2022 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON)

Diego Comas  is an Electronics Engineer received in 2010 from the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Mar del Plata (FI-UNMDP), Argentina, and a Doctor of Engineering, electronic orientation received at the same Faculty in 2016. He is a researcher at the Laboratory of Image Processing (LPI) of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Research in Electronics (ICyTE, dependent on the UNMDP and CONICET) and an Assistant Researcher at CONICET, Argentina, specializing in medical image segmentation, knowledge discovery, Fuzzy Logic, Deep-Learning and acquisition and processing of biomedical signals. He is an Associate Professor, of exclusive dedication, of the Department of Electronic Engineering and Computing of the FI-UNMDP, with teaching tasks in the subjects “Probability and Stochastic Processes”, and “Introduction to Digital Image Processing” and the postgraduate course “Recognition of images with Machine Learning”. He carried out research stays at the Center for Advanced Studies in Information and Communication Technologies (Jaén, Spain); the Computational Modeling Laboratory – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium), and the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME) – University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil; May 2012).

Virginia Laura Ballarin is Electronic Engineer and PhD in Bioengineering. She is Full Professor in Signal Processing area at the Electronics Engineering Department of the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMDP), Argentina and Director of the Image Processing Research Group at Research Institute of Science and Technology in Electronics (ICYTE). (Research category 1).
She has directed more than 20 PhD thesis and 25 undergraduate thesis, all in biomedical image processing area. She is author of more than 75 papers in refereed journals and more than 130 conference presentations.
Since 2017 she is member of the Council of the Institute of Science and Technology in Electronics (ICYTE). Currently she is Creator and Director of the Postgraduate Programme inBioengineering at the UNMDP, and from 2015, Editor of the Argentinian Journal of Bioengineering.
She was President of the Argentinean Bioengineering Society from 2013 to 2015 and President of the Argentinian Chapter of EMBS – IEEE form 2016 to 2018. She was EMBS Representative member at the IEEE International Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC) during 2021 and Secretary of the Argentinean IEEE WIE Affinity Group from 2013 to 2016.
She is currently Chair of the Committee of Women in MBE of the IFMBE and Vice President of the IEEE Argentinian Chapter,
She is Secretary General of the Latin American Council of Biomedical Engineering (CORAL) from 2020.
She has been member of several Peer Comitees in academic evaluation of Graduate and Postgraduate Careers for Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Colombia in ARCUSUR System since 2008.