Electronic Engineer
The Phd José Amado is currently Associate Professor of Higher Education at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia (IFBA), Vitória da Conquista Campus and Associate Researcher at the Catholic University of San Pablo (UCSP - Peru). Tutor of the IEEE-RAS Student Chapter, Coordinator of the Innovation and Research Group in Automation and Robotics (GIPAR) and Coordinator of the Institute of Science, Innovation and Technology of the State of Bahia (INCITE - Industry 4.0) of IFBA, Vitória da Conquista. He has experience in the area of Innovation, entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on Industrial Automation, Robotics and Industry 4.0, working mainly in the following lines of research: Autonomous Navigation Systems for mobile robotics, Social Robotics, Robotic Perception Systems, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Haptic Systems, Artificial Intelligence applied to control, Industry 4.0, Industrial Electronics.
Engineer in Computer Systems
Iván García-Santillán is an Engineer in Computer Systems., Master in Computer Management, and Doctor (Ph.D.) in Computer Engineering from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Currently, he is a Professor of the Software Program at the Universidad Técnica del Norte (Ibarra-Ecuador). He has worked in some universities in the country in undergraduate and graduate programs. He has directed several engineering, master's and doctoral degree projects. He has published 3 books and more than 30 scientific articles in high-impact international journals (quartiles Q1 - Q4). He is a reviewer of articles in international journals and has been general coordinator at some scientific conferences. His areas of interest are: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Science.