Dr. Ing. William Ipanaqué Alama
Full Professor at the University of Piura. His areas of expertise include process automation and optimization, emerging technologies, and innovation systems. He is the author of invention patents, software registrations, and two books, and has contributed chapters to two others. He is a speaker at seminars, courses, and conferences at national and international institutions. He has worked as a science and technology consultant for public institutions in Peru. In 2015, he was awarded the Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo Gomero Order of Merit for his work and impact in technological research. In his field, he is one of the leading Peruvian authors with numerous Scopus publications and R&D projects.
Dr. Edilberto Vásquez Díaz
Research Professor at the University of Piura. PhD in Process and Systems Engineering from the University of Valladolid, Spain. Master's degree in Industrial Control Systems from the University of Valladolid, Spain. Industrial Engineer from the University of Piura. Qualified as a RENACYT Researcher. Carlos Monge Group, Level III. Registration: 3632. His research fields are industrial automation, energy efficiency, renewable energies, structural and equipment integrity assessment, and signal processing.
Dr. Ing. César Chinguel Arrese
Research Professor at the University of Piura since 1987 and Director of the Electronics Laboratory in the Faculty of Engineering since 2014. Member of the Piura Cacao Technical Committee as the UDEP representative and manager of R&D&I projects focused on improving the cacao production chain. Researcher at the UDEP University-Business Liaison Office for R&D&I projects related to image processing and automation. Thesis advisor for undergraduate and graduate students with scientific publications in indexed journals.
Dr. Ing. Justo Oquelis Cabredo
He is a research professor at the University of Piura, teaching courses in Power Systems, Distribution and Utilization Systems, and Electrical Machines in the Faculty of Engineering. He has 25 years of experience in the design of electronic and electrical power control systems, the design and implementation of control systems based on PACs, PLCs, industrial communication networks including wireless systems, fieldbuses, and centralized and distributed control equipment, as well as industrial monitoring and control systems.
Dr. Eng. Luigi del Re
Full Professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, and Director of the Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronic Systems at the same university. His research areas include nonlinear control, with a particular focus on approximate representations; parameter and structure identification; automotive control; predictive control modeling; and systematic design evaluation. His main research interests lie in engine and vehicle technology, hydraulic systems, process control, and biomedical systems.
Dr. Eng. Javier Montoya Zegarra
He holds a PhD in Engineering and is a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, and at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. His research areas include Computer Vision, Computer Science and Machine Learning, supervised learning by classification, random walks and Markov chains, pattern inference, and object recognition. He earned his Master's degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in São Paulo, Brazil. His Master's thesis was awarded best thesis defended in 2007 at the Institute of Computing.
Dr. Eng. Pablo Tkachenko
He holds a PhD in Engineering from Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, and is a research scientist at the Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronic Systems at the same university. His research areas include inverse problems, regularization theory, machine learning, learning theory, numerical analysis, and mathematical modeling of physical processes. He has worked as a researcher at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) in Austria and at the Coal Energy Technology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences (CETI NASU) in Ukraine.
Dr. Ing. Guilherme Vianna Raffo
PhD in Robotics and Automation from the University of Seville. Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His research areas include predictive control, electronic process control, automation, stability and control, and software engineering. His articles have been ranked four times among the 25 most interesting articles worldwide on automation by Elsevier – ScienceDirect. He is the author of the book “Control of Mobile Robots for Trajectory Tracking.”.
Dr. Eng. Harvey Arellano
He holds a PhD in Engineering and is a lecturer and researcher in Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey, UK. His research experience includes the application of mathematical methods to optimize the design, control, and operation of processes, as well as model-based experimental analysis of energy processes and systems. His research activities focus on the development and application of systems engineering approaches for process intensification and integration, dynamic process simulation, model-based analysis, experimental verification, modeling, and optimization of complex systems.
Dr. Eng. Bogdan Dorneanu
PhD in Chemical Engineering and researcher in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey, UK. Postdoctoral fellow at the Procter & Gamble Innovation Centre – Newcastle, UK. He received a Marie Curie fellowship to pursue his doctoral studies in Process Design and Control at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. His research areas include process modeling, numerical techniques, and mathematical and numerical models.
Dr. Genara Castillo
She holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Navarra (Spain). She has completed postgraduate studies in Educational Psychology in Milan (Italy) and holds a degree in Educational Sciences from the University of Piura. Her doctoral thesis is titled “The Unity of Human Life (Aristotle and Leonardo Polo),” and her research in this area focuses on the unity of body and soul, the unity of theoretical life or the integration of the sciences, and the unity of practical life. She is a member of the Faculty of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Navarra, a founding member of the Leonardo Polo Institute of Philosophical Studies, a member of the scientific committee of several specialized journals at Spanish universities, and has authored a dozen books, mostly on topics in Philosophy and Pedagogy. She is also a visiting professor at several neighboring universities.
Dr. María Pía Chirinos
PhD in Philosophy from the University of Navarra. Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Navarra.
Research focus: Anthropology of work. Hospitality and culture: the traditions of hospitality in ancient Greek culture and contemporary philosophy. Care Ethics. Cultural anthropology.