2022 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON)

Mario Pacas (SM IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1978 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1996, he worked for BBC/ABB in Switzerland and Germany in different R&D and management positions with a very wide experience in international projects. In the ABB organization he was responsible for the development of servo drives and later Product Responsible Manager. Since 1996, he has been a Member of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany, where he was also the Head of the Chair for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives and dean of the faculty. Dr. Pacas is presently Vice President for Global Relations of the Power Electronics Society in IEEE responsible for the area of education. He is now Senior Professor at the Chair for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives in the department of Electrical engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen, Germany and an independent consultant in the area of power electronics, electrical drives and automation.

In 1981 he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electromechanical Engineering from the University of Panama and in 1983 a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, TX. During his career he has participated in numerous conferences, technical activities, seminars, and courses.
Engineer Tejera has extensive experience in the design of power systems, operation, and maintenance, including generation, transmission, and distribution. Electrical and Mechanical Engineer with a proven track record of success in managing large-scale electromechanical engineering projects, power system planning, electrical power system performance analysis, project management, budgeting, contracting, and preparing and reviewing technical specifications and consultancy.
He worked on the Panama Canal from 1991 to 2021, holding various technical positions such as electrical design engineer, electrical engineer in charge of protection of generation, transmission and distribution systems, and system project management in the Energy Division. From 2010 to 2021, he held the position of Manager of the High Voltage Section of the Energy Division, responsible for directing all high voltage equipment maintenance activities in the Panama Canal power system facilities. From 2007-2010, he held the position of Manager of the Low Voltage Section responsible for all maintenance operations of the low voltage facilities of the Panama Canal, including Instruments Laboratory and Motor Repair Workshop.
Prior to the Panama Canal, he worked for 12 years at the local electric utility company in Panama, where he was Manager of the Transmission and Distribution Planning Section responsible for preparing expansion plans for the transmission and distribution systems of the Republic of Panama.
He has provided consulting and design services for transmission, distribution and generation projects, industrial, residential and commercial facilities, and has also worked as a part-time professor at the Technological University of Panama.
He has presented papers at technical conferences in Latin America and the United States that have been published in technical journals and conference reports. Currently, he works as a reviewer of technical papers for international conferences, awards, and publications, is a PES Distinguished Lecturer, and Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish version of the IEEE PES Power & Energy magazine.
He has been a member of the IEEE since 1979 and an Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) since 2015. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has held volunteer positions at the local, regional and global levels, including 2010-2011 where he served as Director of the Division VII on the IEEE Board of Directors representing the Power and Energy Society and from 2017 to 2019 as Governor on the IEEE-HKN Board of Governors representing Region 7 (Canada), Region 8 (Europe and Africa), Region 9 (Latin America) and 10 (Asia and Oceania) and currently Director of Region 9 for the 2022-2023 period.

Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Palermo. Director of the LABSAT IoT Project. Electronic Engineer (UBA). He has participated in conferences and published various papers in the areas of Neural Networks, VLSI, Performance in IP Networks, and Voice over IP. His research includes Neural Networks in VLSI (UBA), Exponential Calculus (UP), Measurement of Demand and Capacity in IP Networks (UP), Electromagnetic Wave Incidence Angle Detector (UBA).

Leonardo Regoli completed his bachelor degree in electronics engineering at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. After working for three years as a research and development engineer at a private company in Caracas, he completed his M.Sc. studies in space science and technology at the Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg in Germany and the Luleå Tekniska Universitet in Sweden. After finishing his studies, he worked as a research assistant in the field of computer vision applied to the detection of non-collaborative objects in space. Following that, he completed his PhD studies at the University College London in the UK and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, studying the interaction of Titan with the Saturnian magnetosphere. After a 3-year postdoc at the University of Michigan studying the interaction of Mars with the solar wind, he joined the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, where he actually works as a researcher studying different aspects of magnetospheric interactions with the solar wind, as well as in the development and calibration of particles (electrostatic analyzers and energetic neutral atom cameras) and fields (magnetometers) instruments.

