Projects and Grants

 BACK

Oct 2023–Nov 2024

Title: HE Connects: UK - Americas Partnerships for TNE and Internationalisation. Type: British Council Transnational Education Programme. Funder: The British Council Mexico. Participant Institutions: RGU, Tec de Monterrey. Role: Principal Investigator. Code: 2053596. Amount: £20’000.

Aug 2023–Aug 2025

Title: Automation of Digital Twin Creation and Inspection. Type: Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, EServ. Role: Principal Investigator. Code: 1739225. Amount: £182’832.54. URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/project/1739225/automation-of-digital-twin-creation-and-inspection

Apr 2023 – May 2023

Title: Machine Learning for Process Mapping of Multi-investment Platforms. Type: Smart Grant. Funder: Consultancy. Participant Institutions: RGU, Sticklr. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 1778109. Amount: £30’000.

Sep 2022 – Jun 2023

Title: Advanced Computer Vision for Inspection in the Energy Sector. Type: Short course funding. Funder: The Data Lab. Participant Institutions: RGU. Role: Principal investigator. Code: 1681568. Amount: £30’000.

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023

Title: Transferring knowledge on climate change and circular economy from the Mexican diaspora. Type: Capacity Development Lab grant. Funder: European Union Global Diaspora Facility (EUDiF). Participant Institutions: Red Global MX. Role: Co-Investigator. Amount: In-kind contribution (guidance by experts and funds to organise events). URL: https://diasporafordevelopment.eu/working-with-mexican-diaspora-academics-to-accelerate-climate-change-and-circular-economy-education/

Feb 2022 – Mar 2022

Title: AI-Empowered Document Mapping and Testing for Investment Platform Processes. Type: Innovation Voucher. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Sticklr. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 1529307. Amount: £5’000.

Feb 2022 – Aug 2022

Title: SAIBOK: Subsea Artificial Intelligence Body Of Knowledge. Type: Industry/Academia Collaboration. Funder: OGTC. Participant Institutions: RGU, National Subsea Centre, Intel. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 933101. Amount: £100’000.

Feb 2021 – Feb 2022

Title: KIRK: Digitisation for Mechanical Drawings. Type: Industry funded. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Fieri Analytics. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 965267. Amount: £215’000.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021

Title: Feasibility study to assess data extraction tools for digitisation. Type: Innovation Voucher. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Archimech AI. Role: Principal Investigator. Code: 999690. Amount: £5’000.

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021

Title: ThermaFY: Thermal images for COVID detection. Type: Advanced Innovation Voucher. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Shock Innovations. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 917856. Amount: £20’000.

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020

Title: Toward fully automated framework for digitising complex engineering drawings. Type: Innovation Voucher. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Aventus AI. Role: Co-investigator. Code: 853642. Amount: £5’000.

Feb 2020 – Dec 2021

Title: Intelligent SYStems for assisted medical diagnosis for CARDIOvascular diseases (SYSCARDIO). Type: Newton Fund Institutional Links. Funder: British Council & Secretaria de Tecnología, Educación e Innovación (SECTEI, Mexico City). Participant Institutions: RGU, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Role: Principal investigator. Code: 321189. Amount: £233’000 (both institutions).

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020

Title: LiberEat Data Science Project. Type: Industry/Academia collaboration. Funder: The Data Lab (TDL Scotland). Participant Institutions: RGU, LiberEat. Role: Principal investigator. Code: 244873. Amount: £20’000.

Nov 2019 – Feb 2020

Title: SBRI Artificial Intelligence Supported Early Diagnostics in Fracture Detection. Type: Small Business Research Initiative. Funder: Scottish Government, Opportunity North East (ONE) Participant Institutions: RGU, Jiva.ai. Role: Principal investigator. Code: 321195. Amount: £20’000.

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021

Title: Multi-layer authentication platform. Type: Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Programme. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Mintra Group. Role: Co-investigator. Code: 166441. Amount: £180’000.

 Feb 2019 – Apr 2019

 

 

 

Title: Childhood obesity: An integrated review towards the comprehension of scientific data sources. Type: Industry/Academia collaboration. Funder: The Data Lab (TDL Scotland).  Participant Institutions: RGU, National Services Scotland (NSS), University of Aberdeen. Role: Principal investigator. Code: 177202. Amount: £20’000.

Jan 2019 – May 2019

Title: Postdoctoral and early career exchange bursary. Type: Academic exchange personal grant. Funder: The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).  Code: 191326. Amount: £3’400.

Aug 2018 – Jul 2019

 

Title: Data extraction from complex engineering drawings. Type: Industry/Academia collaboration. Funder: The Data Lab (TDL Scotland), The Oil and Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC).  Participant Institutions:  RGU, Det Norske Veritas - Germanischer Lloyd (DNV GL). Role: Co-investigator. Code: 123491. Amount: £120’000.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019

 

Title: SoftWarE Defined edGE clouds (SWEDGE). Type: Research group funding. Funder: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO-Spain).  Participant Institutions:  URV. Code: TIN2016-77836-C2-2-R.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017

Title: Intelligent digitisation platform for processing, detecting and classifying symbols in technical drawings. Type: Industry/Academia collaboration. Funder: The Data Lab (TDL Scotland).  Participant Institutions: RGU, DNV GL. Role: Research Fellow. Code: 114347.

Feb 2016 – Apr 2016

Title: DIDACtics in MAThematics (DIDACMAT) project. Type: Personal grant. Funder: URV. Code: ICEA11_1516_DIDACMAT_2A_CONV.

Sep 2015 – Dec 2015

Title: ERASMUS+ mobility grant for international research internships. Type: Academic exchange personal grant. Funder: European Commission.

Feb 2015 – Apr 2015

Jan 2014 – Dec 2017

 

Title: Psychobiology Journal (PsicoBio) project. Type: Personal grant. Funder: URV. Code: ICE_A09_1415.

Title: Community Networks & Clouds (Cloud4comm). Type: Research group funding. Funder: MINECO-Spain. Participant Institutions:  URV. Code: TIN2013-47245-C2-1-R.

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015

 

Dec 2013 – Feb 2014

 

Sep 2013 – Aug 2016

Title: A semi-supervised and interactive method to help a team of robots to solve the object identification problem through images. Type: Research group funding. Funder: URV. Code: 2014-LINE-01.

Title: Students of Mobility in Learning English (SMiLE) project. Type: Personal grant. Funder: URV. Code: ICEC01/13_SMILE.

Title: Doctoral fellowship grant. Type: Personal grant. Funder: Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONACyT-Mexico).

Sep 2012 – Aug 2013

Title: International student masters grant. Type: Personal grant. Funder: URV.