2013 Specialist Meeting—Advancing the Spatially Enabled Smart Campus Huerta—1

JOAQUÍN HUERTA Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems University Jaume I of Castellón Email: [email protected]

Joaquín Huerta (B.A. and M.A.s, Computer Science and CAD/CAM, Politechnical University of ; Ph.D., Computer Science, ) is an associate professor at the Department of Information Systems at University Jaume I of Castellón in , where he teaches several courses related to GIS and Internet Technologies. Huerta’s current research interests are smart cities, gamification, VGI, sensors, mobile and web GIS applications, augmented reality, and 3D GIS. He is the head of the GEOTEC Research Group (http://www.geotec.uji.es), director of the Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies degree program (http://mastergeotech.info), run jointly with the universities of Münster (Germany) and Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) funded by Erasmus Mundus program. He is also director of the Joint Doctoral Program on Integration of Geospatial Information. He is and has been principal investigator for several important research projects including EU projects as EUROGEOSS (FP7) and ERMES (FP7) and also national and regional projects. He has published several journal articles and international conference papers. Huerta is an elected member of the Council of AGILE: the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (http://www.agile-online.org). He has participated actively in the organization of several events and conferences as EuroGEOSS 2012 Conference (http://eurogeoss2012.eu/) where he was chair of the organizing committee. He is also the chair of the program committee for the 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science hosted by the University Jaume I in June 2014 (http://www.agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conference-2014). In addition to his academic activities, Huerta is founding board member of several IT companies as the university spin-off Ubik Geospatial Solutions (http://www.ubikgs.com) and, thus, possesses considerable business experience as well as experience in systems integration