Miguel San Martin was born the 6 th of January of 1959 in his family farm in Villa Regina, Río Negro and he grew up in Bs. As. After finishing his school studies at the Industrial Pío Nono High School, he went to the USA to carry on with his studies and to fulfill his dreams of contributing with the NASA space exploration. He graduated with summa cum laude honors from Syracuse University with the degree of Electronic Engineer and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Master in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering. He was recruited at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory which specializes in the robotic planetary exploration where he has been working for 37 years. His field is the Guidance, Navigation and Control
of interplanetary spacecraft. Early in his career he participated in the Magallanes mission to Venus and Cassini to Saturn. Later, he was designated chief Engineer of the system of Guidance, Navigation and Control of the Pathfinder Mission which
landed on the surface of Mars the Sojourner the first robotic mobile vehicle in the red planet. After that he had the same post in the mission to Mars which resulted with the landing of the Spirit and Opportunity robotic vehicles. He later worked as Chief Engineer of the system of Guidance, Navigation and Control which controlled the Curiosity during the successful landing in Mars on the 5 th of August of 2012. Nowadays, Miguel San Martin is the chief engineer of the section of the JPL Guidance, Navigation and Control and he contributes in various missions of the JPL and in the development of advanced techniques of landing in planetary corps. For his contributions in the space exploration Miguel San Martin was awarded Fellow of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2013 and member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA in 2019. He is has been married with Susan for 38 years and he has two daughters Samantha 35 years old and Madeleine of 29.

Technician and engineer in electronics received at FIUBA. In 1995 he was selected along with 10 other engineers from all over the country to be trained in Europe in space systems to integrate the operations engineering group of the first Argentine GEO satellite: the Nahuel 1A. He actively participated in the development of the Arsat 1 and 2 and currently leads the Arsat guidance, navigation and control group. His work includes orbital dynamics, avionics, software, launchers and propulsion.

Entrepreneur for 20 years. With experience and knowledge of the engineering world in the management of industrial assets. Provides the direction of Products and Services for Industry 4.0 in LATAM.

Electrical Engineer, with a degree in Electrical Power Systems and later in Electromechanical Constructions. He has an International Postgraduate Degree in Electricity Markets and Natural Gas and is a Professor with a teaching degree to pursue a career at all levels of teaching. He is a University Professor from 1998 to date, in the chairs of Energy Market and Final Project of several National Universities. He Academic and professional researcher in the sector since 1999, to date. He worked in various multinationals in the electricity generation and manufacturing sector, in the country and abroad, as well as in various energy consulting firms. He managed and directed commercial technical teams throughout his career. He is an independent consultant for different entities in the energy sector, speaking and publishing technological and regulatory content of interest to the sector. He is Operational Director of ItresE for the American continent.

Anselmo Frizera-Neto holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (2006) from the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES, Brazil) and a PhD (2010) in Electronics from the University of Alcalá (UAH, Spain). Between 2006 and 2010, he worked as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Bioengineering Group at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain). Since 2010, he has held a permanent position as a Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at UFES. He acted as the Adjunct Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering for two terms. From 2014 to 2018, he served as a Member of the Board of Asociación Iberoamericana de Tecnologías de Apoyo a la Discapacidad (AITADIS), contributing to support the dissemination of knowledge in the area of assistive technologies in countries of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Currently, he is the Coordinator of the Brazilian Research Group on Brain and Cognitive Engineering (BRAEN), a multidisciplinary group of experts in Engineering, Medicine and Psychology that aim at modeling and studying the human brain. In his career as a researcher, Prof. Frizera-Neto has published more than 300 scientific articles, of which more than 140 are publications in international scientific journals. He worked in the training of masters and doctors in institutions in Brazil, Argentina, Italy, and Portugal. He has experience in Electronics, Photonics and Biomedical Engineering. His research interests and areas of expertise are rehabilitation robotics for assisting cognitive and motor impairments, development of optical and electronic sensors for human-machine interfaces, biomedical signal processing and smart textiles.

