Dr. Diego Tibaduiza holds a degree in electronics engineering and a master's degree from the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga, Colombia. He also received his Ph.D. from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Currently, he serves as a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia. He is also the head of the Electronics Engineering research group at the same university. He has served as the Guest Editor of Special Issues such as "Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring and Condition Monitoring," "Toward Data-Driven Structural Health Monitoring: New Approaches and Sensor-Based Methods," and "New Sensor-Based Methods for Structural Health Monitoring-2nd Edition" at MDPI. He is also an editor in several journals. Dr. Tibaduiza has published numerous papers in various conferences and journals. He has authored over 59 conference papers, 60 journal papers, 15 chapter books, 3 books, and several master's and Ph.D. theses. His research interests mainly focus on structural health monitoring, pattern recognition, condition monitoring, sensors, electronic tongues and noses, digital design, and robotics.
Dr. Maribel Anaya is affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Bogotá in Bogotá, Colombia. Dr. Anaya’s research interest mainly focuses on electronic sensors, signal processing, pattern recognition and structural health monitoring. Dr. Anaya’s scientific output includes 35 publications in various journals with an h-index of 10 (Scopus, March 2024).
Johan Gómez embarked on his journey in electronics engineering at the National University of Colombia in 2020, where he is now affiliated with the Research Group in High-Frequency Electronics and Telecommunications (CMUN). His research interest includes the classification of microplastics using electronic tongues and noses via electrochemical techniques, alongside employing artificial intelligence machine learning models for classification. He delves into digital electronics, embedded systems in FPGA with expertise in VHDL and Verilog and IP cores, and processor architecture.
Juan Daniel Sarmiento received his master's degree in electronics engineering from the National University of Colombia in 2024. He is currently a doctoral student in engineering from the National University of Colombia. Since 2022, he has been associated with the Microelectronics group of the National University of Colombia-GMUN developing systems based on electronic languages, sensor fusion, and artificial intelligence. His research interests include intelligent system design, machine learning, electrochemical analysis, FPGA digital system design, and robust control.
Maria Perez is pursuing a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering at the National University of Colombia in Bogota. Since 2023, she has been actively involved in the Research Group of Electronics Engineering, where she has been working on a project to detect microplastics in water using electronic tongues. Her research interests revolve around implementing embedded systems in monitoring systems, sensor technology, and data processing and analysis.
Cristhian Lara graduated in Mechatronics Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, in 2020, and is currently in his final year of his master's program in Industrial Automation Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Since 2023, he has been working in the Electronics, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence Research Seminar of the High Frequency Electronics and Telecommunications Research Group CMUN at the National University of Colombia. His research interests include the use of sensors for the monitoring of environmental variables, waste management through the use of artificial intelligence, intelligent control, and the Internet of Things.
Johan Ruiz has been a student of Electronics Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in Bogotá, Colombia, since 2020. He is currently in his last year. Throughout his career, he has been highlighted as one of the best students of his faculty at the academic level, obtaining two honorable mentions. His research interests are in the fields of digital systems, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence, particularly in the development of solutions based on hardware-software relation, the use of algorithms for data processing, and the analysis of communication networks. He has writing skills, and thanks to this, he has participated in national writing contests, publishing some of his texts in books and magazines.
Nicolás Osorio is currently an undergraduate student of electronics engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Since 2023, he has been part of the research group in electronics, signal processing, and artificial intelligence. His research interests include signal processing for solving problems in an efficient and economically viable way.
Katerin Rodríguez is currently completing her final year of Chemical Engineering at the National University of Colombia in Bogota. She demonstrated her leadership skills by promoting participation in the DAAD scholarship program, which was awarded in April 2023 for a study visit to German universities focusing on polymeric materials alongside 15 students and Professor Jairo Perilla. In Fall 2023, she began a six-month research stay at Purdue University, focusing on the synthesis, processing, and characterization of chemically depolymerizable polymers under the guidance of Professor Letian Dou, Dr. Pengfei Wu, and Qixuan Hu. She has been a monitor assistant at the Environmental and Chemical Engineering Laboratory, gaining experience in techniques used in both academia and industry, such as polymer testing, optical microscopy, contact angle measurements, gel permeation chromatography (GPC), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Her research interests include polymers, starch biopolymers, microplastic detection, analytical techniques, materials science, sensors, and recycling. She contributes to the research seedbed in Electronics, Signal Processing, and Intelligent Systems at the National University of Colombia and has participated as one of the authors in a conference paper titled "Clasificación de microplásticos usando lenguas electrónicas".
Isaac Hernandez has been studying electronics engineering since 2020 and joined the research group in electronics engineering in 2022 under the direction of Dr. Diego Tibaduiza. Isaac is currently researching the applications of tongues and electronic noses, focusing on their potential uses for future projects and innovations.
Carlos Sanchez is affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Bogotá, in Bogotá, Colombia. He is an associate professor of instrumentation, sensors, and analog electronics. His research interests include electronics applications, digital transformation, and data acquisition.