Jesús Salillas is the Director of the R&D at Prous Science, where he leads research in speech and image processing areas, broadband technologies and data mining. He received his engineering degree in Telecommunications from the Politechnical University of Catalunya in Barcelona in 1991. He obtained a Masters degree in Image and Video Processing from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris in 1992. Mr Salillas acted as principal investigator in several international video compression and coding projects involving the University of Maryland, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris and the Politechnical University of Catalunya. He has published several papers in speech and image coding data mining and artificial intelligence and several of his projects have obtained scientific awards. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.