Carlos A. Perez

Claudio A. Perez received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering, the P.E. Title in electrical engineering and M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Universidad de Chile, and the Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University. He was a Fulbright Student with The Ohio State University, where he received a Presidential Fellowship. He was a Visiting Scholar with UC Berkeley, in 2002, through the Alumni Initiatives Award Program from Fulbright Foundation. He was the Department Chairperson, from 2003 to 2006, and the Director of the Office of Academic and Research Affairs, School of Engineering, Universidad de Chile, from 2014 to 2018, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include biometrics, image processing applications, convolutional neural networks, neuroevolution, applications to medical imaging, and pattern recognition. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society and the IEEE CIS Society.