Ricardo Reis has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil (1978). He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Microelectronics option, from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France (1983). He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier in 2016. He is a professor at the Informatics Institute of UFRGS. His main research topics include physical chip design automation, design methodologies, and designs for low-power and fault-tolerant systems. He has more than 750 publications, including books, magazines and conference proceedings. He was vice president of the IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) and also president of the Brazilian Society of Informatics (two terms) and vice president of the Brazilian Society of Microelectronics. He is a senior member of IEEE CASS and received the “2015 IEEE CASS Meririous Service Award” 2015. He was Vice President of IEEE CASS for two terms (2008/2011). He is the founder of the Rio CASS Chapter
Grande do Sul, which won the CASS Award for World Chapter of the Year 2011, 2012, 2018 and 2022, and R9 Chapter of the Year in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020. One of the founders of several conferences such as SBCCI and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Coordinator of several conferences such as IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was president of the Steering Committee of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC. He is Vice President of IFIP WG10.5 and was President of IFIP TC10. He was also the founder of EMicro. In 2002, he received the Researcher of the Year Award from the State of Rio Grande do Sul. He is a founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Society of Computing) and also a founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Society of Microelectronics). He was a member of the CASS DLP Program (2014/2015), and has given more than 80 invited talks at international conferences. He is a member of IEEE CASS BoG and IEEE CEDA BoG. Member of the IEEE IoT Initiative Coordinating Committee. Coordinator of the CASS IoT SiG. Reis received the IFIP Fellow Award in 2021 and the ACM/ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.

Manuel Delgado-Restituto received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Physics (Honors) from the University of Seville, Spain, in 1996. Since then, he has been working with the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville (IMSE-Univ. of Sevilla) where he currently heads a research group on low-power medical microelectronics and works in the design of silicon and optoelectronic microsystems for understanding biological neural systems, the development of neural prostheses and brain-machine interfaces, the implementation of wireless body area network transceivers and the realization of RFID transponders with biomedical sensing capabilities.
Manuel served as an Associate Editor for different IEEE Publications (TCAS-I, TCAS-II and TBioCAS) and as Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE JOURNAL on EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (JETCAS). He also served as Vice President for Publications and President-Elect of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and now isserving as President of this Society. He has also served (or is serving) in the Organizing Committee of different international conferences, including his role as General Co-Chair for ISCAS 2020 and as Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS 2022.

Victor Grimblatt has an engineering diploma in microelectronics from Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG – France) and an electronic engineering diploma from Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile).  He got a PhD on Electronics University of Bordeaux.. He is currently R&D Group Director and General Manager of Synopsys Chile, leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He opened the Synopsys Chile R&D Center in 2006. He has expertise and knowledge in
business and technology and understands very well the trends of the electronic industry; therefore he is often consulted for new technological business development. He has published several papers in IoT, EDA and embedded systems development, and since 2007 he has been invited to several Latin American Conferences (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) to talk about Circuit Design, EDA, IoT, and Embedded Systems. From 2006 to 2008 he was member of the “Chilean Offshoring Committee” organized by the Minister of Economy of Chile.  In 2010 he was awarded as “Innovator of the Year in Services Export”. He is also member of several Technical Program Committees on Circuit Design and Embedded Systems. Since 2012 he is chair of the IEEE Chilean chapter of the CASS. He was President of the Chilean Electronic and Electrical Industry Association (AIE) from 2017 to 2021. Since 2021 he is member of the IEEE CASS Board of Governors (CAS BoG). He is the chair of the IEEE CAS Special Interest Group on Electronics for Agrifood. Victor Grimblatt was professor of Electronics and IC Design in Universidad de Chile and Universidad de los Andes. He is currently lecturing a course IoT for Agriculture at Universidad Santo Tomas and a course on Digital IC Design at Universidad de la Friontera, Chile. Victor’s research areas are EDA (Electronic Design Automation), and Smart Agriculture applying Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and IoT.

Josep M. Jornet is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, director of the Ultrabroadband Nanonetworking Laboratory (UN Lab), and a member of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the SMART Center at Northeastern University. He obtained a degree in telecommunications engineering and a master’s degree in information and communication sciences from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, in Barcelona, ​​Spain, in 2008. He obtained a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. , in 2013. His areas of interest include terahertz communications, nano-bio communications networks, and the Internet of Nano-Things. In these fields, he has published more than 180 articles, one book, and also holds four patents. All of these accumulate more than 12,000 citations (h-index of 50). He is the director of multiple projects at the US National Science Foundation, the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the US Air Force Research Laboratory. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Nano Communication Networks and an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is on the steering committee for the IEEE International Workshop on Terahertz Communications (this year alongside ICC 2022 and Globecom 2022), and also on the ACM NanoCom conference series. He has received multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, multiple conference paper awards, and other awards from the IEEE, ACM, Georgia Tech, UB, and Northeastern University. He is a Senior Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society.

