Iván García-Santillán
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Personal information:
Computer Systems Engineer, Ph.D.
email: idgarcia@utn.edu.ec
Associate professor at the Universidad Técnica del Norte (Ecuador).
ORCID: 0000-0001-6404-5185
Research interests:
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Data Mining
Big Data
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Data Science.
Achievements
Merits
Doctor degree (Ph.D.) from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) with the qualification of Outstanding mention “Cum Laude”, June 12, 2017.
Best graduate (master's degrees) from PUCE-SI, May 2010.
Best graduate of the XVII promotion from Higher Technical Institute "17 de Julio", 2006.
Awards
Awardee in the first call of the Hub-North (Senescyt) for the allocation of competitive funds in innovation and/or technological development projects. Title: Driver assistance system for detection and alertness of drowsiness and distractions. Ibarra-Ecuador, February 10, 2020.
Extraordinary Doctorate Award in the Faculty of Informatics from Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), 2018. https://informatica.ucm.es/premio-extraordinario-de-doctorado
First place as Tutor in the "I Technological Marathon Young Innovators UTN 2018". Category “Best innovative idea”. Topic: Detection of student dropout patterns using data mining techniques. Ibarra, July 6, 2018.
Fellowships
Summer course fellow: São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Learning from Data. Organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) from July 29 to August 9, 2019. https://sites.usp.br/datascience/spsas-learning-from-data/
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