Full Professor · UCLM · AIR Group
Artificial intelligence and extended reality for rehabilitation and telemedicine, with hospitals and companies.
David Vallejo is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Technologies and Systems of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), based at the Escuela Superior de Informática in Ciudad Real. He co-leads the Artificial Intelligence and Rendering (AIR) research group, where he develops artificial intelligence and extended reality for health, mainly physical rehabilitation and telemedicine, with the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos in Toledo as clinical partner.
He is principal investigator of Smart-RehabAR (2026-2030), a project coordinated with the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos and funded by the Spanish State Research Agency, which uses augmented reality for upper limb rehabilitation after spinal cord injury. He also leads a regional project on mixed reality over 5G networks for remote diagnosis in primary care. His earlier work covered multi-agent systems, intelligent surveillance and multi-robot coordination. He has published more than 40 articles in JCR journals, and the Spanish National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI) has recognised three research periods (2007-2012, 2013-2018 and 2019-2024) and one technology transfer period (2007-2017).
He is co-founder of Furious Koalas S.L., a UCLM spin-off recognised by its Governing Council in 2016 that works on gamification, extended reality and applied artificial intelligence. With the company he has received the «Mónico Sánchez» award for consolidated entrepreneurship from the UCLM Social Council (2024), the Young Company of the Year award from ITACA (2022) and first prize in Open Innovation Castilla-La Mancha, solving an augmented reality challenge set by Cojali. The group has also registered RehabiliTEA and VRZoco as software, two results of its health and e-commerce projects.
He has taught since 2007, in Spanish and English, courses on Programming, Operating Systems, Computer Graphics and Video Game Development, and coordinates Concurrent and Real-Time Programming. He holds three recognised teaching periods (2007-2022). He has supervised or is supervising 4 PhD theses and 49 student projects (14 master's theses, 30 bachelor's theses and 5 final degree projects), and is co-author of 8 textbooks.
He was coordinator of the Master's Degree in Computer Engineering (2015-2016) and academic director of the UCLM General Secretariat (2016-2021), responsible for academic software, ICT tools, computer equipment for teaching staff and the corporate website. He holds a European PhD in Computer Engineering from UCLM (2010, sobresaliente cum laude) and in 2006 received the Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award of the Escuela Superior de Informática and the UCLM award for the best final degree project.
Indra and Fundación Universia have awarded LaborIA, an AIR group project led by Santiago Sánchez-Sobrino with the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos in Toledo and its foundation. It will develop artificial intelligence agents that run locally so that people with motor impairments can handle email, documents and the web browser by voice or with small gestures.
At the Hospital General de Valdepeñas, I presented our work on artificial intelligence and mixed reality for primary care to the SESCAM Integrated Care Management, including the MRP-5G teleconsultation and the PRE-CONFIA assistant, to look for joint lines of work.
Sergio Martínez Cid defended his thesis on artificial intelligence to support physiotherapy for patients with neurological diseases, which I co-supervised with Santiago Sánchez-Sobrino. Grade: Excellent.
UCLM has awarded the AIR group two technology transfer grants: PRE-CONFIA, a local and traceable artificial intelligence assistant to prepare medical consultations, and TELE-CONFIA, to bring the processing of MRP-5G teleconsultation sessions to market.
Our national project coordinated with the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos in Toledo starts, on upper limb rehabilitation with augmented reality, sensorised objects and artificial intelligence (2026-2030).
University of Castilla-La Mancha Escuela Superior de Informática
Furious Koalas S.L.
University of Castilla-La Mancha Escuela Superior de Informática
University of Castilla-La Mancha Escuela Superior de Informática
University of Castilla-La Mancha Escuela Superior de Informática
University of Castilla-La Mancha Escuela Superior de Informática
PhD in Computer Engineering
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Master's in Advanced Computer Technologies
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Castilla-La Mancha
