Ester Vidaña-Vila, PhD
Human-Environment Research Group
La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull
Academic background
PhD in Automatic Acoustic Event Classification
Thesis: “Acoustic event detection and classification in urban environments using low-cost devices” (Excellent – Cum Laude)
Defense date: 6 April 2022
Master's Degree in Philosophy and Humanities
Thesis: “Beatriz en la (pos)modernidad: ecos de la musa de Dante en la pintura de Rossetti y la literatura de J.K. Rowling” (Excellent)
Master's Degree in Telecommunication Systems Engineering
Awarded as best student of the promotion.
Thesis: “Scalable system for real-time acoustic monitoring of partially dependent people in distributed environments” (Excellent with Honours)
Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, majoring in Audiovisual Systems
Thesis: “An automatic audio classifier for Picidae bird species” (Excellent with Honours)
Accreditations
Accredited as Lecturer
AQU Catalunya – Agency for the Quality of the Catalan University System
19VMYQ0R5
Research Six-Year Term (Sexenio)
Awarded by AQU Catalunya
MCFRXWGMZ
Scientific collaborations
- Guest editor of the Special Issue “Intelligent Industrial Internet of Things: From Theory to Real-World Applications”.
- Technical Program Committee of Cloud2Things 2022 , Cloud2Things 2023 and MetaCom23 .
- Reviewer for Bioacoustics, IJERPH, Computer Speech and Language, Applied Sciences, Royal Society Open Science, Ecological Informatics and JASA.
- Co-coordinator of DCASE Challenge Task 5 (2022–2025).
- Lecturer and organizer of the Summer School of Forum Acusticum 2025 (Hot Topic 7: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Acoustics).
- Organizer of the Bioacoustics main theme of Forum Acusticum 2025 .
- Organizer of BIODCASE 2025 and BIODCASE 2026 .
- Organizer of the Bioacoustics session of TECNIACÚSTICA 2026 .