García-Zapirain, Begoña

I graduated in Communications Engineering, specializing in Telematics at the Basque Country University, Bilbao (Spain) in 1994. In 2004, I defended my doctoral thesis in the pathological speech digital processing field. After 3 years of working for ZIV Company, in 1997, I joined the University of Deusto faculty and I am now Full Professor in signal processing theory and electronics. I have been the head of the Telecommunication Department for 6 years starting in 2002. In 2001 I created the eVIDA research group (evida.deusto.es) at the University of Deusto, playing the role of lead researcher (PI). I have participated in more than 200 research projects on international, national and regional levels, published more than 200 papers in international scientific journals, presented more than 160 papers in international and national scientific conferences and supervised 20 doctoral thesis. I received 5 research awards at national level.