He received his PhD from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona in 1999. He has been working for more than 20 years in the field of document analysis, focusing more specifically on Robust Reading during the last years. He has an ample record of publications in international conferences and journals on this topic. He has led several research and technology transfer projects with companies. He is the current director of the Computer Science Department at UAB. He is member of the IAPR TC-10 and TC-11 and he has been involved in the organization of different events in the field of document analysis (ICDAR, GREC) and was also responsible for the organization of the series of symbol recognition competition in the context of the GREC workshop.