Dr. Antonio Javier Gallego holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Alicante (UA) (2004) and a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the same institution (2012). Since 2011, he has been a member of the Department of Software and Computing Systems at UA, where he progressed from part-time lecturer to associate professor in 2020. He currently serves as Director of the Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, and Deputy Director of the Degree in Artificial Intelligence at UA.

Dr. Gallego is an active researcher in the university's Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence group (PRAIg), where he has developed his research work to date. His research focuses on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Computer Vision. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Valencian Graduate School and Research Network of AI (ValgrAI), and a member of the executive committee of the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI). For further details, visit his brief CV.

His current PhD students are: Alberto Ferrero-López, Alejandro Galán-Cuenca, Antonio Requena-Jiménez, Alejandro Sánchez-Ferrer, and Luis Josmar Suarez. His PhD graduates are: Javier Ortega-Bastida, Samer Alashhab, Marisa Bernabeu, and Juan P. Martinez-Esteso.

Publications

• Google Scholar
• ORCID (0000-0003-3148-6886)
• ResearchGate
• dblp
• Scopus

As Principal Investigator (PI):

• LEMUR: Music Representation Learning for Efficient Multimodal Retrieval
• SmallOMR: Practical Approaches to Optical Music Recognition: Small-Data Learning
• DOReMI: Digitization of Historical Works through Adaptive Optical Music Recognition in Images
• TADMar: Domain Adaptation Techniques for Maritime Search and Rescue Tasks
• ROMA: Optical Music Recognition using Domain Adaptive Techniques

Selected project collaborations:

• EXPLORA-TENN: Theoretical Approaches to Expressivity in Neural Networks
  2025–2028 · €310,625 · Ref: AIA2025-163919-C53
• REPERTORIUM: Researching and Encouraging the Promulgation of European Repertory through Technologies Operating on Records Interrelated Utilising Machines
  2023–2025 · Total budget: €3,000,000 · UA budget: €201,875 · Ref: 101095065 · European Commission
• ENJAMBRE: Misiones críticas de emergencias con medios aéreos tripulados y no tripulados en vuelo cooperativo
  2014–2017 · Total budget: €9,890,775 · Ref: IDI-20141234

Research community contributions

• Datasets
• GitHub

Other links

• Linkedin