Workshop Organizers

For any questions or doubts, please contact us at ixrworkshop@gmail.com

Irene Viola

Irene Viola is a senior (tenured) scientist at the Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She received her M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, in 2015, and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2019. Her research interests include compression, delivery, and QoE for immersive media systems. She has served as a QUALINET chair for the task force in Immersive Media Experiences since 2017, and is actively involved in standardization bodies such as MPEG and ITU.

Silvia Rossi

Silvia Rossi is a senior PostDoc of the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands. She received her BSc and MSc degrees, both in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Bologna - Cesena (Italy), and her Ph.D in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from UCL, London (UK) in 2022. Truly passionate about multimedia and technology, her research interests are around immersive media systems, at the crossroads between multimedia processing, data processing and analysis, machine learning, and communication systems. She is also an active member of the multimedia community being part of the Special Interest Group of Multimedia (SIGMM) executive board and Records team.

Marta Orduna

Marta Orduna is a Telecommunication Engineer, BSc and MSc degrees in Telecommunication Engineering both from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). In 2023, she received her PhD from UPM entitled "Understanding and Assessing Quality of Experience in Immersive Communications”. In 2023, she joined Nokia Extended Reality Lab team in Spain, where she continues her research line of the PhD in the area of quality of experience in extended reality.

Maria Torres Vega

Maria Torres Vega is a tenure track assistant professor at KU Leuven (Belgium), where her research focuses on devising human-driven control and management mechanisms for enhancing the perception of immersive systems. She received her M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 2009 and her Ph.D. from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands in 2017. In 2022 she received the CNOM Young professional Award, granted by the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Network Operation and Management. Moreover in 2023, she received the Rising Star in Networking and Communications 2023 award granted by the IEEE Communication Society N2Women section. Her research interests include quality of service and QoE in immersive multimedia systems and autonomous networks management. She has served as chair of the Qualinet Task Force on Immersive Media Experiences.

Technical Program Committee

Roberto Azevedo (Disney Research, Switzerland)

Sara Baldoni (University of Padua, Italy)

Carlos Cortés (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Sam Van Damme (Ghent University, Belgium)

Anna Ferrarotti (Universitá degli Studi Roma TRE, Italy)

Alan Guedes (University of Reading)

Jesús Gutiérrez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)

Tim Wauters (Ghent University, Belgium)

Xuemei Zhou (CWI, The Netherlands)