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This list of speakers is being updated as per final program is completed.


1)Carlos A. Smith (University of South Florida)

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Chemical Engineering, University
of South Florida.
Over two hundred and fifty (250) short courses taught in the areas of Automatic Process
Control, Computer Process Control, Chemical Engineering and Dynamic Process
Modeling.
Institute Area: Control and Instrumentation

2) Marco E. Sanjuán (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, University of South Florida
Chairman Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidad del Norte.
Recent publications: SANJUAN, M., KANDEL, A., SMITH, C. [2003]. Design of a
Fuzzy Agent to Avoid Instability in a SISO PID Control Loop. Submitted, Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Engineering
Institute Area: Control and Instrumentation


3) Ronanth Zavaleta (Universidad de Aquino Bolivia)

Post-Doctoral Work: Chemical Engineering, "Limits of Stable Behavior of Semibatch
Chemical Reactors", Institute für Technische Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin
(TUB), Germany, 1986.
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering (Ph D). Montana State University, U.S.A.
1975.
Currently Provost of the UNIVERSIDAD DE AQUINO BOLIVIA (UDABOL), La Paz,
Bolivia and Chairman of the Board, COMSITEC SRL, a Telecommunications Company.
Profesor Emeritus at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), La Paz, Bolivia.
Institute Area: Control and Instrumentation

4) Luis Cabezas (Universidad de Aquino Bolivia)
Electronics Engineer with Telecommunications Specialization – Universidad Mayor de
San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia.
More than fifteen courses taught in different Universities (Universidad de Aquino
Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Universidad Tecnológica Boliviana) in
Bolivia, most of them related to Digital Systems and Communications.
Institute Area: Digital Signal Processing

5) Wilfrido A. Moreno (University of South Florida)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida
Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of South
Florida.
Institute Area: Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Rapid System Prototyping of
Electronic Systems (VHDL) and Distance Learning.

6) Ramiro Jordán (University of New Mexico - ISTEC)
Ph.D. Kansas State University.
Associate Professor, Associate Chair; Director, EECE Undergraduate Program.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Executive Director of the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education
Consortium.
Institute Area: Digital Signal Processing (DSP).

7) Marcelo Vera (University of South Florida)
Ph.D. Engineering Management Instructional Technology Engineering, Kennedy-
Western University (1999)
Director of Distance Learning for the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of
South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
Institute Area: Distance Learning.

8) Rafael Perez (University of South Florida)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (1973).
Graduate Program Director and Professor of the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Institute Area: Neural Networks.


9) Eduardo E. Zurek (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida.
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida (2002).
Institute Area: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Rapid System Prototyping of
Electronic Systems (VHDL).

10) Luis Navarrete (University of South Florida)
Graduate Student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Degree: Master of
Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE).
Institute Area: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Rapid System Prototyping of
Electronic Systems (VHDL).

11) Miguel A. Labrador (University of South Florida)
Ph.D. in Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh (2000).
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of
South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Institute Area: Next Generation Optical Networks

12)Orlando J. Hernandez (The College of New Jersey)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2002), Southern Methodist University.
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey.
Research Areas: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Computer Architecture, and Digital Signal Processing.
More than ten years of industrial experience in the development of imaging and audio Digital Signal Processors.
Latest Publication: Classification of Color Textures Using Multispectral Random Fields Models [2004], Submitted to the Pattern Recognition Journal, Elsevier Science B.V. and the Pattern Recognition Society.
Institute Area: Digital Signal Processing (DSP).


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