Work Experience

Cátedra ENIA UAM-VERIDAS en IA Responsable

2024-2026

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · Madrid, Spain

Researcher investigating digital attacks, specifically deepfakes, in face biometric systems, and proposing measures to improve the robustness and security of these systems.

AI: Machine Learning Foundations

2026

IE University · Madrid, Spain

Responsible for teaching an undergraduate course on artificial intelligence and machine learning foundations, introducing core concepts, methods, and practical tools for understanding and developing AI-based systems.

HumanCAIC: Enhanced Behavioral Biometrics for Human-Centric AI in Context

2023-2024

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · Madrid, Spain

Development of cloud systems for artificial intelligence applications and automatic biometric recognition algorithms.

Communications Electronics Laboratory

2023-2024

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · Madrid, Spain

Responsible for teaching communication electronics laboratory practices, with a particular focus on analog microstrip filter design, impedance matching, and the use of measurement equipment such as vector network analyzers.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer and Telecommunication Engineering

2020-2024

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · Madrid, Spain

Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship. Dissertation focused on enhancing security and applicability in multimodal facial biometrics.

Master of Science

2018-2020

Universidad de Antioquia · Antioquia, Colombia

Análisis de arquitecturas de aprendizaje profundo para el modelamiento de rostro y expresiones faciales.

Telecommunication Engineer

2012-2018

Universidad de Antioquia · Antioquia, Colombia

Verificación biométrica de identidad usando reconocimiento de rostros y patrones de tecleo.

Applied and Institutional Projects

DeepFakesDB

2025

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Development of a database composed of real and DeepFake videos in virtual meeting scenarios.

VERIDAS-ANTISPOOFING

2022-2023

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Development of attack detection modules for facial recognition systems.

VERIDAS-FACIAL-Q

2020-2021

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Development of quality assessment modules for facial recognition systems.

Selected Publications

Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos

2025

L. Pedrouzo-Rodriguez, P. Delgado-DeRobles, L.F. Gomez, R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, A. Morales, J. Fierrez

IJCB · IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics

Comparison of Visual Trackers for Biomechanical Analysis of Running

2025

L.F. Gomez, G. Garrido-Lopez, J. Fierrez, A. Morales, R. Tolosana, J. Rueda, E. Navarro

FGw · IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Workshops

Second FRCSyn-ongoing: Winning Solutions and Post-Challenge Analysis to Improve Face Recognition with Synthetic Data

2025

I. DeAndres-Tame, R. Tolosana, P. Melzi, R. Vera-Rodriguez, M. Kim, C. Rathgeb, X. Liu, L.F. Gomez, A. Morales, et al.

Information Fusion · Information Fusion

DeepFace-Attention: Multimodal Face Biometrics for Attention Estimation With Application to e-Learning

2024

R. Daza, L.F. Gomez, J. Fierrez, A. Morales, R. Tolosana, J. Ortega-Garcia

IEEE Access · IEEE Access

PAD-Phys: Exploiting Physiology for Presentation Attack Detection in Face Biometrics

2023

L.F. Gomez, J. Fierrez, A. Morales, M. Ghafourian, R. Tolosana, I. Solano, A. Garcia, F. Zamora-Martinez

COMPSAC · IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference

Exploring Facial Expressions and Action Unit Domains for Parkinson Detection

2023

L.F. Gomez, A. Morales, J. Fierrez, J.R. Orozco-Arroyave

PLOS ONE · PLOS ONE

Technical Areas

Computer Vision Face Biometrics Media Forensics Deepfakes Human Motion Analysis Deep Learning Machine Learning Pattern Recognition Signal Processing Image Processing