Dr. Wen Tong is the CTO, Huawei Wireless. He is the head of Huawei wireless research. In 2011, Dr. Tong was appointed the Head of Communications Technologies Labs of Huawei, currently, he is the Huawei 5G chief scientist and leads Huawei’s 10-year-long 5G wireless technologies research and development. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Dr. Tong was the Nortel Fellow and head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research in 1995 in Canada. Dr. Tong is the industry recognized leader in invention of advanced wireless technologies, he is the key contributor to 3GPP since its inception. Dr. Tong was elected as a Huawei Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He was the recipient of IEEE Communications Society Industry Innovation Award for “the leadership and contributions in development of 3G and 4G wireless systems” in 2014, and IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Industry Leader Award for “pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the mobile communications industry and innovation in 5G mobile communications technology” in 2018. He is also the recipient of R.A. Fessenden Medal. For the past three decades, he had pioneered fundamental technologies from 1G to 6G wireless and Wi-Fi with more than 520 awarded US patents. Dr. Tong is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, and he serves as Board of Director of Wi-Fi Alliance. He is the committee member for “IEEE Fellow Committee” and “The IEEE Corporate Innovation Award”.

Santiago Segarra received the B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering with highest honors (Valedictorian) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Argentina, in 2011, the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Penn in 2016. From September 2016 to June 2018 he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since July 2018, Dr. Segarra is a W. M. Rice Trustee Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. His research interests include network theory, data analysis, machine learning, and graph signal processing. Dr. Segarra received the ITBA’s 2011 Best Undergraduate Thesis Award in Industrial Engineering, the 2011 Outstanding Graduate Award granted by the National Academy of Engineering of Argentina, the 2017 Penn’s Joseph and Rosaline Wolf Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Electrical and Systems Engineering, the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2021 Rice’s School of Engineering Research + Teaching Excellence Award, and five best conference paper awards.

Dr. Luis Kun is the 2022 IEEE President Elect for the Society for Social Implications of Technology and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of National Security (CHDS/NDU). Born in Montevideo, he graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy in Uruguay and holds a BSEE, MSEE, and PhD degree in BME, all from UCLA. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, a Fellow of the
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine. He is the founding Editor in Chief of Springer’s Journal of Health and Technology 2010-2020. He spent 14 years at IBM and was the Director of Medical Systems
Technology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. As Senior IT Advisor to AHCPR, he formulated the IT vision and was the lead staff for High Performance Computers and Communications program and Telehealth. In July 1997, he was an invited speaker to the White House and was largely responsible for the first Telemedicine Homecare Legislation signed by President Clinton in August 1997. As a Distinguished Fellow at the CDC and an Acting Chief IT Officer for the National Immunization Program, he formulated their IT vision on 10/2000. Dr. Kun received many awards including: AIMBE’s first-ever Fellow Advocate Award in 2009; IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award with a citation, “For exemplary contributions in the inception and implementation of a health care IT vision in the US.” In 2009, he was named “Profesor Honoris Causa” by Favaloro University, (Argentina) and in 2013 “Distinguished Visitor” by the City of Puebla, Mexico. He served as an IEEE Distinguished Visitor for the CS and as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and SSIT where he chairs the DL Program since 2016. Since 2014, he serves as an Honorary Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at the School of Engineering of the University in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received in 2016 the Medal of Merit from Mexico’s National Unit of Engineering
Associations and was named Visiting Professor by the National Technological University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2017.

James M. Keller received the Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1978. He is now the Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri. Jim is an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. His research interests center on computational intelligence: fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, neural networks, and evolutionary computation with a focus on problems in computer vision, pattern recognition, and information fusion including bioinformatics, spatial reasoning in robotics, geospatial intelligence, sensor and information analysis in technology for eldercare, and landmine detection. His industrial and government funding sources include the Electronics and Space Corporation, Union Electric, Geo-Centers, National Science Foundation, the Administration on Aging, The National Institutes of Health, NASA/JSC, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, the Leonard Wood Institute, and the Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate. Professor Keller has coauthored over 500 technical publications.

