José Carlos Castillo holds an M.Sc. degree in Advanced Computer Technologies (2008) and a PhD degree in Computer Science (2012) from Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain.  From 2006 to 2012, he worked at the natural and artificial Interaction Systems (n&aIS) group at the Albacete Research Institute of Informatics, Spain, focusing on computer vision techniques to detect human activities and frameworks for intelligent monitoring and activity interpretation. From October 2012 to September 2013, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), where he focused on networked robot systems, robotics and computer vision and intelligent control systems. In September 2013 he moved to the RoboticsLab of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he is an Associate Professor working on social robotics and computer vision techniques for Human-Robot Interaction.