Researcher · Engineer · Lecturer

Sergio Cabrero Barros

Head of Interactive Media Technologies @ Vicomtech
Telecommunication Engineer, PhD, now working at the intersection of immersive media, AI, and human experience.

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Feb 2026
AMPLIFY New
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Volumetric recording at Gran Teatre del Liceu — reimagining the opera experience.
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Dec 2025
BAZKARIA
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Eating together through immersive telepresence — a dinner at Mugaritz like no other.
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Oct 2024
VHOLO Best Paper · Web3D
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Volumetric video delivered natively on the web.
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Apr 2021
TRACTION
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Does opera still matter? Co-creation and participation in the arts (H2020).
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Feb 2018
Smart Textiles Go Clubbing
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RCA Talk — wearable sensing and smart textiles for festival environments.

For over twenty years, curiosity and exploration have brought me all over Europe, moving between academia, industry, and the edges of both — from the University to CWI Amsterdam, IBM Research Dublin, and now leading Interactive Media Technologies line at Vicomtech.

2023 →
Head of Interactive Media Technologies
Vicomtech, Donostia-San Sebastián
2020 – 2023
Senior Researcher
Vicomtech, Donostia-San Sebastián
2018 – 2020
Research Scientist
IBM Research, Dublin
2014 – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher
CWI – Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam
2015
PhD, Computer Science Department
Universidad de Oviedo, Xixón-Gijón
2007 – 2014
Researcher & Teaching Assistant
Universidad de Oviedo, Xixón-Gijón
2008
Telecommunication Engineering
Universidad de Oviedo, Xixón-Gijón
2006-2007
Master Thesis International Student
Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo
2004 – 2006
Research Assistant
Universidad de Oviedo, Xixón-Gijón
2026
  • Paper "A web-ready and 5G-ready volumetric video streaming platform: a platform prototype and empirical study," is already published in IEEE ACCESS.
  • Glad to be one of the Programme Chairs in ACM IMX 2026 that will take place in Athlone, Ireland in June 2026.
  • Excited to be Assistant to Sponsor Chair in ACM CHI 2026 that will take place in Barcelona in April 2026.
  • Talk Honored to give an invited lecture for the second consecutive year in the Programa de Creatividad de Mugaritz at the Madrid Culinary Campus.