate Student 2015)
- Belén López (Undergraduate Student 2015)
- Alberto León García (Undergraduate Student 2015)
- Antonio Sánchez (PhD Student 2014)
- Inma Ríos López (Master Student 2014)
- Juan José Rodriguez Gil (Master Student 2014)
- Joaquín Alcázar Ballesta (Undergraduate Student 2014)
- Joaquín López Córdoba (Undergraduate Student 2014)
- Juan Francisco Abril (Undergraduate Student 2014)
- Javier Alarcón (Undergraduate Student 2014)
- Daniel Jimenez (Undergraduate Student 2013)
- Álvaro Costa García (Undergraduate Student 2013)
- Fernando Florez (Master Student 2011)
- Fernando Sobrino-Manzanares Más (Undergraduate Student 2010)