Juan J. Pantrigo was born in Cáceres (Spain) in 1975. He received his M.S. Degree in Physics from the Universidad de Extremadura - UEx (Spain) in 1998 and his Ph.D. Degree from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - URJC in 2005. He was previously working in the Biomechanics and Ergonomics Laboratory in the Universidad de Extremadura - UEx and in the Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre - CCMI in Cáceres.

Nowadays, He is associate professor at the URJC (Spain) where he is a member of the GAVAB and CAPO research groups in the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación - DCC (Department of Computer Science). His main research interests focus on the interface among Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Operations Research. Specifically, he is mainly interested in the following research lines:

Computer vision: Mutiple objects tracking for surveillance applications, 2D/3D articulated motion tracking, vision-based human action recognition, computer vision in transportation systes, abandoned objects detection

Combinatorial optimization: exact and heuristic methods for combinatorial optimization, Hybrid methods for dynamic optimization

High performance computing: image and video processing using GPUs

knowledge modelling: Knowledge-based systems