Jose Espadero
Master Of VR Lab at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolJose Espadero is a seasoned VR and systems engineer with 12+ years leading the Supercomputation and Virtual Reality Lab at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where he administers Hidra, the university’s largest compute cluster, and heads Quimera, one of southern Europe’s largest reconfigurable CAVE systems. His work bridges low-level systems and immersive applications: he’s built the RLD dactylologic-to-speech translator, developed InsightMIST (an arthroscopy VR simulator now distributed commercially), and created coindesigner, an open environment for building VR apps with OpenInventor. A proficient C++ developer and active open-source contributor, he’s improved core geometry and mesh-processing libraries such as libigl and MeshLab, adding practical features like vertex color support and robustness fixes. He combines academic teaching experience with hands-on sysadmin skills and haptics/graphics expertise, uniquely positioning him at the intersection of high-performance compute, interactive simulation, and clinical VR applications.
12 years of coding experience
1998, Computer science, 1998, Computer science at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, French
Github Skills (22)
debug10
c-language10
eigen10
fileio10
geometry-processing10
3d10
file-processing10
file-handling10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
mesh-processing10
maintenance9
algorithm9
code-optimization9
debugging9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cnr-isti-vclab/meshlab
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
The open source mesh processing system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 21 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily contributed to bug fixes and code cleanups within the MeshLab project, focusing on improving the user interface and underlying mesh processing functionality. They addressed issues related to topology updates after face deletion, updated help messages in dialogs, and improved code readability. Further work involved fixing filters and enhancing the display of camera settings.
3d-modelsmeshmesh-generationmesh-simplification3d-reconstruction
libigl/libigl
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Simple MPL-2.0-licensed C++ geometry processing library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 16 PRs, 47 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jose contributed to the libigl C++ geometry processing library by implementing and modifying functions related to file I/O, specifically for reading and writing OFF files. They added support for color-per-vertex in the writeOFF function and extended the readOFF function to handle vertex colors. The user also refactored and optimized existing code, including the squared_edge_lengths and boundary_loop functions, and fixed a crash related to boundary loops. Additionally, the user addressed warnings and included necessary headers to ensure code compilation.
cppcluster-computingc-plus-plusgeometry-processingprocessing-library
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