This presentation will cover some of the current research lines related to some recent and ongoing projects at the Signal Processing and Acoustic Technology (SPAT) group of the University of Valencia. The talk is motivated by the recent incorporation of Maximo Cobos to the DEIB, who will be spending three months at the Politecnico di Milano as a visiting professor. This presentation is therefore aimed at presenting the main research areas and last works of his group, with a brief introduction to some topics that may be aligned with some of the interests of the department and, hopefully, at promoting further collaborations among the groups of both institutions.

Maximo Cobos is an Associate Professor with the Engineering School of the Universitat de Valencia (Spain). He received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the Universitat Politècnica de València in 2009, and worked for the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications after being awarded by the "Campus of Excellence" post-doctoral fellowship. His research focuses on the area of signal processing and machine learning for audio and multimedia, with application to source localization, separation, identification, among others. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a full member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and a member of the Audio Signal Processing Technical Committee of the European Acoustics Association (EAA).