Honors and awards

PRIZES

• Honorable Mention from the New Business Jury to the "Connecting the Car" demonstration. Telefónica Research Fair. Madrid, November 14, 2008.

• José A. Olivera, 2006-2007 Prize to the Best Master Thesis in Computer Science, awarded by Caja Castilla La Mancha. May 2008.

• José A. Olivera, 6th Edition InfoGLOBAL Prize to the Best Master Thesis in Computer Science. December 2007.

• C. Pinart, 2006 Prize to the Best PhD Dissertation in Telecommunications Networks and Services, awarded by the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT) and sponsored by the Telefónica Foundation. June 2007.

SERVICE

• I. Lequerica, Leader of the Redes Vehiculares (VENS) Group, Spanish eMOV Technology Platform.

• C. Pinart, Technical Program Committee Member of the 3rd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2010), co-located with TRIDENTCOM 2010.

• C. Pinart, Invited panelist, panel "El futuro de las VANETs" at the 2º Workshop sobre seguridad en VANETs. Madrid (Spain), October 1, 2009.

• C. Pinart, Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE Workshop on Networking Intelligent Vehicles and Infrastructures (NiVi 2009), co-located with Globecom 2009.

• C. Pinart, Guest editor of the IEEE Network Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks".

• C. Pinart, Chair of the session "Vehicular Communications III" at the IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2009 Spring). Barcelona (Spain), April 27, 2009.

• C. Pinart, Panel and Demonstration Co-Chair of the 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AD HOC NOW 2009).

• C. Pinart, Moderator of the session "Tecnologías de Comunicaciones: Comunicaciones Vehículo-Vehículo-Infraestructura", I Fórum Internacional de las TIC en la Automoción (FITICA 2009). Barcelona (Spain), January 26, 2009.

• C. Pinart, Technical Program Committee Member of the 1st International Workshop on Vehicular Communication Technologies (VehiCom 2009).

• I. Lequerica, Technical Program Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AD HOC NOW 2009).

• C. Pinart, Technical Program Committee Member of the 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009), co-located with TRIDENTCOM 2009.

• C. Pinart, Vehicular Communications Track Co-chair of the IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2009 Spring).

• C. Pinart, Technical Program Committee Member of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor & Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008).

• C. Pinart, Technical Program Committee Member of the 13th IEEE International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (Networks 2008).

• C. Pinart, Technical Program Committee Member of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2008).

• C. Pinart, Technical Program Committee Member of the IARIA International Conference on Communications Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2008 and 2009).