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 Javier received an electronics engineering degree from the Engineering School ENSEIRB (Bordeaux, France), and a PhD in mobile communications from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Since October 2002, he has been with the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), Spain, where he is Full Professor and Director of the UWICORE laboratory.
At UWICORE, he leads research activities in the areas of vehicular networks, 5G multi-hop cellular networks and device-centric communications, and industrial wireless networks. Javier has published 45 journal papers and 86 papers in international conferences and has been Principal Investigator for 30 research projects and contracts.
He has received several awards at international and national conferences, the best research paper award from the Journal of Network and Computer Applications in 2014, and the runner-up prize for the Juan López de Peñalver Award of the Royal Academy of Engineering in Spain that recognizes the most notable Spanish engineers aged below 40. He is an expert evaluator for the European Commission and research agencies across Europe.
He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE VTS, and currently serves as Distinguished Speaker. He was IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine’s Mobile Radio Senior Editor, and currently serves on the editorial board of The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking.
He has also been very active in the organization of conferences. He was the General Co-chair for IEEE VTC2015-Spring in Glasgow (UK), ACM VANET 2013, ACM VANET 2012 and 3rd ISWCS 2006, and was also TPC Co-chair for IEEE VTC2011-Fall and IEEE VTC2009-Spring. He has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences including IEEE PIMRC, IEEE Latincom, Next-GWiN, or IEEE WiMob.
He first got involved with VTS in 2000 while pursuing his PhD at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). James Irvine (another very active VTS volunteer) was a Lecturer at Strathclyde and was involved in VTS as founder and EiC of VTS News (which became IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine in 2006).
Javier had always followed the developments in the mobile and wireless industries closely, so James suggested he report on this in a mobile radio column for VTS News. The column ran from 2000—2017, by which time VT Magazine had become a first quartile publication in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports.
Subsequently, he began volunteering at VTCs and became more active in VTS management after joining the VTS Board of Governors in 2011. He has been particularly active in the development of activities related to vehicular networks and connected vehicles.
Javier founded and co-chaired (2007, 2008, and 2010) the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular communications (WiVeC). He chaired the VTS Connected Vehicles initiative from 2015 to 2017, and now chairs the VTS Connected and Autonomous Vehicles initiative. He was also one of the founders of the IEEE Connected and Automated Vehicles Summit, an industry summit co-organized between VTS and Comsoc.
More recently, he is co-founder and Chair the 2018 IEEE Connected and Automated Vehicles Symposium (IEEE CAVS 2018) that will take place for the first time this fall co-located with VTC2018-Fall in Chicago. At the VTS management level, he lead the establishment of the VTS Early Career Award, the VTS Resource Center (VTS’ online multimedia library), and an initiative to invest Society reserves in VTS chapters activities. | 
. Javieris Junior Past President of IEEE VTS, has served on the BoG since 2011, and currently is Chair the VTS Nominations Committee. The VTS BoG consists of 15 elected members and a number of appointed members. Each yearfive BoG members are elected through general elections among those presented onthe slate.*/);){kind=small}
