Curriculum Vitae

2016 - 2019 

Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering (Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision)

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea. 

Dissertation: Efficient Deep Learning Techniques for Recognition and Glocal Description of Plant Anomalies and Symptoms. (Available here)

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dong Sun Park. 

2014 - 2016

M. Eng. in Electronics Engineering (Computer Vision and Machine Learning)

Jeonbuk National University, Korea. 

Thesis: Efficient Motion Field Estimation in Dynamic Environments based on Warping Multilevel Optical Flow. (Available here)

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dong Sun Park. 

2004 - 2012

Engineer in Mechatronics

Tecnica del Norte University, Ecuador. 

Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Biodigester with an Automatic Control System to Generate Biogas. 2012. (Available here) 

Advisor: Eng. Miguel Jami

2009 - 2010 

Exchange Studies in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development

Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany. 

2021 

Executive Program in AI and Automation for the Enterprise

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

2019

Global Leader Experience

Common Purpose, UK

Leadership program at Jeonbuk National University, South Korea

2013

Education for Sustainable Development 

Postgraduate Institute, Tecnica del Norte University, Ecuador.

Joint Program with the University of Luneburg, Germany

2012

International Alumni DAAD Summer School

Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

Environmental Management Information Systems for Sustainable Development

2011

International Alumni DAAD Summer School

University of Kassel, Germany

Applied Solar Technology in Developing Countries

2007

DAAD Visiting Scholar

University of Luneburg, University of Gottingen, Germany

Renewable Energies and Sustainable Development

2022/09 -Present

Research Professor

Core Research Institute of Intelligent Robots (CRIFIR)

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea. 

2021/03 - Present

Lecturer

Graduate School, Department of Electronics Engineering

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2023/01 - Present

Fellow

Trustworthy AI Lab

Seoul National University, South Korea. 

2021/11 - 2022/08

Postdoctoral Researcher

Core Research Institute of Intelligent Robots (CRIFIR) 

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2020/11 - 2021/11

Postdoctoral Researcher

BK21 JIANT-IT Department of Electronics Engineering

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea. 

2020/09-10

Postdoctoral Researcher

Core Research Institute of Intelligent Robots (CRIFIR)

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2019/09 - 2020/08

Postdoctoral Researcher

BK21 HOPE-IT Department of Electronics Engineering

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2016/03 - 2019/08

Research Assistant (Ph.D. Student)

Multimedia Lab, Department of Electronics Engineering

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2014/03 - 2016/02

Research Assistant (Master Student)

Multimedia Lab, Department of Electronics Engineering

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.  

2012/08 - 2014/02

Lecturer - Researcher (Docente-Investigador)

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Mechatronics Engineering

Tecnica del Norte University, Ecuador.

2012 - 2014/02

Technical Support Engineer for Latin-America

DALE Digital (German - Ecuadorian Company)

Aerial Photogrammetry and Camera Vision, Ecuador.

2008 - 2013

Project Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft)

ENSU “Learning and Teaching Sustainability”- Project funded by DAAD-Germany in cooperation with the University of Luneburg, Germany. 

Tecnica del Norte University, Ecuador. 

2012

Research Assistant, RUNA Foundation, (United States NGO), Ecuador

(Currently: Aliados) https://www.losaliados.org/ 

2012

Research Assistant, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Ecuador 

CGIAR Research Center: https://www.cifor-icraf.org/ 

2012

Intern and Research Assistant, German Cooperation Agency in Ecuador (GIZ)

Program GESOREN

Jeonbuk National University, South Korea

From 2022/Spring - Present (2025/Spring)

Advanced Intelligent Programming (Instructor).

2021/Fall

Advanced Computer Vision (Co-Instructor).

2021/Spring

Pattern Recognition (Instructor).

2020/Fall

Parallel Computer Vision (Co-Instructor).

2019/Fall

Machine Learning (Assistant of Prof. Dong Sun Park).

Tecnica del Norte University, Ecuador

2012/08 ~ 2014/02

Mechatronics Engineering (Instructor).

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence 

Mechatronic Design 

Control Systems 

Electronics 

Programming Microcontrollers 

Manufacturing Processes 

2025/01 ~ Present

Business Intelligence, Master in Business Administration (Instructor).

NRF National Research Foundation of Korea (Principal Investigator) 2021 ~ 2024:

딥러닝을 이용한 다중 카테고리 데이터의 시공간 특성화 프로세스 기반 최적 계층적 작물 성장 모델 연구

Optimal crop growth model based on spatio-temporal characterization processes of multi-category data using deep learning architectures.

2021 - 2024

• Spatio-temporal characterization of crops using deep learning. Principal Investigator - NRF project 2021/24.

2021 - 2025

• Plant disease recognition based on deep learning techniques. (Researcher and Team leader).

• Study on optimal plant nutrition in hydroponic crops based on deep learning. (Researcher).

• Cattle action recognition and behavior understanding based on deep learning (Researcher and Team leader).

2021 (Completed)

• Deep learning-based face mask recognition (Researcher and PI).

