PERSONAL DATA Name: Ignacio Álvarez Martínez

Address: 404 NW Lost Springs Terrace #302, Portland, OR 97229, USA

Telephone: +1-971-223-9766

E-mail: Personal: ignacioalvmar@gmail.com Work: ignacio.j.alvarez@intel.com

Professional profiles: http://de.linkedin.com/pub/ignacio-alvarez/20/b13/278

Intro Statement

I am a research scientist working in intelligent transportation solutions as part of the Internet of Things. I apply my extensive experience in the Automotive Industry into innovative future oriented solutions. I strive to achieve the perfect balance towards information access and driver safety. As a key motivator, I praise user experience in the design and development of new technology solutions and constantly scout technology trends for innovative mobility services. I strive to achieve the perfect balance towards information access and driver safety for in-vehicle systems. I base work ethics in the believe that competitive advantage in business lays in a deep understanding of customer needs and the ability to provide the most meaningful solution

to those needs.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Working Experience

09/2014 - Present

Hillsboro, OR

Intel Corporation Research ScientistIntel Labs, Systems Software Research, Systems Prototyping Lab:Lead transportation research, contextual research, Cloud Computing & Big Data solutions

11/2013 - 09/2014

Beijing, China

BMW Group Senior Manager, IT ProjectsDepartment head for IT Projects: ConnectedDrive APAC, Customer Relationship Management, IT Infrastructure, IT Innovations

01/2013 - 11/2013

Beijing, China

BMW Group Manager Connected Drive, Asia Pacific Region Project management, IT Infrastructure operations, design and rollout. Vehicle telematics, off-board communications and mobility services through built-in and plug-in solutions.IT Innovations for telematics in Asia.

02/2012 - 12/2012

Munich, Germany

BMW Group IT Architect: Platforms Customer and Vehicle off-board ITIT Project management. Product Owner for in-vehicle speech technologies. Global customer data management, biometric customer authentication, user experience & system design.

03/2011 - 06/2014

Clemson, SC, USA

Clemson University - Human Centered Computing Division (HCCLab) Research Assistant: HCI, human factors, user experience, voice technologies, system design, usability and evaluation.

09/2009 - 01/2012

Greenville, SC, USA

BMW IT Research Center (ITRC) Research Associate: IT Innovations. IT Solutions conception and development. Mobility Services, Human-Computer Interactions, Interface Design.

08/2009 - 02/2012

Burgos, Spain

Burgos University FPI Researcher @ GICAP Research for Artificial Computation on Media and Information Technology.

05/2009 - 08/2009

Burgos, Spain

Castillian Institute of Spanish Language IT Media Department Web master micastellano.com and mi castellano.tv Web content management and design for www.ilcyl.com.

03/2008 - 12/2008

Munich, Germany

Group BMW Marketing and Services Owner’s Manual Department Internship: product management, multimedia software design and quality testing.

09/2007 – 02/2008

Stuttgart, Germany

TIK Engineering Kommunikation Internship: 3D Graphics, event organization.

EDUCATION

02/2006 – 08/2006

Burgos, Spain

Spanish Government Press and Media Department Internship: Media management & press relations

07/2005 – 08/2005

Logroño, Spain

CANAL 4 RIOJA TV Trainee on Media Affairs.

06/2011 - 12/2012

San Sebastian, País Vasco, Spain

UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY (UPV-EHU)PhD. in Computer Science School of ComputingComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence

03/2011 - 12/2012

Clemson,SC, USA

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Visiting Scholar & Research AssociateHuman-Centered Computing, School of Computing.

09/2009 - 02/2011

Clemson,SC, USA

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Visiting Scholar & Research AssociateHuman-Computer Interactions Computer & Electrical Engineering.