Santiago Segarra received the B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering with highest honors (Valedictorian) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Argentina, in 2011, the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Penn in 2016. From September 2016 to June 2018 he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since July 2018, Dr. Segarra is a W. M. Rice Trustee Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. His research interests include network theory, data analysis, machine learning, and graph signal processing. Dr. Segarra received the ITBA’s 2011 Best Undergraduate Thesis Award in Industrial Engineering, the 2011 Outstanding Graduate Award granted by the National Academy of Engineering of Argentina, the 2017 Penn’s Joseph and Rosaline Wolf Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Electrical and Systems Engineering, the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2021 Rice’s School of Engineering Research + Teaching Excellence Award, and five best conference paper awards.

Ricardo G. Sanfelice is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA, USA. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2004 and 2007, respectively, from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During 2007 and 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and visited the Centre Automatique et Systemes at the Ecole de Mines de Paris for four months. Prof. Sanfelice is the recipient of the 2013 SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize, the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Air Force Young Investigator Research Award, the 2010 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, the 2012 STAR Higher Education Award for his contributions to STEM education, and the 2020 ACM Test-of-Time Award from the HSCC. He is Associate Editor for Automatica, a Fellow of the IEEE, and has served as Chair of the Hybrid Systems Technical Committee from the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is Director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center at UCSC and Director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) Aviation Initiative. His research interests are in modeling, stability, robust control, observer design, and simulation of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to robotics, power systems, aerospace, and biology.

Partner of the Cybersecurity, Technological Governance and Digital Risk Advisory Services practice of BDO in Argentina, in the area of ​​Computer Process Assurance with 30 years of experience in the area of ​​management and implementation of Information Security Governance, IT Governance , Compliance and IT Audit in Argentina and Latin America, and advice for compliance with National and International Laws and Regulations in top-tier companies in different business areas.

Professor of the University Diploma in Accounting Tech of the BIG DATA AND CLOUD SERVICES module at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), Professor of module 27001 of the Diplomas in “IT Governance, Efficient Use of Frameworks” and “Government and Management of IT Services” of the Buenos Aires Technological Institute (ITBA), Professor of the IT Audit Module of the Diploma in Computer Crimes for EDI at the National University of Río Negro and Professor of IT Management Systems, Information Security and IT Audit for TÜV Rheinland.

International speaker and columnist on topics related to technological governance, information security, cybersecurity, data protection regulations and legislation, business continuity, etc.

Member of the Steering Committee and President of the Education Commission of the ISACA Buenos Aires Chapter, Member of the Latin American Privacy Association, Member of the Argentine Association of Ethics and Compliance, Member of the Academic Committee of the “Cyber ​​Security for Critical Assets LATAM” for Qatalys Global Critical Infrastructure section, Member of the Scientific Committee of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Doctor from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC – Spain). Electromechanical Engineer from Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNICEN – Argentina). Labor Engineer from Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Regional Pacheco (UTN – Argentina). Specialist in the Teaching of Experimental Sciences. Former Director of the Technological Institute of Higher Education. Full-time Professor and Researcher at UNICEN’s Faculty of Engineering. Director of the PICTO-GENDER Project called "Good Practices for the mainstreaming of the gender perspective in public policies, with an impact on engineering training" in a jointed network of the Faculties of Engineering run by UNICEN, Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM), Universidad Fraternidad de Agrupaciones Santo Tomás de Aquino (FASTA), and Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI). Co-founder of the ‘Women in Engineering Group’ (MIFIO) at UNICEN. Referent Member of the Faculty of Engineering of UNICEN in the Commission of Women, Gender and Diversity of the Federal Council of Deans of Engineering (CONFEDI). Coordinator of the Research Committee for the ‘Matilda and Women in Engineering Latin American Open Cathedra’. Author of books, book chapters, and national and international publications.

Mario Pacas (SM IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1978 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1996, he worked for BBC/ABB in Switzerland and Germany in different R&D and management positions with a very wide experience in international projects. In the ABB organization he was responsible for the development of servo drives and later Product Responsible Manager. Since 1996, he has been a Member of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany, where he was also the Head of the Chair for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives and dean of the faculty. Dr. Pacas is presently Vice President for Global Relations of the Power Electronics Society in IEEE responsible for the area of education. He is now Senior Professor at the Chair for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives in the department of Electrical engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen, Germany and an independent consultant in the area of power electronics, electrical drives and automation.

