Francesc Alías Pujol

Full Professor of Speech and Acoustic Signal Processing, Department of Engineering

Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Information Technologies and their application to Management, Architecture and Geophysics, La Salle and the Ebro Observatory

La Salle Campus Barcelona – Universitat Ramon Llull

Academic background

• PhD in Electronic Engineering, La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain), 2006
• University Expert in Digital Transformation, La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain), 2023
• MBA, La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain), 2013
• Degree in Electronic Engineering (Image and Sound specialization), La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain), 1999
• Technical Engineering in Telecommunications (Image and Sound specialization), La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain), 1997

Teaching Activity

Full-time professor at La Salle Campus Barcelona – Universitat Ramon Llull, teaching since 2004 in the fields of mathematics and audio and speech processing.

Research and Tech transfer activity

Researcher in the Speech Processing line of the Human–Environment Research Group. His research interests focus on signal processing, particularly speech and acoustic signal processing, with the aim of enabling natural interaction between humans, machines and their environment.

He served as Director of the Human–Computer Interaction Area (2011–2014) and Coordinator of the Research Group on Media Technologies (2014–2021). He has participated in more than 55 national and European R&D&I projects, acting as principal investigator in 20 of them. He is the author of over 170 scientific publications.

Additional Information

• Director of Teaching and Research Staff Policies (2019 – Present)
• Head of the Department of Engineering (2014–2021)
• Predoctoral Fellow of the Department of Universities, Research and Information Society (DURSI) of the Government of Catalonia (2000–2003)
• Personal website: http://users.salleurl.edu/~francesc.alias