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Control and Automation

Héctor Ramírez

Research Line:
Control and Automation

Research Areas:
– Port-Hamiltonian systems.
– Nonlinear control.
– Control of distributed parameter systems.

Education:

Ph.D. in Automatic Control, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Francia, (2012)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, (2012)
Master in Electrical Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, (2008)
Ingeniero Electrónico, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, (2006)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
hector.ramireze@usm.cl
Personal website:
http://sites.google.com/site/hramirezestay/

Alejandro Rojas

Research Line:
Control and Automation

Research Areas:
– Fundamental and performance limitations
– Control over networks
– Process control
– System biology

Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Control Theory), University of Newcastle, Australia (2006)
Master in Electrical Engineering (Control Theory), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2001)
Electronics Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (1998)

Institution: Universidad de Concepción

Email:
arojasn@udec.cl

Ronny Vallejos

Research Line:
Control and Automation

Áreas de Investigación:
– Spatial Statistics
– Robust Modelling.
– Statistical Image Modellling.
– Time Series

Education:

Ph. D. in Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA (2006)
Master of Science in Statistics, University of Connecticut, USA (2002)
M. Sc. in Mathematics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (1998)
B. Sc. in Mathematics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (1995)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
ronny.vallejos@usm.cl

Personal website:
http://rvallejos.mat.utfsm.cl/

Luciano Ahumada

Research Line:
Control and Automation

Research Areas:
– Channel modeling
– Propagation
– Telecommunication Systems

Education:

Doctor in Electronics, Major in Computer Systems and Telecommunications, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2005)
Electronic Engineering, major in Telecommunications, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Chile (2003)

Institution: Universidad Diego Portales

Email:
luciano.ahumada@mail.udp.cl

Juan Carlos Agüero

Research Line:
Control and Automation

Research Areas:
– System Identification with application to Control, Communications and Power Electronics
– Control Theory
– Statistical Signal Processing

Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Australia (2005)
Master of Engineering with a major in Automatic Control, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2000)
Electronics Engineering Degree (6-year degree), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2000)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
juan.aguero@usm.cl

Personal website:
http://www.sysid-cps.org/jca/Short_Biography.html

Investigators

Renewable Energy and Power Conversion

Samir Kouro – Subdirector

Research Line:
Renewable Energy and Power Conversion

Research Areas:

– Power converters
– Variable-speed drives
– Renewable energy power conversion systems (wind and photovoltaic)

Education:

Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Chile (2008)
M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Chile (2004)
Electronics Engineer, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Chile (2002)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
samir.kouro@usm.cl

Personal website:
http:////www2.elo.utfsm.cl/~skr/Samir_Home_Page/Home.html

Marcelo Pérez

Research Line:
Renewable Energy and Power Conversion

Research Areas:

– Power Electronics
– Multilevel Converters

Education:

Doctor in Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile (2006)
Master in Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile (2003)
Electronics Engineering, Universidad de Concepción, Concepcion, Chile (2001)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
marcelo.perez@usm.cl

Personal website:
http://profesores.elo.utfsm.cl/~mzanartu/

José Rodríguez

Research Line:
Renewable Energy and Power Conversion

Research Areas:
– Electrical Engineering
– Power Electronics and electrical drives
– Energy conversión
– Education in engineering

Education:

Doktor Ingenieur, Electrotecnic Specialty, Erlangen University, Germany (1985)
Master in Electrical Engineering, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile (1977)
Electrical Engineer, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile (1977)
Technical Electrician, Escuela Técnico Profesional José Miguel Carrera, Chile (1970)

Institution: Universidad Andrés Bello

Email:
jose.rodriguez@usm.cl

Roberto Cárdenas

Research Line:
Renewable Energy and Power Conversion

Research Areas:
– Machine control
– Digital control using DSPs processors
– Non-conventional energy

Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham (1996)
Msc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham (1992)
Bsc in Electrical Engineering, University of Magallanes (1988)

Institution: Universidad de Chile

Email:
rcd@ieee.org

Personal website:
https://sites.google.com/site/robertocardenasdobson/home

Christian Rojas

Research Line:
Renewable Energy and Power Conversion

Research Areas:
– Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Systems
– Digital Control of Power Converters
– Energy Storage Systems
– Variable-Speed Drives

Education:

Doctor in Electronic´s Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2013)
Electronics Engineering, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (2009)
Bachelor in Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (2007)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
christian.rojas@usm.cl

Sebastián Rivera

Research Line:
Renewable Energy and Power Conversion

Research Areas:
– Electric vehicles
– Multi-level converters
– Renewable energy conversion systems
– High efficiency dc-dc conversión

Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada (2015)
M. Sc. en Ingeniería Electrónica, , Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) (2011)
Ingeniero Civil Electrónico, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, UTFSM (2011)

