PhD Students

Daniel de Alcalá
PhD Candidate (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Advanced Representation Learning
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and Julian Fierrez
Sergio Romero
PhD Candidate (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Artificial Intelligence Applied to Precision Nutrition
Supervisors: Ruben Tolosana and Aythami Morales


Eric Macías
Industrial PhD Candidate (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento)
Thesis: Responsible Artificial Intelligence for e-Health Applications
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and IIC member
Gonzalo Mancera
PhD Candidate (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Biometrics and Behavior for discrimination-aware and Trustworthy AI with applications
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and Julian Fierrez


Javier Irigoyen
PhD Candidate (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Development of Thrustworthy AI
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and Francisco Jurado
Past Students

Roberto Daza
PhD 2025 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Context-aware Behavioral Modeling based on Human-Machine Interaction
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and Julian Fierrez
Luis Felipe Gómez
PhD 2025 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Enhancing security and applicability in multimodal facial biometrics
Supervisors: Julian Fierrez and Aythami Morales


Alejandro Peña
PhD 2024 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Towards New Socially Responsible AI Learning
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and Julian Fierrez
Ignacio Serna
PhD 2024 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Understanding Bias at Multiple Levels in Computer Vision Algorithms with a focus on Face Recognition
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and Javier Ortega-García


Javier Hernandez
PhD 2022 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Face Biometrics: Image Quality and Physiology Analysis for Behavior Understanding and Improved Security
Supervisors: Julian Fierrez and Aythami Morales
Alejandro Acien
PhD 2021 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Modelling Human-Computer Interaction: New Applications based on Biometric Signal Processing [pdf]
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and Rubén Vera-Rodríguez


Derlin Morocho
PhD 2019 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Thesis: Human-Assisted Automatic Signature Recognition [pdf]
Supervisors: Aythami Morales and Julián Fierrez
Moisés Diaz
PhD 2016 (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Thesis: Synthetic signature generation for automatic signature verification [pdf]
Supervisors: Miguel A. Ferrer and Aythami Morales