01/2009 - 06/2011

Burgos, Spain

BURGOS UNIVERSITY Ph. D in Communication & Media Sciences Research field: Information technologies & Communication

08/2007 - 01/2009

Offenburg, Germany

HOCHSCHULE OFFENBURG “Master Medien und Kommunikation” MS Communication and Media Cross-media communication, corporative image, graphic design, media production and multimedia applications.

09/2006 – 07/2007

Offenburg, Germany

HOCHSCHULE OFFENBURG “Medien und Informationswesen” BA Media and Information Science Erasmus Scholarship for foreign studies. Courses on Design, new media technologies, 3D Animation, and marketing.

09/2003 - 07/2006

Burgos, Spain

UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS BA in Communication and Media: Communication and Media Management & Design.

09/2001- 07/2003

Valladolid, Spain

UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID BS Telecommunication Engineering Computer systems and networks, software engineering.

09/1999 - 07/2001

Burgos, Spain

I.E.S. LOPEZ DE MENDOZA International Baccalaureate Science & Technology

Publications

Journal / Book 2015 Alvarez,I., Alnizami, H., Dunbar, J., Jackson, F., Gilbert, J.E., Help on the road: Effects

of vehicle manual consultation in driving performance across modalities, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 73, January 2015, Pages 19-29, ISSN 1071-5819

2014 Riener, A., Jeon,M., Alvarez, I., Zambonelli, F. Special Issue on “The Social Car: Socially-inspired Mechanisms for Future Mobility Services”, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 14, October 2014, Pages 66-70, ISSN 1574-1192

2014 Alnizami, H., Alvarez, I., Gilbert, J.E. (2014) Socializing under the influence of distracted driving: A study of the effects of in-vehicle and outside-of-the-vehicle communication while driving. In Special Issue The Social Car, Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier.

2014 Alvarez, I., Lopez-de-Ipiña, M.K., Gilbert, J.E., Daily, S., (2014) The Voice User Help, an smart vehicle assistant based on natural language understanding and emotional adaptive interfaces. In Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier

2014 Alvarez, I., Alnizami H., Dunbar, J., Jackson, F., Gilbert, JE. (2014) Help on the Road: Effects of Manual Consultation in Driving Performance Across Modalities. In International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Elsevier

2013 Oct.

Darnell, S., Mack, N., Jackson, F., Alnizami, H., James, M., Ekandem, J., Alvarez, I. , Andujar, M., Moon, D., Gilbert, J., (2013) Human-Computer Interfaces for Speech Applications. In A. Tucker (Ed.) Computer Science Handbook (3rd ed.).

2013Sep.

Ekandem J., Davis, T., Alvarez, I. , James, M. Gilbert, J.E. (2013) Response to Letter by Padulo and Ardigò. In Ergonomics Journal, Taylor & Francis

2012Jan.

Ekandem J., Davis, T., Alvarez, I. , James, M. Gilbert, J.E. (2012) Evaluating the Ergonomics of BCI Devices for Research and Experimentation. In Ergonomics Journal, Taylor & Francis

2009Jul.

Alvarez Martinez, I., “Evolución Tecnológica de la Fotografía” (2009) Book Chapter in: Moreno Gallo, M.A., Miguel Sáez de Uzbarain, A., Un siglo de fotografía en Burgos. Paisaje y sociedad (1840-1940), Ed. Sol, 185 pp. Burgos.

Conferences 2014 Seattle, WA,

USARiener, A., Jeon,M., Alvarez, I., Zambonelli, F., Workshop: "Social, Natural, and Peripheral Interaction: Together and Separate", DOI:10.1145/2667239.2667282 Conference: 6th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '14), September 17-19, Seattle, WA, USA

2013 Dec.

Beijing, China

Alvarez, I. (2013) Guest Speaker in Panel Big Data for Automotive, T-Systems Executive Event, Beijing, China, December 12th.

2013 Nov.

Beijing, China

Alvarez, I. (2013) Guest Speaker in Real Time Traffic Information in China Forum (RTIC), presentation BMW ConnectedDrive, the Future of Telematics in Electrical Vehicles, Beijing, China, November 7th.

