Ester Vidaña-Vila, PhD

Welcome to My Research Webpage

I am a lecturer and researcher, member of the Human-Environment Research (HER) group at La Salle Campus Barcelona, Ramon Llull University.

My research focuses on acoustic event detection and classification in multiple environments using machine learning and deep learning techniques.

Academic background:

PhD in Automatic Acoustic Event Classification

La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llul University, 2018 - 2022

Thesis title:“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

La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University, 2023 - 2025

Thesis title: “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

La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University, 2017-2018

Awarded as best student of the promotion

Thesis title: “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

La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University, 2012-2017

Thesis title: “An authomatic audio classifier for Picidae bird species” (Excellent with Honours)

Accreditations:

• Accredited as Lecturer — AQU Catalunya (Agency for the Quality of the Catalan University System)
• Research Six-Year Term (Sexenio) Awarded — AQU Catalunya

Scientific collaborations:

Guest editor of the Special Issue , "Intelligent Industrial Internet of Things: From Theory to Real-World Applications"

Technical Program Committee of the conferences Cloud2Things 2022, Cloud2Things 2023 and MetaCom23.

Reviewer of the journals Bioacoustics, IJERPH, Computer Speech and Language, Applied Sciences, Royal Society Open Science.

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.