Iván Contreras Fernández-Dávila is a professor and researcher in the Department of Electronics and Automation at the Universitat de Girona (UdG). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2014 , receiving the European Mention, Summa Cum Laude honors, and the prestigious GENIL award for the best PhD thesis. Throughout his professional career, he has conducted research at prominent institutions such as the IE Business School and the Universidad Complutense , alongside completing one-year international research stays at the University of Nottingham (UK) and the Fraunhofer Institute (Germany). Currently, he combines his teaching duties at UdG with his role as Research Director at the EASY technology transfer center, which holds the TECNIO quality accreditation.
His primary research line focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, with a strong emphasis on medical technologies for chronic disease management and electrostimulation. In this field, he has served as Principal Investigator for several competitive projects, including VaNeSA—which models non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for autoimmune diseases —as well as the European and national projects SMART-diabetes (Marie Curie Actions) and HYPOMIN. Furthermore, he has actively contributed as a research team member to high-impact initiatives such as the DEXCOM Chair and the European PROMETEUS project.
As a result of this extensive research and technology transfer activity, he has secured over €2.5 million in competitive funding and authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals and book chapters. His most notable recent publications include contributions to high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, Computers in Biology and Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Additionally, he is deeply committed to mentoring the next generation of scientists, having successfully co-supervised 8 PhD theses and 10 Master''s theses.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-818X