Elisa Sayrol

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Elisa Sayrol Clols received her doctorate in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), where she received the special prize 1994-1995. She carried out predoctoral stays at Northeastern University and the University of Southern California between 1990 and 1993. She has been Deputy Director and Director of the Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering, as well as Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations at UPC. She is currently a Full Professor at the UPC and a member of the Image and Video Processing Research Group, associated with the IDEAI-UPC Research Center. She has been a representative of the UPC in the EIT Urban Mobility, period in which she has also coordinated the Master in Urban Mobility of the UPC. She is part of the CARNET Academic Committee, a knowledge hub founded by the UPC together with SEAT and VW Research. Her research focuses on the study of machine learning and deep learning techniques with computer vision, especially in urban mobility and medical imaging applications. In this regard, at the initiative of the Center for Development Cooperation, she agreed to work with biomedical images of malaria, leishmaniasis and tuberculosis, directing the development of tools for the identification of parasites.