Lorenzo J. Tardón received the degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Valladolid, Spain, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1999. In 1999, he worked for ISDEFE on air traffic control systems at Madrid-Barajas Airport and Lucent Microelectronics on systems management. Since November 1999, he has been with the Department of Communications Engineering, University of Málaga (UMA), Spain. He is currently a Professor at UMA, where he is also the Head of the Application of Information and Communications Technologies (ATIC) Research Group. He was a main researcher of different projects on audio and music analysis. He is a member of several international journal committees on communications and signal processing. His research interests include serious games, audio signal processing, digital image processing, applied artificial intelligence, and sound and music relations to EEG. In 2011, he was awarded the Premio Málaga de Investigación by the Academies Bellas Artes de San Telmo and Malague na de Ciencias.