Bio

Edgar Guevara is currently a professor of biomedical engineering at UASLP. His work focuses on non-invasive optical neuroimaging —functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)— functional connectivity, and machine-learning–based biomedical diagnostics. His past research interests include Raman spectroscopy and infrared thermography. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) level 2 and has secured numerous national and international grants. Dr. Guevara serves on the Neurophotonics Editorial Board and belongs to SPIE, the Society for Neuroscience, and the Society for fNIRS. He has held the position of CONAHCYT research fellow at UASLP-CIACYT and associate Professor at Universidad de las Américas Puebla's Computing, Electronics, and Mechatronics Department, and his industrial experience includes working in the tire industry as a maintenance supervisor and projects engineer. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal in 2014, and his thesis earned a special mention from the jury. He holds an MSc degree from the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. He received a BS in Electronic Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de San Luis Potosí and earned the recognition as the top student in 2003. 

Edgar has an Erdös-Bacon number of 4 (Erdös) + 5 (Bacon) = 9. Full CV here.