SOFTWARE ENGINEER

ANTONIO
BENÍTEZ-GUIJARRO

EMAIL

AJBENITEZGUIJARRO@GMAIL.COM

PHONE

+34 648 899 446

+48 579 726 948

NATIONALITY

SPANISH

(CURRENTLY BASED IN CRACOW)

AGE

28

ABOUT ME

I am Antonio Benítez Guijarro I am a Full Stack freelance developer. I studied Computer Engineering specialized in Software Engineering at the School of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Granada.

In the professional field I am interested above all in the fields related to computer science, research, new technologies and audiovisual entertainment, although I do not rule out trying anything else.

My hobbies are discovering new things in my work areas, creating and enjoying audiovisual content (videogames, music, movies, series or short films), traveling, enjoying free time with my family and friends and an endless number of activities. I consider myself a hard-working, creative, open-minded, sociable and quite empathetic person.

 Personally I think that the limits to achieve anything are those that we impose on ourselves and that the wealth of what we finally become is what we have come to discover by testing endless branches of possibilities in our path.

EDUCATION

EDUCATION

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi

  • Sep 2013 


    Sep 2017

    COMPUTER ENGINEERING BACHELOR'S DEGREE

    Graduated in Computer Engineering specialized on Software Engineering by the University of Granada.

  • Oct 2018


    Jul 2019

    SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MASTER'S DEGREE

    Master studies in Software Development by the University of Granada providing an updated overview on the current state of research and development in diverse areas related to software development.

ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

DRIVING LICENSE CATEGORY B

Obtained on May 2013.

3D MODELING AND ANIMATION COURSE

Graduated in 3D Modeling and Animation with Blender (medium level) by the University of Granada.

SUMMER SCHOOL ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

The fourth edition of the summer school was organised by the Software and Systems Engineering Research Group at unibz and is mainly intended for PhD and second-year Master students and practitioners. Themed mainly on Software Engineering for Mobile Applications

PEOPLEWARE IN ACTION COURSE

Peopleware course held on the University of Granada.

EXPERIENCE

PUBLICATIONS

Introducing Computational Semantics for Natural Language Understanding in Conversational Nutrition Coaches for Healthy Eating

Published in MDPI Proceedings 2018

Available here

Nutrition e-coaches have demonstrated to be a successful tool to foster healthy eating habits, most of these systems are based on graphical user interfaces where users select the meals they have ingested from predefined lists and receive feedback on their diet. In this paper, we present a method that improves state-of-the-art approaches by means of the inclusion of nutritional semantic aspects at different stages during the natural language understanding processing of the user written or spoken input. The outcome generated is a rich nutritional interpretation of each user ingest that is independent of the modality used to interact with the coach.

Available here

General Architecture for Development of Virtual Coaches for Healthy Habits Monitoring and Encouragement

Published in MDPI Sensors 2018

Available here

In this manuscript, we present system architecture intended to serve as a reference architecture for building HTA solutions. In order to validate the proposed architecture, we performed a preliminary evaluation with 15 well recognized experts in systems and software architecture from different entities around world and who have estimated that our proposal can generate architecture for HTA that is adequate, reliable, secure, modifiable, portable, functional, and with high conceptual integrity. In order to show the applicability of the architecture in different HTA, we developed two telemonitoring systems based on it, targeted to different tasks: nutritional coaching (Food4Living) and physical exercise coaching (TrainME). The purpose was to illustrate the kind of end-user monitoring applications that could be developed.

Available here

Architecting dietary intake monitoring as a service combining NLP and IoT

Published in Springer 2019

Available here

Currently there exist many tools that support monitoring and encouragement of healthy nutrition habits in the context of wellness promotion. In this domain, interfaces based on natural language provide more flexibility for nutritional self-reporting than traditional form-based applications, allowing the users to provide richer and spontaneous descriptions. In this paper, we present a service-based architecture that helps to contrast and complement the descriptions of food intakes by means of connected smart home devices, coordinating all the stages during the process of recognizing food records provided in natural language. Additionally, we aim to identify and design the essential services that are required to automate the recording and subsequent processing of natural language descriptions of nutritional intakes in association with smart home devices. The functionalities provided by each of these services are ready to work in isolation, just out of the box, or in downstream pipeline processes, bypassing the inconveniences of monolithic architectures.

