Team
Faculty
Juan Carlos Guerri
Full Professor · Head of the group
Universitat Politècnica de València
Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada was born in Valencia, Spain in 1969. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Communications Engineering at UPV, where he teaches at the ETSI Telecomunicación. He leads the Multimedia Communications research group (COMM) of the iTEAM (Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications). His research spans multimedia communications, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, wireless and ad hoc networks, and the application of multimedia technologies to industry, medicine, education and communications.
Pau Arce
Associate Professor
Universitat Politècnica de València
Pau Arce Vila received his Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2005, his M.S. in Communication Technologies, Systems and Networks in 2008, and his PhD in Telecommunications in 2014, all from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is a Profesor Permanente Laboral in the Communications Department at UPV and a researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) since 2005. His research interests include multimedia QoS, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, routing in wireless ad hoc networks, and performance evaluation of multimedia systems.
Román Belda
Assistant Professor
Universitat Politècnica de València
Román Belda received his degree in Computer Science in 2004 and an M.S. in Telematics in 2013 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from UPV in 2021. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València and a member of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM). His research interests include adaptive video streaming (MPEG-DASH), low-latency and peer-assisted video delivery, Quality of Experience (QoE), mobile applications and multimedia transmission protocols.
Tito R. Vargas
Assistant Professor
Universitat Politècnica de València
Tito Raúl Vargas Hernández graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Santo Tomás (USTA), Bucaramanga, Colombia, in 2003. He received the M.Sc. in Telematics Engineering in 2007 and the PhD in Telecommunications in 2023 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). He worked with the COMM group at iTEAM from 2005 to 2010 and has been a lecturer and researcher at USTA since 2010. In 2022 he joined iTEAM as a research engineer and later worked there as a postdoctoral researcher. He is now an Assistant Professor (Profesor Ayudante Doctor) in the Department of Communications (DCOM) at UPV and a member of iTEAM. His research covers multimedia distribution over IP/optical networks, energy-efficient Ethernet, QoS in high-speed networks and the Internet of Things.
Researchers
Ismael de Fez
Associate Researcher · Master's Director at VIU
Valencian International University (VIU)
Ismael de Fez was born in Valencia, Spain in 1983. He received his Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2007 and his M.S. in Telematics in 2010 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), where his M.Sc. thesis was awarded by the Telefónica chair of UPV. He obtained his PhD in Telecommunications from UPV in 2014 and an MBA from UPV in 2017. He worked as an R&D Engineer at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM, UPV) from 2008 to 2021. Since 2021 he has been Director of the Master's in Development of Web Applications and Services at the Valencian International University (VIU). His research interests include multimedia transmission, DASH adaptive streaming, QoE modelling, AL-FEC coding for unidirectional wireless environments, and file encoding.
Carlos Alventosa
Researcher
iTEAM · Universitat Politècnica de València
Carlos Alventosa Corts received the B.Sc. in Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering (2024) and the M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering (2026) from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Carlos joined the Multimedia Communications Group (COMM) at iTEAM with a curricular internship in 2024 and then held a Spanish Ministry of Education research collaboration grant in the group (2024–2025) on the application of artificial intelligence to video systems for multimedia content processing. Current research focuses on Quality of Experience and low-latency video streaming with MPEG-DASH and Media over QUIC (MoQ).
Alumni
Paola Guzmán
Former Senior Researcher (2011–2022)
Paola Guzmán Castillo received her Electronic Engineering degree and M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia, in 2001 and 2005, the Master in Technologies, Systems and Communication Networks in 2014 and the PhD in Telecommunications in 2022 from the Universitat Politècnica de València. Since 2011 she worked as a senior researcher in the COMM group. Her research focuses on QoS and QoE for 3D video streaming and adaptive transport of 3D video over IP networks.
Víctor Fernández
Researcher
Víctor Fernández worked in COMM on smart-city interoperability, including traffic forecasting and power supply management for electric vehicles.
M. Ángeles Rodríguez
Researcher
M. Ángeles Rodríguez received the Computer Science degree from the Universitat Jaume I and UPV. She worked in COMM on Big Data, Open Data, machine learning, IoT and FIWARE.
Natalia Blasco
Researcher (2016–2018)
Natalia Blasco obtained a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from UPV in 2016 and worked as a researcher in the COMM group until 2018, on video coding and multimedia QoS.
Santiago González
PhD 2017
Santiago González Martínez received the Electronic Engineering degree from the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador) in 2006, an M.S. in Advanced Computer Technologies from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in 2009 and the M.S. in Telematics from UPV in 2013. He joined COMM in 2013 and obtained his PhD in Telecommunications from UPV in 2017, working on energy efficiency and QoS in wireless ad hoc networks.
Wilder Castellanos
PhD 2015
Wilder Castellanos received his Electronic Engineering degree from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia) in 2002 and the M.Sc. in Telematics Engineering from UPV in 2009. He obtained his PhD in Telecommunications from UPV in 2015 with a thesis on QoS routing and mechanisms for improving video streaming over mobile ad hoc networks.
Francisco Fraile
PhD 2013
Francisco Fraile obtained a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from UPV, an M.S. in Microwave Engineering from the University of Gävle (2004), an M.S. in Telematics from UPV (2009) and his PhD in Telecommunications (2013). From 2004 to 2010 he worked for the Swedish company Interactive TV Arena, and in 2006 he joined COMM. His work focused on DVB and IP networks for the delivery of television content.