Silvia Rodríguez-Jiménez is a PhD candidate advised by Dr. Mohamed Abderrahim in the field of Computer Vision to endow a robotic hand system with advanced perception capabilities. She received her M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2008 and "Diploma de Estudios Avanzados" (DEA) in 2010. Both degrees at the University of Oviedo (Spain) where she obtained several competitive grants to develop research activities in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the guidance of Dr. Ignacio Álvarez García, taking part in different national and european projects focused on Computer Vision, Image and Signal Processing.

From October 2010 to December 2010, she joined the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory at TU Delft (The Netherlands) to perform a 3-month internship, working on CMOS Image Sensors with the guidance of Prof. Dr. ir. Albert J. P. Theuwissen.

Since April 2011 she is a research assistant at the UC3M's RoboticsLab where she is working on the HANDLE project and more specifically on the Computer Vision aspects.

In her spare time, she enjoys painting, travelling and photography.

You can find more information on her personal profile at LinkedIn.