Javier Macías Guarasa

Javier Macías Guarasa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics at the University of Alcalá. His primary research focuses on intelligent systems for infrastructure monitoring, human activity analysis, and acoustic/sensor-based surveillance. He leads the GEINTRA research group dedicated to applications in smart spaces and transportation.

He earned his PhD from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with a thesis on speech recognition architectures. His work integrates machine learning, fiber optics, and sensor networks to address challenges in pipeline integrity, environmental sustainability education, and assistive technologies.

Key research areas include distributed acoustic sensing in optical fibers, automated evaluation of human functional limitations, and hybrid models for threat detection. His recent projects emphasize real-world deployments of smart surveillance systems and educational analytics.

Publications highlight advancements in fiber optic-based pipeline surveillance, multimodal activity recognition, and acoustic localization techniques. He collaborates on EU initiatives like the PIT-STOP project for infrastructure protection.