Oscar Mayora

Dr. Mayora obtained his Ph. D. at DIBE, University of Genoa, Italy in 2000. In the same year, he joined the Advance Interactive Systems Laboratory at VTT Electronics in Oulu, Finland, as an ERCIM Visiting Research Fellow. In August 2001 he was appointed Associate Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Head of the Graduate Program in Computer Science in January 2002. Dr. Mayora is member of the Mexican National Research System (SNI-level 1) and is Senior Member of the ACM and SIG-CHI. He is the former president of ACM SIG-CHI for Mexico. He has participated as general chair of various conferences and is founder of Pervasive Health Conference, and Latin American Conference on HCI. Dr. Mayora has published over 100 papers in International Conferences and Journals and his Erdos Number is 3. Dr. Mayora has coordinated and work in several European projects including FP6 SAMBA, FP7 NYMPHA-MD, MONARCA, INTERSTRESS, UBIHEALTH, NextMedia and H2020 FIWARE-Mexico, SmartSDK among others. Dr. Mayora was the head of Ubiquitous Health Group at Create-Net and is currently working in the Health and Wellbeing Competence Center at FBK in Italy. In addition, Dr. Mayora is adjunct professor of at the University of Trento Faculty of Cognitive Sciences under the Interfaces and Communication Technology Program.