Andreu Català MallofréView profile
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Dr. Andreu Català Mallofré is a Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), affiliated with the Department of Systems, Automatic and Industrial Informatics Engineering. He serves as the principal investigator at the CETpD - Centre d'Estudis Tecnològics per a l'Atenció a la Dependència i la Vida Autònoma (Technical Research Center for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living) and leads the TOC - Tecnologia Orientada a la Comunitat (Community-Oriented Technology) research group. With an academic career spanning over 30 years, he specializes in assistive technologies, human-computer interaction, and biomedical data analysis. His research interests focus on Wearable health monitoring systems Parkinson's disease management solutions Frailty assessment algorithms Emotion-driven computing Community-embedded technology Gerontechnology applications These areas have produced 367 academic outputs including 59 indexed journal articles, 148 conference papers, and 66 competitive R&D projects. Recent publications demonstrate a clear trend toward multimodal health monitoring combining inertial sensors with biometric data for aging populations . Key application areas include freezing-of-gait detection in Parkinson's patients and distress estimation during assisted mobility. His 2024 work explores agricultural sustainability through data-driven fertilizer optimization. Scientific recognition includes UPC Social Council Award (2013) 20+ years as conference committee member Multiple competitive R&D grants 23391773000 Scopus ID Orcid 0000-0001-8775-1955 As academic advisor, he has mentored 3 PhD candidates including Daniel Manuel Rodriguez-Martin (Human Movement Analysis, 2020) Leonid Ivonin (Physiological Signal Processing, 2014) John Neal Abram Brown (Calm Computing, 2014) His teams operate within Vilanova i la Geltrú's School of Engineering, with strong industry and healthcare sector collaborations.










