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Marco Enrique Benalcázar Palacios - [Head]

Marco Enrique Benalcázar Palacios - [Head]

Marco E. Benalcázar received the degree of Ph.D. in Electronic Orientation Engineering at the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 2014. From September 2012 to February 2013, he did a research stay at the Genomic Signal Processing Laboratory at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. He is currently a full-time associate professor at the Department of Informatics and Computer Sciences at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador. His research interests are computational modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
  • ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0002-5275-7262
    • María Gabriela Pérez Hernández

    María Gabriela Pérez Hernández

    María G. Pérez obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Mathematical Modeling from the University Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, in 2012. She worked as associate professor in the Area of Intelligent Systems at the Computer Science and Informatics Department of Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador. She has over 10 years of experience in project on computer analysis and works as coordinator or participant in several research projects. Her research focuses on the Artificial Intelligence and vision area, in particular, computer methods for early diagnosis and classification of cancerous lesions. It has several projects Research Projects Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Digital Image, and numerous publications in journals with impact factor.
    José Francisco Lucio Naranjo

    José Francisco Lucio Naranjo

    José Lucio Naranjo received the degree of Ph.D. in Computational Modeling, at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. His research area is mainly under the Computational Modeling line, particularly in the investigation of numerical simulation techniques and computational intelligence applied to the modeling of acoustic propagation and to the generation of acoustic virtual reality.
  • ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0003-2578-1950
    • Josafá De Jesús Aguiar Pontes

    Josafá De Jesús Aguiar Pontes

    Josafá Aguiar Pontes received the degree of Ph.D. in Computer Science, at the Tokyo Institute Technology. His research area are artificial intelligence and machine learning.
    Monserrate Intriago Pazmiño

    Monserrate Intriago Pazmiño

    Monserrate Intriago Pazmiño is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics and Computer Science, at the National Polytechnic School. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Technical University of Madrid. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning and software quality.
  • ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0002-8390-3269
    • Henry Patricio Paz Arias

    Henry Patricio Paz Arias

    Henry Paz Arias is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science. His research area is under the line of Artificial Intelligence, particularly in Computer Vision. Artificial intelligence techniques for the improvement in the detection and classification of objects in real time, artificial neural networks and intelligent agents.
  • ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0002-1497-3642
    • Myriam Beatriz Hernández Álvarez

    Myriam Beatriz Hernández Álvarez

    Myriam Hernández Álvarez is PhD in Computer Applications from the University of Alicante, Spain. Her research areas are Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Security.
  • ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0003-4718-0400
    • Robin Gerardo Álvarez Rueda

    Robin Gerardo Álvarez Rueda

    Robin Álvarez Rueda is and Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, National Polytechnic University (www.epn.edu.ec), Quito-Ecuador. HIGHER EDUCATION: PhD in Telecommunication Engineering (2006) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Bioengineering and telemedicine group. Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of California, Berkeley (October 2013 – July 2015) Sponsor: Senescyt – Ecuador. His main research area is Digital signal processing applied to bioengineering.
    Andrés Fernando Cela Rosero

    Andrés Fernando Cela Rosero

    Andrés Cela Rosero

     

    COLLABORATORS

    Lorena Barona López

    Lorena Barona López

    Lorena Barona López received the degree of Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 2017. She was visiting researcher at Aveiro University and Altice Labs in Aveiro, Portugal. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, IoT, SDN/NFV, and Cybersecurity.
  • ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0002-5184-3759
    • Ángel Leonardo Valdivieso Caraguay

    Ángel Leonardo Valdivieso Caraguay

    Leonardo Valdivieso Caraguay received the degree of Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 2017. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, SDN/NFV and Information Security.
  • ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-020X
    • Andrés Gabriel Jaramillo Yánez

    Andrés Gabriel Jaramillo Yánez

    Andrés Jaramillo Yánez is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence. He is particularly interested in Few-Shot Learning, but also works in Signal Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Machine Learning. Currently, he is a staff member at RMIT University, Australia.
  • ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0001-7434-4533
    • Patricio Xavier Zambrano Rodríguez

    Patricio Xavier Zambrano Rodríguez

    Patricio Xavier Zambrano Rodríguez is a PhD candidate at Escuela Politécnica Nacional, in Quito, Ecuador. His research areas are Security and privacy, Social and professional topics.
    Adriana Uquillas Andrade

    Adriana Uquillas Andrade

    Adriana Uquillas Andrade has experience in Probability with emphasis on Special Stochastic Processes and Hydrodynamic Limit of particle systems, and with Statistics and Econometric in her twelve years of experience in Research and Development in the financial sector, where she carried out many research projects that were effectively transferred and adopted by different Multinational Banks. She was Research and Development Manager and Credit Risk Manager at Itaú Unibanco, and Senior Credit Risk Manager at HSBC Bank. Adriana actively cooperates with research group of the Institute of Energy and Environment of the University of São Paulo (IEE / USP) in problems related to the energy system. She is currently member of Integrative Ecology research group and full-time associate professor at the Department of Mathematics at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.

     

     

     

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