Bio

Miguel Ferrer Contreras graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in the year 2000 at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. He was collaborating with the Audio and Communications Signal Processing Group (GTAC) since a year before, performing a six months research stay in the Instituto de Investigación Aplicada al Automóvil, Tarragona, Spain (Automobile Applied Research Institute). Subsequently, he was awarded several grants offered both by the Communications Department of the UPV and by the Research, Development and Innovation Vice-Chancellery of the same university, enabling him to start his Doctorate studies and to collaborate in different research projects within the GTAC. During this period he has authored or co-authored over twenty papers related with signal processing in renowned journals and conferences. Since 2005 he works as an assistant lecturer in the Communications Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). His research activity is focused on the study of adaptive algorithms and its application to audio digital processing and noise active control, a subject about which he is developing his doctoral thesis.