Institution: Universidad de Los Andes

Email:
sri@miuandes.cl

Hugues Renaudineau

Research Line:
Renewable Energy and Power Conversion

Research Areas:
– Green hydrogen
– Partial power converters
– Energy storage systems
– Electric vehicles
– Charging stations
– Photovoltaic structures

Education:

Doctorado en Ingeniería Eléctrica, University of Lorraine, Nancy, Francia (2010-2013)
Maestría en ingeniería, École Nationale Supérieure d’Électricité et de Mécanique (ENSEM), Nancy, Francia (2007 – 2009)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
hugues.renaudineau@usm.cl

Investigators

Robotics

Fernando Auat Cheein

Research Line:
Robotics

Research Areas:

– Mobile Robots
– Estimation Theory
– Computational Intelligence
– Control Systems
– Robotics and Probabilistic Robotics
– Planning and Path Planning
– Assistance Robotics and Technology
– SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)

Education:

Doctor in Control System Engineering, National University of San Juan, Argentina (2009)
Master in Control System Engineering, National University of San Juan, Argentina (2005)
Electronics Engineer Degree, National University of Tucumán, Argentina (2002)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
fernando.auat@usm.cl

Personal website:
http://profesores.elo.utfsm.cl/~fauat/

Marcos Orchad

Research Line:
Robotics

Research Areas:
– Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis in Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
– Estimación de Estado en Sistemas Dinámicos no Gaussianos
– Sistemas automatizados de manejo de contingencias (Sistemas de Control Reconfigurable)

Education:

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2007)
Master of Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2005)
Industrial Engineer, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile (2001)
Bachelor in Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile (2000)

Institution: Universidad de Chile

Email:
morchard@ing.uchile.cl
Personal website:
http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~morchard/

Miguel Torres

Research Line:
Robotics

Research Areas:
– Dynamical Systems and Robotics: Analysis, modeling and control of strongly nonlinear systems.
– Computer Vision/Image Processing: 3D stereoscopic reconstruction, depth estimation, image dewarping, panospheric vision, synthetic aperture radar imagery segmentation.
– Signal processing, systems identification, neural networks, data fusion for target tracking.
– Motion control, actuators, sensors, perception, task planning and learning for industrial and field robots.

Education:

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Systems and Control), McGill University, Centre for Intelligent Machines, Canada (2003)
M. Sc. Eng. Industrial-Electrical Engineering (Automation and Signal Processing), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (1998)
B. Sc. Eng. Industrial-Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (1996)

Institution: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Email:
mtorrest@ing.puc.cl
Personal website:
http://www.ing.puc.cl/~mtorrest

José Delpiano

Research Line:
Robotics

Research Areas:
– Computational Vision: Analysis of movement, especially obtaining and analysis of optical flow.
– Analysis of Bioimages: Particularly of light and electron microscopy.

Education:

Doctor en Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Chile, Chile (2013)
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (2003)

Institution: Universidad de Los Andes

Email:
jfd@uandes.cl

Personal website:
https://sites.google.com/site/biomedicalimageanalysis/

Marcelo Soto

Research Line:
Robotics

Research Areas:
– Optical fibre sensors (distributed and point sensors).
– Optical pulse coding techniques.
– Non-linear fibre optics.
– Optical signal processing.
– Fibre-optic amplification systems.

Education:

Ph.D. in Innovative Technologies of ICT Engineering, major in Telecommunications – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, Italy
M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering – UTFSM, Chile
B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering – UTFSM, Chile

Institution: Universidad de Los Andes

Email:
marcelo.sotoh@usm.cl

Personal website:
https://scholar.google.cl/citations?user=_6PE3GsAAAAJ&hl=en

Investigators

Biomedical Systems

Matías Zañartu - Director

Research Line:
Biomedical Systems

Research Areas:

– Digital Speech Signal Processing
– Biomedical Acoustics
– Speech/Acoustic/Biomedical Signal Modeling
– Acoustic Biosensors

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA (2010)
Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA (2006)
Professional Title (C.E.), Acoustical Engineering, Universidad Vicente Perez Rosales, Chile (1999)
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Acoustical Engineering, Universidad Vicente Perez Rosales, Chile (1996)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
matias.zanartu@usm.cl

Personal website:
http://profesores.elo.utfsm.cl/~mzanartu/

Paul Delano

Research Line:
Biomedical Systems

Research Areas:

– Auditory Efferent System and Attention.
– Aging, Cognition and Auditory system.
– Closing the loop in cochlear implants.
– Brain and ear activity in hearing loss and tinnitus patients

Education:

