Recent Advances on Video Coding

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Dr. Javier (Javi) Del Ser was born in Barakaldo (Spain) in 1979. He joined the Faculty of Engineering of the University of the Basque Country (Spain) to study Electrical Engineering, obtaining his combined B.S. and M.S. degree. After finishing this degree, he became a recipient of the Fundacion de Centros Tecnologicos Inaki Goenaga doctoral grant, which allowed him to start working toward his Ph.D. degree CEIT, San Sebastian, in November 2003. In October 2006 he achieved the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering. In addition, he was a teaching assistant at TECNUN (University of Navarra), a visiting scholar at University of Delaware (USA) and an assistant professor and researcher at the University of Mondragon, Spain. Currently he is a senior research scientist and project leader at the Telecom Unit of TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION, involved in the organization of more than 25 national and international conferences. He is a member of the IEEE Communications, Signal Processing, Computational Intelligence and Information Theory societies.