Francisco Vargas, COLOMBIA

Vargas_Francisco

J. Francisco Vargas received his MSc degree in Automation from National University of Colombia in 2003, and his PhD degree in Cybernetics and Telecommunications from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University (Spain) in 2010.  Since 2004 is an Assistant Professor in School of Engineering at University of Antioquia, Colombia.

He is currently the Head of the Electronic Engineering Department.  Current research includes handwriting signature verification and speaker verification, and he has participated on several initiatives involving researchers from Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Brasil, Chile, Perú and Argentina.

He is member of the IEEE Signal Processing and AESS Colombian Chapters.  He was the General Chairman of the 2013 ICCST in Medellin, Colombia.