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

 

Research visits:

-         Grenoble Institute of Technology, France (TIMA Laboratory; July 1999)

-         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).

 

Invited speaker:

-         Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (Facultad de Ciencias; May 1996)

-         Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica; May 1996)

-         Universität Heidelberg, Germany (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen; May 1997)

-         Universidad de La República, Uruguay (Facultad de Ingeniería; August 1997)

-         Universidad Católica de Bolivia, Bolivia (Facultad de Ciencias; November 1998)

-         Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Perú (Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica; August 1999)

-         Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile (Chilean German Kickoff Workshop; Sept. 1999).

-         Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (Departamento de Ingeniería Informática; October 1999)

-         Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (Facultad de Ciencias; April 2000)

-         Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú (Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica; August 2000)

-         Fraunhofer-Institut FIRST Berlin, Germany (Chilean German Kickoff Workshop; February 2001).

-         Fraunhofer-Institut IPK Berlin, Germany (Department of Pattern Recognition; February 2001).

-         Archivo Nacional, Santiago, Chile (Programa Explora CONICYT, September 2001).

-         Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago, Chile (Programa Explora CONICYT, Octubre 2001).

-         Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile (Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Noviembre 2001).

 

Technical Reviewer/Referee:

-         Pattern Recognition Letters (Special Issue on Neural Networks for Computer Vision Applications, 1996).

-         Int. Workshop on Neural Networks for Identification, Control, Robotics & Signal/Image Processing - NICROSP '96.

-         VIII Congreso Latinoameriacano de Control Automático – CLCA ’98.

-         XIII Congreso Chileno de Ing. Eléctrica (1999).

-         XIV Congreso Chileno Control Automático (2000).

-         XIV Congreso Chileno de Ing. Eléctrica (2001).

-         Contribuciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (Revista de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 2000).

-         Programa FONDECYT (CONICYT Chile; 1998-2002)

-         DID (Universidad de Chile, Chile, 2001).

 

Sessions, Workshops & Conferences:

-         Primera Conf. Int. de Computación Avanzada - ICX '89 (Nov. 1989, Viña del Mar, Chile). Organizing Committee.

-         Segunda Conf. Int. de Computación Avanzada - ICX '91 (Nov. 1991, Viña del Mar, Chile). Organizing Committee.

-         IV Seminar of Power Electronics (Oct. 1992, Viña del Mar, Chile). Organizing Committee.

-         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.

-         Session G2: Object Recognition, in Symposium on Neural Computation NC 98 (Sept. 23-25 1998, Vienna, Austria). Chair.

-         Session 3B: Image and Signal Processing, in VIII CLCA 98 (Nov. 9-13, Viña del Mar, Chile). Chair.

-         Fourth ITU-T SG-16 Meeting (May 1999, Santiago, Chile). Organizing Committee.

-         Bio-Inspired Neural Image Processing Session, in ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation - NC 2000 (May 23-26 2000, Berlin, Germany). Organizing Chair.

-         6th Online Word Conference on Softcomputing in Industrial Applications - WCS6 (Sept. 2001, Word Wide Web). International Co-chair.

-         Int. Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems – HIS 2001, (Dec. 11-12 2001, Adelaide, Australia). Theme Chair.

-         Soft-Biometrics: Soft-Computing Technologies for Biometric Applications, in 5th Asian Fuzzy Systems Symposium – AFFS 2002 (Feb. 3-6 2002, Calcutta, India). Organizing Chair.

-         2002 WSEAS Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation - ISPRA 2002, (June 12-16 2002, Cadiz, Spain). Program Committee.

-         7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications - WSC7, (Sept. 2002, Word Wide Web). Program Committee.

-         Int. Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems - HIS 2002, (Dec. 1-4 2002, Santiago, Chile). Chairman.

-         World Automation Congress – WAC 2004, (2004, Spain). Program Committee.

 

Languages:

-         Fluent in English, German and Spanish.

-         Basic knowledge of Italian.

 

Societies:

-         Member of the IEEE since 1988.

-          Member of the Consultants Pool of the ECVNet (European Computer Vision Network) since 1996.