Odreman Ferrer is a Systems Engineer and PhD candidate in Network and Information Technologies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), affiliated with the AIWELL research group. His professional background in technology, together with his studies in innovation, data science and artificial intelligence, has led him to explore new questions about the relationship between people and intelligent systems.

His research interests lie in multimodal artificial intelligence and affective computing, with a particular focus on interpreting emotional cues in conversation. He is interested in investigating how verbal, vocal and visual information can reveal potential emotional incongruities, and how conversational context can help interpret them.