He received a degree in Computer Engineering by the University of Balearic Islands in 1992 and a PhD in Computer Science in 2005 by the University of Balearic Islands. Currently, he is Full Professor at the University of the Balearic Islands. Along his professional trajectory, he has taught courses on Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Telecomunications Engineering fields (BsC and MsC levels), comprising topics such as computer organization, operating systems, embedded systems, control systems and perception systems/computer vision/pattern recognition/machine learning.

He is member of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He has led 11 competitive projects, including several local, Spanish (3) and European (4) projects on mobile robotics, image processing/analysis and pattern recognition/machine learning. He is author and co-author of more than 190 publications related with computer vision, mobile robotics and machine learning, including peer-reviewed conference communications and journal papers. His current research interests comprise machine learning/pattern recognition, computer vision, and mobile robotics. He regularly serves as reviewer and member of the scientific/organization committees for a number of Spanish and international conferences and journals in the same areas. He is as well member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) and also the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).