2022 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON)

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.

Graduated as a Scientific Calculator at the National University of La Plata. She was dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Atlántida Argentina, she is Secretary General of the Latin American Open Chair of Matilda and women in Engineering, member of the Council of Informatics Sciences Professionals of the Province of Buenos Aires. Collaborates in the MECEK Laboratory of the National University of Misiones, Member of the Editorial Committee of the books “Matilda and Women in Engineering in Latin America II, III and IV”, Member of the Computer Engineering Network / Information Systems of CONFEDI – (RIISIC).
She has served as President of the Commission for Women in Engineering of the Council of Deans of Engineering Faculties (CONFEDI), forming part of its Directive Commission. She was a founding member and Vice President of the Disciplinary Court of the Professional Council of Computer Sciences of the Province of Buenos Aires (CPCIBA), Founding member of the University Network for Entry and Permanence in Scientific-Technological Careers (IPECyT), Coordinator of University and Teaching Extension Head of the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering of the Catholic University of La Plata, Coordinator of ICT Areas for more than 30 years with performance in the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires and Secretariat of Prevention and Assistance of Addictions of the Province of Buenos Aires. She maintains Continuous Training. She has published articles in Matilda books and magazines and has given presentations at various Congresses and Conferences both in the country and abroad.

Micaela Ailén Sayal is a visual arts teacher specialized in engraving and printed art, she has experience as an art therapist, founder of West Dragons, a playful group that takes role-playing games and their learning to the whole country, as well as a member of the GTC and IEEE, as well as a feminist activist.

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.