IA_Curriculum

Education

06/2011 - 12/2012	UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY (UPV) PhD. in Computer Science School of Computing. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence	San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
03/2011 - current	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Research Assistant School of Computing. Human Centered Computing Division	Clemson SC, USA
01/2009 - 06/2011	BURGOS UNIVERSITY Research Assistant (FPI) @ GICAP (Applied Computational Artificial Intelligence Group)	Burgos, Spain
09/2009 - 03/2011	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Research Associate Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering. Human Computer Interactions	Clemson SC, USA
01/2009 - 06/2011	BURGOS UNIVERSITY Ph. D in Communication and Media Research field: communication and Information technologies. Research Assistante (FPI) @ CAYPAT (Communication and Marketing Research Group)	Burgos, Spain
08/2007 - 01/2009	HOCHSCHULE OFFENBURG MS Communication and Media Cross-media communication, corporative image, graphic design, media production and multimedia applications.	Offenburg, Germany
09/2006 – 07/2007	HOCHSCHULE OFFENBURG Media and Information Science Exchange student with Erasmus Scholarship. Courses on Design, new media technologies, 3D Animation, and marketing.	Offenburg, Germany
10/2003 - 07/2006	UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS BA in Communication and Media: Communication and Media Management & Design.	Burgos, Spain
10/2001 - 09/2003	UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID BS Telecommunication Engineering Computer systems and networks, software design.	Valladolid, Spain
1999-2001	I.E.S. LOPEZ DE MENDOZA International Baccalaureate. Science & Technology.	Burgos, Spain
Professional Experience
01/2013 - current	BMW China NSC IT Project Manager, Connected Drive Asia Vehicle Telematics, Location Based Services, Teleservices, Car2Car communication, V2I, Connected vehicle applications, Vehicle Browswer Apps, Smartphone Apps & Innovations	Beijing, China
02/2012 - 12/2012	BMW Group IT Architect, IT Build, Customer To Business Project Management. IT Solutions, Systems Architecture, Speech Technologies, Authentication, Automotive HCI	Munich, Germany
03/2011 - 01/2012	Human Centered Computing Division - Clemson University Research Assistant Project Lead & Management. Automotive HCI, Voice Applications, Brain Computer Interfaces,	Clemson, SC, USA
09/2009 - 01/2012	BMW IT Research Center Research Associate IT Innovations: User Help, Mobile platforms and Human Factors	Greenville, SC, USA
05/2009 - 08/2009	Castillian Institute of Spanish Language IT Media Department Web master micastellano.com and mi castellano.tv Web content management and design for www.ilcyl.com.	Burgos, Spain
03/2008 - 12/2008	Group BMW Marketing and Services Owner’s Manual Department Internship: product management, multimedia software design and quality testing.	Munich, Germany
09/2007 – 02/2008	TIK Engineer Kommunikation Internship: 3D Graphics.	Stuttgart, Germany
02/2006 – 08/2006	Spanish Government. Media Department, Burgos Location Internship: DataBases, Technical Reports & Media Relationship	Burgos, Spain

Publications

Alvarez I., Gilbert, J.E., Lopez-de-Ipiña, K. (2012) The Voice User Help, a smart vehicle assistant for the elderly. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2012, San Sebastian, Spain

Alvarez I., Lopez-de-Ipiña, K., Daily, S.B., Gilbert, J.E., (2012) Emotional Adaptive Vehicle User Interfaces:moderating negative effects of failed technology interactions while driving, in Proceedings of 2nd Workshop of Automotive Natural Interfaces, together with 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces, AutoUI'12, Portsmouth, NH, October 17th-19th, p. 57-60

Ekandem J., Davis, T., Alvarez, I. , James, M. Gilbert, J.E. (2012) Evaluating the Ergonomics of BCI Devices for Research and Experimentation. In Ergonomics Journal, Taylor & Francis

Alvarez, I. , Alnizami, H., Dunbar, J., Johnson, A., Jackson, F., & Gilbert, J.E. (2011) Designing Driver-centric Natural Voice User Interfaces. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Salzburg, Austria, pp. 166-169.

Alvarez, I. , Amin, R., Bhavsar, P., Deng, J., Dey, K., He, Y., Jackson, C., Johnson, J., LiChen, C., Tupper, L., Woolbrigh, W., Xu L., Yang, Y., Brooks R., Chowdhury, M, Wang, K., Martin, J. and Taiber, J. (2011), Clemson's Intelligent Transportation Platform (IITP), Winner of USDOT Connected Vehicle Technology Challenge, in 18th World Congress in Intelligent Taransportation Systems, Orlando, CA, USA, October 16-20, 2011

Andujar, M., Ekandem, J.,Alvarez, I., James, M. and Gilbert, J.E., (2011), Are Educational Video Games All They're Cracked Up To Be?: A Physiological Approach For Measuring Engagement in Educational Video Games vs. Conventional Learning Techniques, inE-Learn 2011--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, October 18-21

Alvarez, I., Fischer, H.P., (2011), iHelp: The Ubiquitous Vehicle User Help, Workshop User Experience in Cars. In conjunction with 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, September 05-09

Darnell, S.S., Alvarez, I., Ekandem, J.I., Woodard, D.L. and Gilbert, J.E. (2011), MyDash: The Biometric Digital Dashboard, In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications (MIAA `11) organized at the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI `11), February 13, 2011, Palo Alto, CA, pp. 53-56.

Alvarez, I., Martin, A., Dunbar, J., Taiber, J., Wilson, D., and Gilbert, J (2010). Voice Interfaced Vehicle User Help. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (Automotive UI 2010) in-cooperation with ACM, 29th November 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, pp.42-49.

Alvarez Martinez, I., “Evolución Tecnológica de la Fotografía” (2009) Book Chapter in: Moreno Gallo, M.A., Miguel Sáez de Uzbarain, A., Un siglo de fotografía en Burgos. Paisaje y sociedad (1840-1940), Ed. Sol, 185 pp. Burgos.