Name :
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar S.
Date of Birth :
April 23rd, 1968
Nationality :
Chilean
Passport (RUT) : 8.323.448-2
Address :
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Chile
Av. Tupper 2007, Casilla 412-3
6513027 Santiago, Chile
Tel. : +56-2-678
4207 / +56-2-678 4087
Fax : +56-2-6953881
Email :
j.ruizdelsolar@computer.org
Employment
Assistant
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad de Chile (March 1998 -
present).
Visiting
Researcher at the Department of Pattern Recognition, Fraunhofer-Institut IPK Berlin, Germany (April-August 1993; April
1994 - February 1998).
Professional
Apprenticeship at SERCO COMPUTERS (Viña del Mar, Chile) working on software and
hardware design in Macintosh environment (1991-1992).
Teaching,
Laboratory and Research Assistant at the Department of Physics and at the
Department of Electronics Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
(1987-1991).
Education
Doctor-Engineer
(1997). Technical University Berlin, Germany. Examination Note: Sehr
Gut (Very Good).
Training course in German at the
Goethe-Institut, Mannheim, Germany (Sept. 1993 – March 1994).
Specialist in Electronic Systems
Design (1993). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Spain.
Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering (1992). Universidad Técnica Federico Santa
María, Chile. Examination Note: 100%.
Electrical Engineer
(1991). Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile. Examination
Note: 100%.
Awards
Third place in the IEEE REGION 9
(Latin America) Student Paper
Competition (1993). Paper: "Performance Protocols CSMA/CD".
First place in the IEEE REGION 9
(Latin America) Student Paper
Competition (1992). Paper: "Digital Image Filtering".
Academic Award
"Aexa" (1991), for being the best graduating student of the
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Chile).
Academic Award "Federico Santa Maria y Carrera"
(1991), for being the best graduating Electrical Engineer of the Universidad
Técnica Federico Santa María (Chile).
"Academic
Excellence Award" (1990), for getting the highest grade point average
of all the students in fifth year at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa
María (Chile).
"Academic
Excellence Award" (1986), for getting the highest score in the
selection done by the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María for entering the
Engineering School.
"Maximun National
Score" in the S.A.T. (Scholastic Aptitude Test, P.A.A. in Chile) (1986),
in mathematics.
Grants and
Scholarships
DID Grant (Concurso de Ayudas de Viaje) (May
2000). Grant awarded by DID (Departamento
de Investigación y Desarrollo, Universidad de Chile) to assist to the
conference AFFS ‘2000, Tsukuba,
Japan.
Fundación
Andes Fellowship
(Programa Estadías de Investigación en el Extranjero) (January -March 1999). Fellowship
awarded to make a research visit at the Fraunhofer-Institut IPK Berlin,
Germany.
DID Grant (Concurso de Ayudas de Viaje) (January
1999). Grant awarded by DID (Departamento
de Investigación y Desarrollo, Universidad de Chile) to assist to the
conference CIMCA ´99, Vienna,
Austria.
Fundación
Andes Grant (Programa
Asistencia Eventos Internacionales) (September 1998). Grant awarded to
assist to the conference NC '98
Vienna, Austria.
DID Grant (Concurso de Ayudas de Viaje) (May
1998). Grant awarded by DID (Departamento
de Investigación y Desarrollo, Universidad de Chile) to assist to the
conference WCCI '98 Anchorage, USA.
Fundación Andes Fellowship
(Programa de Inserción de Científicos Chilenos) (March 1998 – March 1999). Fellowship
awarded to develop the project “Visual Inspection of Textured Surfaces”.
FUZZ-IEEE'97
Student Support (1997). Grant awarded by the IEEE to assist to the
conference FUZZ-IEEE'97 Barcelona,
Spain.
HCM Grant
(Human Capital and Mobility Program) (1995). Grant awarded by the European
Community to assist to the conference IWANN
'95 Malaga, Spain.
DAAD Fellowship
(Sept. 1993 - Sept. 1997). Fellowship awarded by the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) to pursue Doctoral
studies at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
ICI Fellowship (Jan.
1993 - April 1993). Fellowship awarded by the ICI (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, Spain) to study at
the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. Course: "Design of
Electronic Systems".
CONICYT Fellowship (1992). Fellowship awarded
by CONICYT (Chile) to pursue Master
degree studies in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Técnica Federico
Santa María (Chile).
Federico Santa Maria y Carrera
(1991). Fellowship awarded by the Universidad Técnica Federico
Santa María (Chile) to pursue Master degree studies in Electrical Engineering.
Research
interests
Biometric Systems, Face Recognition, Application of
Soft-Computing technologies to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
problems, Texture Analysis, Retrieval and Synthesis, Robotics and Autonomous
Systems.