2013Oct.

Chengdu, China

Alvarez, I. (2013) Guest Speaker in China Unicom Telematics Excellence Conference in China, presentation "Case Study, BMW ConnectedDrive in China", Chendu, Sichuan Province, China, October 17-19

2013Sep.

Eindhoven, NL

Pfleging, B., Alvarez, I., Healey J., Broy, N., (2013) 3rd Workshop on Automotive Natural User Interfaces together with 5th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces, AutoUI'13, Eindhoven, September 17th-19th, p. 57-60

2013Sep.

Eindhoven, NL

Riener, A., Jeon, M., Alvarez, I. (2013) 2nd Workshop on Socially-inspired Mechanisms for Future Mobility Services together with 5th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces, AutoUI'13, Eindhoven, September 17th-19th, p. 75-77

2012Nov.

San Sebastian, Spain

Alvarez I., Gilbert, J.E., Lopez-de-Ipiña, K. (2012) The Voice User Help, a smart vehicle assistant for the elderly. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2012, San Sebastian, Spain

2012Oct.

Detroit, MI, USA

Alvarez, I., Nolan, A., Gilbert, J.E. (2012) Invited Speaker on CVTA/SAE In-vehicle Voice Technology Workshop, presentation on State of the Art and Future of In-vehicle Voice Technologies, white paper, Detroit, October 15th.

2012Oct.

Portsmouth, NH, USA

Alvarez I., Lopez-de-Ipiña, K., Daily, S.B., Gilbert, J.E., (2012) Emotional Adaptive Vehicle User Interfaces: moderating negative effects of failed technology interactions while driving, in Proceedings of 2nd Workshop of Automotive Natural Interfaces, together with 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces, AutoUI'12, Portsmouth, NH, October 17th-19th, p. 57-60

2012 Apr.

Stuttgart, Germany

Invitee to the 2012 Nuance Automotive Forum Europe, Stuttgart, Germany, April 16th.

2011Dec.

Burgos, Spain

Alvarez, I., (2011) Guest Speaker in III Jornadas de Investigación Universidad de Burgos, Analysis y desarrollo del Asistente Conversacional del Automovil, Burgos, Spain, December 14th.

2011 Nov.

Detroit, MI, USA

Invitee to the 2011 Nuance Auto Forum, The ABCs of the Connected Car, Detroit, MI, USA, November 7-8th.

2011Oct.

Salzburg, Austria

Alvarez, I. , Alnizami, H., Dunbar, J., Johnson, A., Jackson, F., & Gilbert, J.E. (2011) Designing Driver-centric Natural Voice User Interfaces. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Salzburg, Austria, pp. 166-169.

2011Oct.

Honolulu, HW, USA

Andujar, M., Ekandem, J.,Alvarez, I., James, M. and Gilbert, J.E., (2011), Are Educational Video Games All They're Cracked Up To Be?: A Physiological Approach For Measuring Engagement in Educational Video Games vs. Conventional Learning Techniques, inE-Learn 2011--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, October 18-21

2011Sep.

Lisbon, Portugal

Alvarez, I., Fischer, H.P., (2011), iHelp: The Ubiquitous Vehicle User Help, Workshop User Experience in Cars. In conjunction with 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, September 05-09

2011Apr.

Greenville, SC, USA

Alvarez, I. (2011) Technology Acceptance study on the Spoken Asistive Vehicle System, Poster presentation, in Proceedings of ADMI 2011, Symposium on Cloud Computing, Greenville, SC, April 12-16th

2011Feb.

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Darnell, S.S., Alvarez, I., Ekandem, J.I., Woodard, D.L. and Gilbert, J.E. (2011), MyDash: The Biometric Digital Dashboard, In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications (MIAA `11) organized at the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI `11), February 13, 2011, Palo Alto, CA, pp. 53-56.