Electromechanical engineer. Master in Production Engineering. International Engineering Educator. Director of the MECEK Educational Laboratory of the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Misiones (FI UNaM). Professor and Researcher at FI UNAM. Academic Director of Postgraduate courses in the area of Training and Assessment of Competencies within a Student-Centered Model” FI UNaM. Master Lecturer Training by Competencies area in various events in Argentina, Chile and Brazil.

Electrical Engineer. Specialist in Production and Environment Management. Deputy Director of the MECEK Educational Laboratory of the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Misiones (FI UNaM). Teacher and Researcher at FI UNAM. Academic Director of the Postgraduate course “Training and Evaluation of Competencies within a Hybrid and Student-Centered Model” FI UNaM. Institutional representative in the Commission “Women, Gender and Diversity in Engineering” of CONFEDI. Member of the Research Committee in the Latin American Open Chair “Matilda and Women in Engineering”.

Valentino Trainotti was born in Trento, Italy, in January 1935. He obtained the degree of Electronics engineer at the Universidad Tecnolócgica Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1963. His post-grade studies were on Antennas Measurements at the California State University in 1981and Diffraction Geometric Theory and Radar Sign at the Ohio State University in 1985. He has worked from 1953 to 1963 as Electronic technician at Mitre Radio Broadcaster LR6 and from 1963 to 2003 at Citefa at the Defense Ministry of Argentina as Chief Engineer of the Antennas and Radiation Division. Has been distinguished with the grade of IEEE Life fellow in 2010 and he is Member of the Administrative committee of the Broadcast Technology Society of the IEEE from 1999 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2015. He has founded and presided the Argentine Chapter of broadcast technology as Secretary of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility. Besides, he was named secretary of the Argentine Section of the B Commission of URSI. He was distinguished by the IEEE 9 Region as Eminent Engineer in 1993. He received from the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society the prestigious Jules Cohen Award in December 2021.

Marisabel Rodriguez is Electronics Engineer and IEEE Senior Member. She worked in Data Centers´ infrastructure for more than 20 years and in television systems for 10 years. She is a specialist on The Cloud. Nowadays, she is a member of the AdCom of Broadcast Technology Society and she is a representative at the Committee of Inclusion and Diversity.

Laureano Correa is a chemical engineer and a graduate in philosophy, professor of bioethics and ethics assistant at the UNS. He also works as a teacher in the “International Certification Program for Engineering Educators” of the InnovaHiEd-IGIP Institute. He has presented several papers at conferences and conferences, and has published the chapter “Avatars of morality: Nietzsche-Deleuze” in the book “Crisis of Metaphysics. Nihilism and overcoming”. He is a member of the Center for Bioethical Research of the Department of Humanities of the National University of the South, Bahía Blanca, and of the Center for Studies in Philosophy of Culture of the Department of Humanities of the National University of Comahue, Neuquén. His current research concerns mainly ethics, the philosophy of culture and the philosophy of technology.

Laura Frulla has a doctorate in Physical Sciences the National University of Buenos Aires. She specialized in the studies of the physical processes generated in satellite measurements and satellite instruments calibration. She has more than 30 years of experience in the area of remote sensing, image processing and information extraction. She currently works as Earth Observation Manager at the National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE) and is the Principal Investigator of the SAOCOM 1 Mission (CONAE’s SAR mission).

Luciano Giesso works as International Sales Director at Satellogic. He is a multinational executive with more than 25 years of experience in technology and services, of Argentine origin and with several years living in the United States for different periods. He has led teams of over 100 people in multiple countries, holding management, sales, and operations positions at various technology companies, including 14 years at IBM. Fluent in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and German, Luciano is an Industrial Engineer from UCA and has an MBA from Universidad de San Andrés, both in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has also completed executive programs at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management.