Other Relevant
Information
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Grenoble Institute of Technology, France (TIMA Laboratory; July 1999)
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Fraunhofer-Institut IPK Berlin, Germany (Department of Pattern
Recognition; July 1998, Sept. 1998, Jan.-March 1999, July 1999, May 2000,
August 2000, Jan.-Feb. 2001, June 2001, Sept. 2001, Jan.-Feb. 2002).
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Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (Facultad de Ciencias; May 1996)
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Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (Departamento de
Ingeniería Electrónica; May 1996)
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Universität Heidelberg, Germany (Interdisziplinäres
Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen; May 1997)
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Universidad de La República, Uruguay (Facultad de Ingeniería; August
1997)
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Universidad Católica de Bolivia, Bolivia (Facultad de Ciencias;
November 1998)
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Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Perú (Departamento de
Ingeniería Electrónica; August 1999)
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Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile (Chilean
German Kickoff Workshop; Sept. 1999).
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Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (Departamento de
Ingeniería Informática; October 1999)
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Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (Facultad de Ciencias; April 2000)
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Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú (Departamento de
Ingeniería Electrónica; August 2000)
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Fraunhofer-Institut FIRST Berlin, Germany (Chilean
German Kickoff Workshop; February 2001).
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Fraunhofer-Institut IPK Berlin, Germany (Department of
Pattern Recognition; February 2001).
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Archivo Nacional, Santiago, Chile (Programa Explora CONICYT, September
2001).
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Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago, Chile (Programa Explora CONICYT, Octubre
2001).
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Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile (Departamento de Ingeniería
Eléctrica, Noviembre 2001).
Technical Reviewer/Referee:
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Pattern
Recognition Letters (Special Issue on Neural
Networks for Computer Vision Applications, 1996).
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Int.
Workshop on Neural Networks for Identification, Control, Robotics &
Signal/Image Processing - NICROSP '96.
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VIII
Congreso Latinoameriacano de Control Automático – CLCA ’98.
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XIII
Congreso Chileno de Ing. Eléctrica (1999).
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XIV
Congreso Chileno Control Automático (2000).
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XIV
Congreso Chileno de Ing. Eléctrica (2001).
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Contribuciones
Científicas y Tecnológicas (Revista de la Universidad
de Santiago de Chile, 2000).
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Programa
FONDECYT (CONICYT Chile; 1998-2002)
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DID (Universidad
de Chile, Chile, 2001).
Sessions, Workshops & Conferences:
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Primera
Conf. Int. de Computación Avanzada - ICX '89
(Nov. 1989, Viña del Mar, Chile). Organizing
Committee.
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Segunda
Conf. Int. de Computación Avanzada - ICX '91
(Nov. 1991, Viña del Mar, Chile). Organizing
Committee.
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IV Seminar of
Power Electronics (Oct. 1992, Viña del Mar, Chile). Organizing Committee.
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Session: Signal/Image
Processing and Computer Vision III, in IEEE
Int. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems - FUZZ-IEEE 98 (May 4-9 1998, Anchorage, USA). Chair.
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Session
G2: Object
Recognition, in Symposium on Neural
Computation NC 98 (Sept. 23-25 1998,
Vienna, Austria). Chair.
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Session 3B: Image
and Signal Processing, in VIII CLCA
98 (Nov. 9-13, Viña
del Mar, Chile). Chair.
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Fourth ITU-T
SG-16 Meeting (May 1999, Santiago, Chile). Organizing Committee.
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Bio-Inspired
Neural Image Processing Session, in ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation - NC 2000 (May 23-26 2000,
Berlin, Germany). Organizing Chair.
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6th
Online Word Conference on Softcomputing in Industrial Applications - WCS6
(Sept. 2001, Word Wide Web). International
Co-chair.
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Int. Workshop on
Hybrid Intelligent Systems – HIS 2001, (Dec. 11-12
2001, Adelaide, Australia). Theme Chair.
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Soft-Biometrics:
Soft-Computing Technologies for Biometric Applications, in 5th Asian Fuzzy Systems Symposium – AFFS
2002 (Feb. 3-6 2002, Calcutta, India). Organizing
Chair.
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2002 WSEAS Int.
Conf. on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation - ISPRA 2002, (June 12-16 2002, Cadiz,
Spain). Program Committee.
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7th
Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications - WSC7, (Sept. 2002, Word Wide Web). Program Committee.
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Int. Workshop on
Hybrid Intelligent Systems - HIS 2002, (Dec. 1-4 2002,
Santiago, Chile). Chairman.
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World Automation
Congress – WAC 2004, (2004, Spain). Program
Committee.
Languages:
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Fluent in English, German and Spanish.
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Basic knowledge of Italian.
Societies:
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Member of the IEEE since 1988.
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Member of the Consultants Pool of the ECVNet (European
Computer Vision Network) since 1996.