Otorrinolaringólogo, Universidad de Chile, Chile, 2010
Doctor en Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile, Chile, 2006
Médico-Cirujano, Universidad de Chile, Chile, 2000

Institution: Universidad de Chile

Email:
pdelano@med.uchile.cl

Pamela Guevara

Research Line:
Biomedical Systems

Research Areas:

– Medical image analysis
– Study of brain structural connectivity
– Scientific visualization
– High performance computing
– Healthcare software development

Education:

Doctor en Física, Escuela Doctoral de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la Información, de Telecomunicaciones y de Sistemas (STITS), Université Paris-Sud, Francia (2011)
Máster en Información, Sistemas y Tecnología (IST), especialidad en Imágenes Médicas, Université Paris-Sud, Francia (2007)
Ingeniero Civil Electrónico, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (2001)

Institution: Universidad de Concepción

Email:
pamela.guevara@biomedica.udec.cl

Personal website:
http://pamelaguevara.icb.udec.cl/

Alejandro Weinstein

Research Line:
Biomedical Systems

Research Areas:
– Biomedical signal processing
– Bioinstrumentation
– Data Mining
– Embedded Systems

Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA (2013)
Electronics Engineering, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile (2000)

Institution: Universidad de Valparaíso

Email:
alejandro.weinstein@uv.cl

Personal website:
http://www.ocam.cl

Patricio Orio

Research Line:
Biomedical Systems

Research Areas:
– Biophysically-inspired models of neural excitability, applied to sensory systems.
– Numerical simulations and analysis of oscilatory neuron models.
– Effects of stochastic ion channel behavior on neural dynamics.

Education:

Doctor in Sciences, Major in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, Universidad de Chile, Chile (2004)
Biochemistry, Universidad de Chile, Chile (2000)
Degree in Biochemistry, Universidad de Chile, Chile (1997)

Institution: Universidad de Valparaíso

Email:
patricio.orio@uv.cl
Personal website:
http://www.cinv.cl/porio

Wael El-Deredy

Research Line:
Biomedical Systems

Research Areas:
– Brain Dynamics.
– Bayesian Brain
– Brain oscillations
– Brain-Computer Interface
– EEG; fMRI

Education:

PhD Neurocomputing, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK (1998)
MSc Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing),Imperial College, UK (1993)
BSc Electrical Engineering (Communication & Electronics), Ain Shams University, Egypt (1988)

Institution: Universidad de Valparaíso

Email:
wael.el-deredy@uv.cl
Personal website:
https://braindynamicslab.org/

Investigators

Electrical Systems

Pablo Lezana

Research Line:
Electrical Systems

Research Areas:

– Power converters: Topologies and control
– Fault detection and post-fault operation in power converters
– Modern digital devices (DSPs and FPGAs)

Education:

Doctor in Electronics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Chile (2006)
M.Cs. en Ingeniería Electrónica, UTFSM, Valparaíso, Chile (2005)
Electronic Engineer, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Chile (2005)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
pablo.lezana@usm.cl

Margarita Norambuena

Research Line:
Electrical Systems

Research Areas:

– Microgrids
– Power converters
– Model predictive control
– Energy storage

Education:

Doktorin der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Technische Universitae Berlin, Alemania (2017)
Ph.D en Ingeniería Electrónica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2017)
Máster en Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2014)
Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2014)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
margarita.norambuena@usm.cl

Esteban Gil

Research Line:
Electrical Systems

Research Areas:
– Probabilistic methods applied to power systems.
– Power systems optimization (operations and planning).
– Renewable energy integration.

Education:

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, USA (2007)
M.Sc., Statistics, Iowa State University, USA (2006)
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2001)
B.Sc., Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (1997)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
esteban.gil@usm.cl
Personal website:
https://sites.google.com/site/estebangil/

Alejandro Angulo

Research Line:
Electrical Systems

Research Areas:
– Integer programming.
– Small scale optimization applied to the control of power converters.
– Large scale optimization applied to electrical power systems operation and planning.
– Analysis and design of electromagnetic and electromechanical devices.

Education:

Ph.D. en Sistemas de Ingeniería, Universidad de Chile, Chile, 2015
M.S.en Ciencias de la Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile, 2007
B.S. Ingeniero Civil Electricista , Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile, 2004

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
alejandro.angulo@usm.cl

Investigators

Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Jorge Silva

Research Line:
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Áreas de Investigación:

– Theory applied to learning and decisión.
– Compressible models for information sources.
– Sparse representations and compressed sensing.
– Universal source coding.
– Information measures estimation.
– Detection and estimation.
– Astrometry and photometry.
– Inverse problems in geosciences

Education:

(PhDEE) Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA (2008)
(MSEE) Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA (2005)
Engineer degree in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile (2002)
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile (1999)

Institution: Universidad de Chile

Email:
josilva@ing.uchile.cl

Personal website:
https://jorgesil77.github.io

Mauricio Araya

Research Line:
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Research Areas:

– Astronomical Data Acquisition and Pipeline Systems.
– Distributed High-level Telescope Control Systems.
– Computational Intelligence for Scientific Data Processing.
– Markov Decision Processes.

