Head of the Group
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He earned his BSc in Electronic Engineering (2008), MSc in Industrial Automation (2010) and PhD in Engineering (2013) from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. While completing his doctorate, he interned at KU Leuven (2012). Then he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Université Catholique de Louvain (2013–2014). Between 2015 and 2020, he combined roles as researcher and professor across Colombia and Ecuador, before joining deeplearning.ai as Consultant and Curriculum Author (2020–2022). He also worked as an Assistant Professor at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (2020–2025). Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at Yachay Tech University. He works as Invited Researcher with ECOTEC University. As well, he works as an Invited Lecturer and an External Researcher at Corporación Universitaria Autónoma de Nariño. He is the founder and lead of the Smart Data Analysis Systems (SDAS) Research Group. He is a partner and project controls manager at CENDECYT. He has served as a conference organizer, keynote speaker and guest editor for journals. His research spans medical, biological and educational data analysis, with a theoretical focus on spectral and kernel‑based methods for exploratory analysis and representation.
Research Interests
Applied mathematics, data clustering, dimensionality reduction, data visualization, unsupervised analysis and kernel methods, time-varying data analysis, biosignals, electromedical science.