Edson H. Watanabe got the Electronic Engineer (1975) degree from the Polytechnic School and Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (1976) from Coppe, both at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and got the Doctor of Engineering (D. Eng.) from Tokyo Institute of Technology, (1981). He is now a professor at the Electrical Engineering Program, Coppe/UFRJ. His field of interests are Power Electronics Applications to Power Systems, including integration of renewable sources to the grid, Electric Energy Quality, HVDC and FACTS. He is the coauthor of the book “Instantaneous Power Theory and Applications to Power Conditioners”, published by IEEE Press / John Wiley in 2017. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering (Brazil), IEE-Japan, Brazilian Society of Automatic Control, Brazilian Power Electronics Society, CIGRE and PELS, IAS, IES and PES at IEEE. In 2013, he received the IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award, he is Life Fellow of IEEE since 2018 and was admitted to the National (Brazil) Order of Scientific Merit, in the class of “Comendador”, in 2005. In 2020 he was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.

Carolina B. Tauro is Principal Investigator of the SABIA-Mar mission at the National Commission for Space Activities.
Carolina has a Ph.D. in Physics, graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics of the National University of Córdoba in the area of modeling complex systems.
Since 2009, he has worked at the National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE) in the development of models and algorithms for the generation of products derived from satellite information. In the first instance, in relation to the satellite mission SAC-D/Aquarius developed jointly between CONAE and NASA (USA). She currently works as Principal Investigator of the SABIA-Sea Mission that CONAE develops, focused mainly on the study of seas and coasts.
Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at the Mario Gulich Institute (CONAE-UNC) and was a member of the Professional Academic Council of the Master of Spatial Information Applications. She is currently a member of the Academic Council of the Doctorate in Geomatics and Satellite Systems of the same institution. She also has publications in international scientific journals and actively participates in scientific meetings and events, as well as in the training and direction of undergraduate and graduate students.
Carolina is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Pampa Azul National Initiative and is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG).

Héctor Laiz received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Buenos Aires in 1988 and a Doctorate from the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, in 1999. In 1989, he joined INTI, the National Metrology of Argentina, where where he carried out research and development in electrical metrology. He was a guest scientist at PTB, Germany, and at NIST, USA. He published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and international conferences.
From 1999 to 2010, he was Deputy Director of Metrology at INTI and was in charge of scientific and legal metrology. Since 2010 he has been Director of Metrology and Quality at INTI. Under his responsibility are all INTI programs in scientific, industrial and legal metrology. From 2014 to 2018, he was the President of the Inter-American Metrology System (SIM), the Regional Metrology Organization for the Americas.
In 2016 he was elected member of the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM), the governing body of the Meter Convention.

His main line of research is in the area of “Electric Power Systems”, mainly prediction, planning, and electricity market. Within this field, he was part of one of the most relevant research groups at the national level and teaches the only interuniversity doctorate course in electrical energy systems at the national level. During these almost 25 years of scientific work, he directed 6 doctoral theses. In addition, he was a participant and director of more than 43 research projects ranging from projects of the National plan to projects financed by the CDTI in collaboration with different companies in the sector. In the execution of these projects, contributions have been made in 60 indexed journals, 7 non-indexed journals, 4 international book chapters, 3 teaching books, and 57 congresses. Finally, it is part of different national network associations (FUTURED, REOLTEC, etc.) and international committees, either of congresses such as PSCC or as members of international committees. It is also part of the DERlab, the European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories (DERlab), and the Ibero-American Network for the Development and Integration of Small Wind Generators (MICRO-EOLO). On the other hand, it has participated in contracts with companies, far exceeding €1M. It is worth noting, for example, the European Market Simulator (GEMS) project was developed under its supervision and marketed by ISOTROL (https://www.isotrol.com/gestion-energia-mercados-mayoristas/). Other projects that have given rise to commercial software are CECOVEL and the Secondary Market Simulator marketed by ISOTROL and acquired by ENDESA. Lastly, he is a founding partner of the technology-based company INGECTUS (https://ingelectus.com/). Dr. Riquelme was Secretary and Director of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Seville. In addition, since 2005 he has been the director of the Master’s Degree in the Electric Power System and since 2018 Coordinator of the Thematic Network P717RT0148-Ibero-American Network for the Development and Integration of Small Wind Generators.

Luis Nando Ochoa is a Professor of Smart Grids and Power Systems at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer, an Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, and an IEEE Senior Member. Previously, from 2011 to 2021, he was full and part-time with The University of Manchester, UK. From 2007 to 2010 he was a Research Fellow in Energy Systems at the University of Edinburgh, UK. In 2010, he also undertook an industrial secondment with the Edinburgh-based company Psymetrix Ltd (part of GE). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering received from UNI (Peru), and a Research MSc and a PhD in Electrical Power Engineering, both received from UNESP Ilha Solteira (Brazil).

