Hello, there! I'm Santi Montiel 🧙🏻‍♂️

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 ofUniversity of Alcalá. I carried out a research internship at the Intelligent Vehicles Lab ofDelft 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

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.

📊 Research

Here is a selection of my publications. For a full list, please check Google Scholar. See also the full publications page.

🗣️ Talks

See also the full talks page.

📝 Teaching

I have taught the following courses as part of the curriculum of my Ph.D. program as Teaching Assistant, 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

I have acted as co-supervisor of the following academic works jointly with Prof. Luis M. Bergasa, guiding the students in their research projects:

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