2020 - 2023 (Completed)

• Deep learning-based Anti-nuclear Antibody Cells Recognition (medical images) with Chonnam National University Hospital (Researcher).

• Hierarchical cattle behavior recognition in video data (Researcher and Team leader).

2016 - 2019 (Completed)

• Tomato disease recognition based on deep learning (Researcher).

2018 (Completed)

• Deep Learning-based Person Identification for Robot Tracking in Unconstrained Environments (Researcher).

2016 -2018 (Completed)

• Deep Learning-based Pedestrian Detection and Tracking (Researcher).

• Deep Learning-based Human Pose Estimation (Researcher).

2014 - 2016 (Completed)

• Motion Field Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles (Researcher).

Honors

2020/09

• Postdoc Fellowship, JIANT-BK21, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2019/09

• DAAD Postdoc-Net Fellow, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany. Selected as one of the 25 participants out of 250 applicants.

2019/09

• Postdoc Fellowship, HOPE-IT BK21, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2016 - 2019

• Ph.D. Full Scholarship, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2014 - 2016

• Master’s degree Full Scholarship, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

2014

• Master’s degree Full Scholarship (Unclaimed), DAAD, Germany. MSc in Photogrammetry and Geo-informatics. Admitted – Awarded but unclaimed scholarship.

2012

• DAAD Scholarship (Summer School), University of Oldenburg, Germany. Topic: Environmental Management Information Systems for Sustainable Development. Selected among various applicants from developing countries.

2011

• DAAD Scholarship (Summer School), University of Kassel, Germany. Topic: Applied Solar Technology in Developing Countries. Selected among various applicants from developing countries.

2009 - 2010

• Full Scholarship for Exchange Semester, University of Luneburg, Germany.

2008

• DAAD Scholarship (Study trip) in Germany. One of the top ten students awarded an Academic Scholarship from the German Academic Institute (DAAD) and the Tecnica del Norte University, Ecuador.

2005 - 2008

• Tecnica del Norte University Scholarship, Undergraduate studies. Awarded to the best students based on the score performance.

Awards

2025/05

• Best paper award - Animals Journal. Awarded for the paper: "Multiview Monitoring of Individual Cattle Behavior Based on Action Recognition in Closed Barns Using Deep Learning," published in 2023. [Link to award announcement]

2022/10

• Best paper award, International Conference on Smartmedia 2022, Saipan, USA. Topic: Annotation Consistency Analysis for Plant Disease Detection.

2021/04

• Best paper award, KISM Spring Conference 2021, Busan, South Korea. Topic: Deep Learning-based plant leaf instance segmentation in spatio-temporal data.

2019/09

• Best Paper Award, ISITC 2019, Tianjin, China. Topic: Deep Learning-based Long-Term Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments for Real-time Embedded Applications.

2019/07

• Invited Researcher and Speaker, College of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China. Topic: Deep learning-based object detection and feature extractors.

2018/02

• Outstanding Graduate Student Award, BK21, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea. Recognition for the contributions to the principles of graduate research while pursuing the Doctoral Degree in Electronics and Information Engineering.

2018/05

• Best Paper Award, The Korea Contents Society, South Korea. Topic: Spatial Multilevel Optical Flow Architecture for Motion Estimation of Stationary Objects with Moving Camera.

2017/10

• Best Paper Award, ISITC 2017, Hebei, China. Topic: Understanding Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Small-Scale Objects Identification - A CNN-Based System for Whiteflies Identification in Tomato Plants.

2016/10

• Best Paper Award, ISITC 2016, Shanghai, China. Topic: Characteristics of Tomato Plant Diseases - A study for tomato plant disease identification.

2015/10

• Best Paper Award, ISITC 2015, Tianjin, China. Topic: Motion field estimation in dynamic environments based on Warping Multi-level Optical Flow.

• General Co-Chair, Third International Workshop on AI in Agriculture, Jeonbuk National University. Nov 21, 2024. 

• Program Committee Member, 19th International Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems FedCSIS 2024 (Thematic Track on AI for Agriculture), Belgrade, Serbia, Sept 8-11 2024.

• Acting Chair, Second International Workshop on AI in Agriculture, Jeonbuk National University. May 30-31, 2024. 

• Committee member, First International Workshop on Deep Learning and Intelligent Robots in Agriculture, organized by JBNU (South Korea) and Tianjin University (China). October 29, 2021. 

• Associate Editor. Frontiers in Plant Science. 

• Guest Editor. Collection on "AI-powered plant monitoring". BMZ Artificial Intelligence (Springer).

• Guest editor. Special issue "Advance AI Methods for Plant Disease and Pest Recognition". Frontiers in Plant Science.

• Guest editor. Special Issue "Tools and Techniques for Monitoring Pests and Diseases in Agro-Ecosystem". Agronomy MDPI. 

• Peer reviewer Frontiers. Frontiers in Plant Science.

• Peer reviewer MDPI. Sensors, Remote Sensing, Electronics, Applied Science.

• Peer reviewer ELSEVIER. Computer and Electronics in Agriculture, Biosystems.

• Peer reviewer IEEE. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.