2010Nov.

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Alvarez, I., Martin, A., Dunbar, J., Taiber, J., Wilson, D., and Gilbert, J (2010). Voice Interfaced Vehicle User Help. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (Automotive UI 2010) in-cooperation with ACM, 29th November 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, pp.42-49.

2010May.

Burgos, Spain

Alvarez, I., (2013) Guest speaker in Burgos a century of history, Evolución Tecnológica de la Fotografía, Burgos University, Burgos April 10-11

2010Mar.

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Alvarez, I. Guest Speaker in NVA App on Wheels Workshop Designing Social Networking Apps for Automotive Environments

2008Mar.

Zurich, Switzerland

Alvarez, I., (2008) Invitee at iPhone Tech Talk. iPhone Applications Developers Conference, Zurich, Swizwerland, November 7th

Personal Development

2015 Portland, OR Editorial Board International Journal of Vehicular Telematics and Infotainment Systems (IJVTIS)

2014Sept.

Seattle, WA USA

Steering Committee AutoUI´14

2013Sept.

Eindhoven, Netherlands

Steering Committee AutoUI´13

2013Jun.

Guest Editor Elsevier PCM Special Issue, “The social Car”

2012 Dec.

SanSebastian, Spain

Suma Cum Laude and International Doctor awards for the defense of “Contributions to the development of intelligent conversational assistants in automotive environments”.

2012 Oct.

Portsmouth, PA, USA

Steering Committee AutoUI´12

2011 May.

Clemson,SC, USA

US Connected Vehicle Challenge Winner Clemson’s Integrated Intelligent Transportation Platform

2011Apr.

San Francisco, CA, USA

Richard Tapia Diversity in Computing TeraGrid Scholarship recipient

2011Feb.

Burgos, Spain

PhD proposal with Honors award for the defense of “Design and development of the concept of Conversational Driver Assistant”.

2010Oct.

Clemson, SC, USA

SACNAS Clemson ChapterMember of the SC Board: Online Media Activities Personal development for Minorities in Universities, outreach activities for minorities in Clemson area (mentoring, tutoring, skills building)

2010May.

Clemson SC, USABurgos, SpainValladolid, Spain

Clemson Outreach Ambassador Mentoring, Tutoring and Recruiting Spanish students for US Graduate and Postgraduate Studies

2008Oct.

Burgos, Spain

Honors Award Best Bachelor Student of 2007 in Burgos University at the Communication and Media BA

2009Nov.

Clemson, SC, USA

Member of HSA (Hispanic Student Association) Clemson University Chapter

2009Aug.

Burgos, Spain

Excellence Award in Academic StudiesCaja de Burgos and University of Burgos

Skills

Hobbies

Software • MS-Office ( Word, Excel, Access, Front Page, Powerpoint, Project, Visio, EndNote) , iWork

• Adobe CS6 (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, SoundBox, Bridge, Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver, …)

• Print design: QuarkXpress, Framemaker • Video editing: Final Cut Pro, Cool Edit Pro • Animation (3D): Blender, Maya7, SolidWorks, Cinema 4D • Statistics: SSPS, StatPlus Pro • Web Development: HTML, XML, XSL, PHP, JavaScript, Java, SQL • Programming Languages: Java, C++, Objective C • Mobile App Development: Android, iOS, PhoneGap, Query • Scripting (Speech): VXML, Nuance Vocon, Praat • Artificial Intelligence: Weka, HTK • Cloud Computing: Hadoop, HBase, TSDB, Kafka, AKKA, • Test Management: Quality Center • Support processes: Remedy, OPTIS • Fit in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Languages • Spanish: Mother language • English: Fluent (C2) • German: Fluent (C2) • Chinese: Intermediate (B1/HSK 3)

*According to the European Framework of Reference for Languages

Languages, Traveling, Photography, Painting, Reading, Cinema, History, Culture, Sports, Music, Latin Dance.