The researcher from the Robotics research group, Dr. José Delpiano, has been awarded the “Promotion of International Collaboration 2024” fund, which aims to promote international alliances that allow the development of research carried out in Chile to be known and, in turn, support the participation of our country’s scientists in cutting-edge research being carried out in the world.

On this occasion, this funding will serve to execute the project “LENS: Light, eyes, and neural networks,” which will be carried out together with the national optics team formed by researchers from the Universidad de los Andes (UANDES), Nelly Cerpa, Jaime Anguita and Jaime Cisternas. The national artificial intelligence team consists of José Saavedra and José Delpiano, from UANDES, along with Fernando Huenupan, from UFRO. They will also collaborate with Professor Charles DiMarzio, a specialist in biomedical optics, from Northeastern University.

The purpose of this project is to provide a diagnosis of diseases that originate under the surface of the skin in a non-invasive way. “The early diagnosis of diseases of this type can currently require a cut to take a tissue sample. The creation of tests that do not require taking a sample would be a great advance,” said the researcher.

Currently, they are looking for “two people who want to do their master’s or doctorate in the project, and who would have the possibility to do part of their thesis research at the Optical Science Laboratory, of Professor DiMarzio, in Boston, Massachusetts,” concluded the researcher.