Carmen Peláez Moreno
Professor Carmen Peláez Moreno
Carmen Peláez-Moreno earned her Eng. degree in Telecommunications from the Public Univ. of Navarre (1997) and her PhD from University Carlos III Madrid (2002). She was a visiting researcher in several research institutions: Univ. of Westminster, London, UK (pregraduate, 1996), Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (postdoctoral fellowship, 2003), International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, EEUU (postdoctoral fellowship, 2004 and 2006) and Univ. of Trento, Italy (postdoctoral, 2013), and University of Vienna (postdoctoral, 2021) including two maternity gaps in 2005 and 2007. She is currently, associate professor in the Signal Theory and Communications department of the Univ. Carlos III Madrid. In 2019, she earned the Full Professorship National Habilitation from ANECA. She is deputy director of the Gender Studies Institute of the UC3M and a member of IEEE, COIT/AEI, RTTH (Speech Technologies Thematic Network) and AMIT (Research and Technologist Women Association).
Her research interests include speech recognition, perception and cognition, audio processing, affective computing, multimedia processing, machine learning and data analysis, information theory and formal concept analysis, artificial and biological neural networks and connectomics, genders studies in technology, and education. She has coauthored more than 100 papers and participated in more than 40 competitive research projects and transfer contracts.
She has participated in several communication & out-reach activities, supervised more than 30 Final Year Projects (Master or Degree) and 5 PhD. She has served as proposal evaluation expert for the European Research Executive Agency, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) or the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and was a collaborator of the ICT panel of the Spanish Research Council (AEI, Agencia Estatal de Investigación) for evaluation of proposals from the National Research Programme.