Francesc J. Ferri

Francesc J. Ferri is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Valencia since 2008. He holds a Licenciado in Physics (1987) and a Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition (1993) from the same university. His research focuses on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning, with contributions to subspace learning, metric learning, and kernel methods. He has authored/co-authored ~140 papers (h-index=11 as of 2011), with notable work on feature selection and large-scale classification.

• Education: Licenciado in Physics (1987), Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition (1993), both from University of Valencia.
• Affiliations: Member of AERFAI, IAPR, ACM, IEEE.

Teaching includes courses on Automata Theory, Algorithms, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has advised multiple Ph.D. and MSc students, including Adrian Perez-Suay (metric learning) and Katerine Diaz-Chito (subspace-based image recognition).

Research projects include sabbaticals at Surrey University (1993) and Michigan State (2005), and collaborations on audio event detection, bioinformatics, and e-learning systems. His recent work addresses explainable AI, edge computing for safety systems, and multidataset HRTF analysis.