Enrique Esteban Mombello (M’95–SM’00) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina, in 1982 and 1998, respectively. He carried out research activities from1989 to 1991 at the High Voltage Institute of RWTH, Aachen, Germany. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Professor at the Institute of Electric Energy, National University of San Juan – CONICET, San Juan, Argentina. Since 2016 he is a member of the CIGRE JWG A2 / C4.52 Group "High-frequency transformer and reactor models for network studies", and since 2019 of the CIGRE JWG A2.63 Group "Transformer impulse testing". He has more than 70 publications in international journals and conference presentations. He has more than 30 years of experience in undergraduate and postgraduate research and teaching projects. His main research interests are high-frequency transformer model development, power transformer design and diagnostics, asset management, transformer life management, electromagnetic transients in power systems, and low frequency electromagnetic fields.

Ricardo L. Armentano has an outstanding trajectory in the cardiovascular engineering field–both in the theoretical principles and in the application to clinics – justified through his two Ph.D one in Physiological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (1994) and the other one in Physics Sciences (Biomechanics) at the University of Paris (1999) as well as his two post Ph.D studies, one in the Department of Physiology of the College of Medicine at the University of the Republic of Uruguay with the Professor Ph.D Ricardo Vellutti as scholar of the Fondo Clemente Estable CONICYT in the Quantitative Physiology area (2002-2003) and the other through a scholarship (bourse senior the La Ville de Paris) to develop Predictive Models of Cardiovascular Risk under the direction of professor Ph.D Alain Simon at the Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou and the University of Paris V Descartes (2008-2009). His areas of specialization are Biomechanics and Vascular Hemodynamics (Laboratoire de Biorhéologie et d’Hydrodynamique Physico Chimique, CNRS, Université Denis Diderot. Paris VII. France) and Data Science, Signal Processing and Biological Systems Modeling INSERM Unité de Recherches Biomathématiques et Bioestatistiques, Université Denis Diderot. Paris VII. France) in this theme he was personal adviser of Ph.D Rene Favaloro (1992-1999). He created a new line of thought in the biomedical engineering which has consolidated him as leader in the field in Latin America. He devoted to model cardiovascular hemodynamics in healthy subjects and in many types of cardio metabolic illnesses. The technological developments derived from his Ph.D thesis works have given place to prestigious methods of cardiovascular diagnosis which are used in centers of vascular exploration in Latin America as well as at the European Hospital George Pompidou, Paris where he carried out his second post Ph.D studies.
As scientist, among his more than 200 extended works, his work with greatest impact H-index 30 was the inspiring motor for two USPTO patents which gave place to 8 Ph.D. thesis works. This particular paper over arterial mechanics appeared among the 20 most quoted publications in the history of the specialty. This brought him international prestige in the field of cardiovascular hemodynamics and arterial hypertension participating in the editorial board of various journals of international bio medics, as well as scientific evaluator in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Arab Emirates, EEUU, Europe, Australia, India and China. His researches in the front area of techno-space between medicine and engineering allow him to be
a pioneer in the teaching of Cardiovascular Quantitative Physiology at the College of Medicine, University of the Republic obtaining the award Nova by CUIIDARTE in the category of “Public interest” given by the National Agency of Research and Innovation and the Commerce and Services Chamber, Uruguay Chamber of Information Technologies, ART Program of PNUD, Union of Exporters and Uruguay XXI (2012). He was distinguished IEEE R9 Eminent Engineer in 2019. He was IEEE EMBS Distinguished –lecturer 2019-2021 and he is the clinical link of the Technical Committee on Cardiopulmonary Systems and engineer based on the physiology, of the same institute (IEEE).
As educator he conceived, started up and directed 3 grade complete careers in Bio medical engineering -Bio engineering, and at post-grade level, a master of two years in the same field of knowledge. At the University of Buenos Aires, he developed the first summer international school in Bio Mechanic Modeling and in Mecanobiology as well as the first thoroughly virtual version. He was recognized as the first scientist biographer Leonardo Da Vinci in Italian IN-GENIO High studies Italy-Argentina Centre of UBA and Italian Embassy in Argentina.

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