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AC3E director Matías Zañartu participates in Scientific Culture Fridays event at Fonck Museum

On July 22, Matías Zañartu, who is the director of and a researcher at the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E), participated in the Scientific Culture Fridays event, which, organized by Explora, takes place periodically at the Fonck Museum and is open to the public. This cycle of presentations aims to bring the […]

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AC3E project selected to participate in international microchip design competition

Researchers and students from the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) were selected to participate in international microchip design competition SSCS Chipathon 2022, thanks to their project “Three-Level Flying Capacitor DC-DC Buck Converter for High-Efficiency Energy Power Sources in CubeSat Applications.” This competition comprises a program of the IEEE SSCS chapter that encourages […]

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AC3E researcher appointed associate editor of the prestigious IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

Dr. Samir Kouro, deputy director of and senior researcher at the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (AC3E), was appointed associate editor of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, which is among the publications with the highest impact factor in the area of electrical and electronics engineering, dedicated to the dissemination of emerging technologies and […]

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AC3E researchers win IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine’s Best Paper award

Researchers from the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (AC3E) won the Best Paper 2022 award by IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine for their work entitled “Charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: from grid to battery.” The six-member team was led by Sebastián Rivera, AC3E researcher and academic at Universidad de Los Andes’ Faculty of Engineering […]

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New researchers arrive at AC3E to strengthen the Control and Artificial Intelligence lines

On June 1, PhD researcher Cristopher Ley and postdoctoral researchers María Coronel and Sandy Bolufé joined the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering to carry out first level research with societal impact. Dr. Ley is a mechatronics engineer from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Universidad de […]

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AC3E researcher leads community project on water monitoring and management

Chile has suffered a years-long water crisis that affects both the productive sector and human consumption. The lack of water caused by the scarcity of rainfall, climate change, among other factors, has changed our relationship with this resource, even to the point of considering rationing in populated areas such as the Metropolitan Region. In this […]

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AC3E researcher is the only Chilean to win award from renowned Power Electronics journal

For the second time, Dr. Christian A. Rojas, researcher at the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (AC3E) and associate professor at the Department of Electronics, received the recognition “Outstanding Reviewer Award 2021,” delivered by journal IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL). The recognition has been given since 2013 and Dr. Rojas has been […]

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AC3E researcher’s book seeks to encourage curiosity in data science

Researcher Dr. Felipe Tobar of the Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E), who is also an academic at Universidad de Chile, published a book entitled “A look at the era of data” with the University Publishing House. The book was co-written with Jocelyn Dunstan and Alejandro Maass, from Universidad de Chile’s Department of […]

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AC3E resumes traditional Internal Seminar in face-to-face format

On March 31 and April 1, AC3E’s 2022 Internal Seminar was held, for the first time in year in face-to-face format, which was suspended due to the pandemic. Among the Center’s most important strategic activities, it brings together all members to confront the challenges in their fields. Researchers and staff analyzed the Center’s work in […]

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Dr. María José Escobar returns to AC3E

The former government representative (Seremi) of Science for central Chile, María José Escobar, rejoined the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María as associate researcher, focused on the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis research line. Dr. Escobar left her AC3E position in November 2019 to become the first […]