About me

Aythami Morales (AM), Msc (2006) and PhD (2011) is a product of the Spanish I+D+I Programs with a research career based on National competitive contracts: FPI (07-11), ULPGC Postdoc (12-14) , JdC (14-17), JdC-I (17), mobility between two universities and research stays in top international laboratories: Schepens Research Institute – Harvard Medical School (USA, 2017; José Castillejo Fellowship), Hong Kong Polytecnic University (China, 2010 & 2012), University of Bologna (Italy, 2011)  and Michigan State University (USA, 2010). In 2014 he moved from ULPGC to UAM where he is currently Associate Professor since 2023 (CAM Lecturer Excellence Program, accredited to Full Professor).

Included in the Stanford/Elsevier World Top 2% Scientists List 2024 in the Artificial Intelligence area

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS: He is author of 65 articles published in JCR journals, where 66% correspond to Q1 (58% in D1) journals in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Engineering. These articles have been published in the most prestigious journals including 3 articles in IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (impact factor 16.39, 1/140 in COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE). He is author of more than 150 conference papers including the most prestigious venues in his area AAAI, ICPR, ICIP, CVPRw, ECCVw, ICB, IJCB,… Internationalization is a key aspect of his career, with around 50% of his publications co-authored with researchers from international institutions, including MIT and Harvard. He is an active member of the scientific community serving as Program Co-Chair (IbPRIA19, ICCST17), Publication Chair (CIARP18, CAIP25), member of Organization Committees (URSI16, JVHC13,NOLISP11, FWTMIP10), Area Chair (ICB18), Session Chair (BTAS16, ICCST13) and continuous participation in the technical committees of key conferences in his area since 2009 (CVPR, AAAI, ICB, ICPR, WACV, IJCB, BTAS…).

More than 200 articles published in top international journals and conferences

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIETY: He has been Principal Investigator of 4 National projects, 1 autonomic project, and 1 H2020 project. He has participated in 8 National Research Projects, 2 FP7 European Projects, and 2 H2020 projects. He has participated in several technology transfer contracts with the industry including four contracts as PI with VERIDAS, Accenture, nQ Medical, and VINCES Consulting. All these projects were focused on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Privacy, and Biometric Recognition technologies. He is author of three patents related with fingerprint recognition and bot detection. He participates in outreach activities to society including “Meet the Fellows 2016” as part of European Comission Marie Sklodowska actions; La Noche Europea de los Investigadores 2019; Tecnológica SC 21, Science4Industry 2024, Pint of Sciences 2025, invited in various outreach articles to the society in El País (the most read newspaper in Spanish online): Ronaldo, Messi y los algoritmos adversarios, Cuando los pioneros se jubilan. Ante el abismo de suplir el talento que impulsó el avance tecnológico en España.

More than 3M euros reached in research projects as PI

MENTORSHIP ACTIVITIES: he is Deputy Director of Research and Innovation in the Polytechnical School of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He was Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He was co-director of 8 PhD Thesis and he is co-director of five ongoing PhD thesis.