Available here

Coordination of Speech Recognition Devices in Intelligent Environments with Multiple Responsive Devices

Published in MDPI Proceedings 2019

Available here

This paper presents an approach to rank several sources of spoken input in multi-device environments in order to give preference to the input with the highest estimated quality. The voice signals received by the multiple devices are assessed in terms of their calculated acoustic quality and the reliability of the speech recognition hypotheses produced. After this assessment, each input is assigned a unique score that allows the audio sources to be ranked so as to pick the best to be processed by the system. In order to validate this approach, we have performed an evaluation using a corpus of 4608 audios recorded in a two-room intelligent environment with 24 microphones. The experimental results show that our ranking approach makes it possible to successfully orchestrate an increasing number of acoustic inputs, obtaining better recognition rates than considering a single input, both in clear and noisy settings.

Available here

Co-creating Requirements and Assessing End-User Acceptability of a Voice-Based Chatbot to Support Mental Health: A Thematic Analysis of a Living Lab Workshop

Published in Springer 2020

Available here

Mental health and mental wellbeing have become an important factor to many citizens navigating their way through their environment and in the work place. New technology solutions such as chatbots are potential channels for supporting and coaching users to maintain a good state of mental wellbeing. Chatbots have the added value of providing social conversations and coaching 24/7 outside from conventional mental health services. However, little is known about the acceptability and user led requirements of this technology. This paper uses a living lab approach to elicit requirements, opinions and attitudes towards the use of chatbots for supporting mental health. The data collected was acquired from people living with anxiety or mild depression in a workshop setting. The audio of the workshop was recorded and a thematic analysis was carried out. The results are the co-created functional requirements and a number of use case scenarios that can be of interest to guide future development of chatbots in the mental health domain.

Available here

WORK EXPERIENCE
  • Sep 2017


    Dec 2017

    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

    Working as Full Stack developer, mobile developer (Native) and software tester in Ilogidis.

  • Dec 2018


    Aug 2019

    COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCHER

    Working as researcher in software architectures, IoTs settings, natural language understanding and validation techniques.

  • Apr 2019


    Aug 2019

    ACTION MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCHER

    Research program under RISE European project (MENHIR). Responsible of requirement extraction, website developing, graphic designer and project management tasks.

  • Oct 2020

    MENHIR INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEM FOR MENTAL E-HEALTH

    Participation in MENHIR International Doctoral Summer School in Conversational Systems for Mental e-health as a speaker at LAB: building a chatbot with Google Technology

  • Aug 2019


    Currently

    FULL STACK FREELANCE DEVELOPER

    Working as a Full Stack freelance developing web and mobile systems for Android and IOs.

PROJECTS

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MENHIR PROJECT WEBSITE

Installation, design and developing of WordPress Site for an European Commission Project (MENHIR Project).

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WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Installation, design and developing of WordPress Site for professional  resume.

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MOBILE APPS & OTHER PROJECTS

Gotmy

Development of a live video events marketplace app for web, IOS and Android using React-native.

Check the website here.

Check the iOS app here.

Check the Android app here.

Beast rent

Rent a tesla in just few minutes. Its a web project and IOS and Android using React-native.

Check the website here.

Check the iOS app here.

Check the Android app here.

REFERENCES

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Zoraida Callejas Carrión

Professor and lead researcher at the University of Granada

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Manuel Noguera García

Professor and lead researcher at the University of Granada

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Kawtar Benghazi Akhlaki

Professor and lead researcher at the University of Granada

adol

Adolfo Rivera Ariza

CEO at Ilogidis

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Gavin McConvey

Business Development Manager at AMH Action Mental Health

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Carlos Presa Andanuche

CTO Workia

1516574299145

Wojciech Soczyński

CEO at TH-EY

1554377411536

Filip Kubala

Co-founder at TH-EY S&D LTD

1637235824773

Filip Mazur

Lead Mobile Developer at TH-EY

1609681888921

Jose E. Puente

CEO gotmy | The Inspiring Platform for Virtual Events & Live Video

1601421602456

Faustino Castro

Co-Founder & CTO at gotmy

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