Personal Details

Raquel Justo received her Electronics Engineering Degree from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2001, and her Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Cantabria in 2004. She obtained her Master's degree and Ph.D. in Language and Information Systems, also from UPV/EHU, in 2005 and 2009 respectively.

When finishing her graduate studies she spent two years at IK4-Ikerlan research centre working in the Advanced Sensors Department. Since 2003, she is with the Speech-Interactive (SPIN) research group (formerly Pattern Recognition and Speech Technology (PR&ST)) at UPV/EHU, where she has been working in automatic speech recognition and understanding, dialog management and emotion detection. She has been a lecturer at University of the Basque Country since 2007. She carried out a research stay at the Technical University of Valencia in 2006 and she has been a visitor researcher in the Natural Language and Dialogue System (NLDS) lab at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She has participated in several national and local research projects and she is currently leading one of them. She has also been involved in different research contracts granted by private companies.