Álvaro García Martín obtained the degree in Telecommunications Engineer in 2007, a Postgraduate Master in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering in 2009, and a PhD in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering in 2013, all of them at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 2007 he joined the Video Procesing & Understanding Lab (VPULab) group at this University and since 2019 he is an Associated PhD Professor there. He has participated in research projects on multimedia content transmission (PROMULTIDIS and MESH), video security (ATI @ SHIVA) and recognition of activities or events (SEMANTIC, EVENTVIDEO, HAvideo, SARADL, MobiNetVideo and SOFDL) and has spent 3 months stays in Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Queen Mary University (QMUL) and at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). Research in the VPU has resulted in thirteen JCR indexed journals and publications in the most relevant conferences in the Computer Vision area.