Santi Montiel 🧙🏻‍♂️

Ph.D. Student in Camera–RADAR Fusion for Autonomous DrivingRobeSafe Research Group · University of Alcalá

I'm Santi Montiel, a PhD student at the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. Currently focused on crafting Camera-RADAR fusion Deep Learning models as part of my research.

With a former background in Industrial Engineering and Robotics, I decided to pursue a PhD in the intersection of Autonomous Driving and Deep Learning, entitled Deep Learning based on Camera-RADAR Fusion for Perception in Autonomous Driving, under the supervision of Prof. Luis M. Bergasa and Dr. Ángel Llamazares, at the RobeSafe Research Group of University of Alcalá. I carried out a research internship at the Intelligent Vehicles Lab of Delft University of Technology, under the supervision of Dr. Holger Caesar.

Some more about me:

  • 🤖Former team member of UAH Robotics Team, speaker at ROSCon Spain.
  • 🤝Always open to research collaborations! Feel free to get in touch with ideas.
  • 🎾Outside research and coding, I enjoy video games, running, and pádel.

📩Contact: santiago.montiel@uah.es

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📰 News

Oct 2026
Giving a talk at ROSCon ES 2026 in Valencia! I will present the state of RoboRacer (scaled autonomous racing) at the University of Alcalá.
Sep 2026
Attended the ELLIS Summer School on Autonomous Driving (SSAD) 2026 in Barcelona, four intensive days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions on perception, world models and end-to-end driving.
Sep 2026
🏆 TokenGraph3D wins the Best Paper Runner-Up Award in the Archival Track of the DriveX Workshop at ECCV 2026 in Malmö!
Aug 2026
Attended the Fundamentos de IA Summer School at Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, hosted in my hometown, Baeza. A great week on generative models and AI applications in health, computer vision and language, completed with the top grade (10/10).
Aug 2026
🏆 TokenGraph3D accepted as an oral at the DriveX Workshop at ECCV 2026! Joint work with TU Delft on emergent 3D instance segmentation from self-supervised Point Transformers.
Jun 2026
Taught at the iRoboCity2030 Summer School on ROS 2, AI and Field Robotics in Madrid, giving a lecture on ROS 2 for scaled autonomous racing cars.
Mar 2026
🏆 TerraSeg accepted at CVPR 2026! Honored to participate in the development of the first self-supervised, domain-agnostic model for LiDAR ground segmentation.
Jan 2026
🏆 GaussianCaR accepted at ICRA 2026! Looking forward to presenting our work on Camera-Radar fusion using Gaussian Splatting in Vienna.
Nov 2025
Gave a talk at ROSCon ES 2025 in Barcelona! Great to be back at the conference and spread the word about DINO models in robotics.
Sep 2025
Participated at European Researchers' Night 2025 representing RobeSafe, where we hosted a twofold demonstration: a virtual simulation in the CARLA simulator and a live real-vehicle demo operating fully autonomously.
Mar 2025
Started an internship at the Intelligent Vehicles Lab at TU Delft, under the supervision of Dr. Holger Caesar.
Feb 2024
New journal paper accepted at Sensors MDPI! Check it out in the Research section below.
Nov 2023
Started my Ph.D. at the RobeSafe Research Group of University of Alcalá, under the supervision of Prof. Luis M. Bergasa and Dr. Angel Llamazares.
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📊 Research

A selection of my publications. For a full, up-to-date list, see the publications page or Google Scholar.

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🗣️ Talks

Invited talks and podcast appearances. See also the full talks page.

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📝 Teaching

Courses I have taught as a Teaching Assistant as part of my Ph.D. programme, supervised by Prof. Luis M. Bergasa.

TitleLevelQuarters
iRoboCity2030 Summer School 2026: ROS 2, AI and Field RoboticsSummer SchoolJune 2026
Perception SystemsM.Sc.Q2 24-25 / Q2 25-26
Computer Vision / Computer Vision SystemsB.Sc.Q2 23-24 / Q1 24-25 / Q1-Q2 25-26
Introduction to Autonomous Vehicles with CARLA SimulatorWorkshopSummer 2023
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🎓 Advising

Academic works I have co-supervised jointly with Prof. Luis M. Bergasa, guiding the students through their research projects.

NameLevelYear
Fernando Villa CastellB.Sc.2025-26
Esteban Gómez GarcíaB.Sc.2024-25
Fabio Sánchez GarcíaM.Sc.2023-24