Education:

PhD en Informática, INRIA-Université de Lorraine, Francia (2013)
Magister en Ciencias de la Ingeniería Informática, UTFSM, Chile (2008)
Ingeniero Civil Informático, UTFSM, Chile (2008)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
mauricio.araya@usm.cl

Personal website:
https://www.inf.utfsm.cl/~maray

Ioannis Vourkas

Research Line:
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Research Areas:
– Memristor, Memristive Devices and Systems.
– Resistive Switching Devices and ReRAM.
– Unconventional and Neuromorphic Computing.
– Cellular Automata and Applications.

Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Grecia (2014)
Diploma (M.Eng.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Grecia (2008)

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
ioannis.vourkas@usm.cl

Personal website:
http://www.electronica.usm.cl/personas/ya-somos-parte/academicos/ficha/ioannis-vourkas/

Sandra Céspedes

Research Line:
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Research Areas:
– Redes inalámbricas y móviles.
– Sistemas de comunicación vehiculares.
– Diseño y adaptación de protocolos para Internet de las cosas.
– Sistemas ciber-físicos.

Educación:

Doctora en Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidad de Waterloo, Canadá (2012)
Especialista en Gestión de Informática Organizacional, Universidad Icesi, Colombia (2003)
Ingeniero Telemático, Universidad Icesi, Colombia (2003)

Institución: Universidad de Chile

Email:
scespedes@niclabs.cl
Personal website:
http://winetgroup.die.cl

Felipe Tobar

Research Line:
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Research Areas:
– Machine Learning.
– Statistics.
– Signal Processing.

Education:

PhD in Signal Processing, Imperial College London, 2014
MSc in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, 2010
Electrical Engineer, Universidad de Chile, 2010

Institution: Universidad de Chile

Email:
ftobar@dim.uchile.cl
Personal website:
https://www.dim.uchile.cl/~ftobar/

María José Escobar

Research Line:
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Research Areas:
– Computational Neuroscience.
– Image and Video Analysis.
– Biological Vision.

Education:

Docteur en Sciences: Automatique et Traitement de Signals et des Images, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.
MSc in Electronic Engineering Sciences, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.

Civil Electronic Engineer, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.

Institution: UTFSM

Email:
mariajose.escobar@usm.cl
Personal website:

Marcelo Pérez

Linea de Investigación: Energías Renovables y Conversión de Potencia

Áreas de Investigación:

– Procesamiento digital de señales – Electrónica de Potencia – Convertidores Multinivel

Educación:

Doctor in Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile (2006) Master in Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile (2003) Electronics Engineering, Universidad de Concepción, Concepcion, Chile (2001)

Institución: UTFSM

Email: marcelo.perez@usm.cl

Personal website: http://profesores.elo.utfsm.cl/~mzanartu/

Fernando Auat Cheein

Linea de Investigación: Robótica

Áreas de Investigación:

– Robots Móviles – Teoría de Estimación – Inteligencia Computacional – Sistemas de Control – Robótica y Probabilístico de – Robótica – Planning and Path Planning – Asistencia Robótica y Tecnológica – SLAM (Localización y Cartografía Simultánea)

Educación:

Doctor in Control System Engineering, National University of San Juan, Argentina (2009) Master in Control System Engineering, National University of San Juan, Argentina (2005) Electronics Engineer Degree, National University of Tucumán, Argentina (2002)

Institución: UTFSM

Email: fernando.auat@usm.cl

Personal website: http://profesores.elo.utfsm.cl/~fauat/

Margarita Norambuena

Linea de Investigación: Sistemas Eléctricos

Áreas de Investigación:

– Microgrids – Convertidores de Potencia – Modelo de Control Predictivo – Almacenamiento de Energía

Educación:

Doktorin der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Technische Universitae Berlin, Alemania (2017) Ph.D en Ingeniería Electrónica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2017) Máster en Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2014) Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (2014)

Institución: UTFSM

Email: margarita.norambuena@usm.cl

Juan Yuz

Linea de Investigación: Control y Automatización

Áreas de Investigación:

– Sistemas de Control – Identificación y Modelado – Muestreo de Sistemas

Educación:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia (2006) M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile (2001)

Institución: UTFSM

Email: juan.yuz@usm.cl

Personal website: http://profesores.elo.utfsm.cl/~jyuz/Personal.html