Dr. Alba Perez Gracia is an Affiliate Faculty at Idaho State University and an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. She is also working at Remy Robotics SL, a company devoted to make robotics technology a part of the restaurant industry. 
Alba earned her BS in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, and her MS and PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.