Ciro Gracia Pons

Ciro Gracia Pons is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Kognia Sports Intelligence since February 2022, with prior experience as an R&D Engineer at VERBIO from May 2014 to February 2022, where responsibilities included the research and development of biometric products and the development of acoustic models for ASR and speech analytics tools. Ciro completed a research internship in the speech analytics group at Telefonica's digital services in early 2014, after which a PhD was pursued from January 2007 to January 2014, focusing on speech technology and acoustic pattern recognition. Earlier roles include serving as an Occupational Formation professor for the Generalitat de Catalunya and a Networking Department Technician at Xarxes manteniment i serveis. Ciro holds a Master's degree in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence and dual bachelor's degrees in Computer Engineering and Technical Engineering in Computer Systems from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat Rovira i Virgili, respectively.