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Claudia Prieto Vasquez

Associate Professor

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Image reconstruction, Motion correction, Medical Imaging, Machine Learning, Cardiovascular Imaging.

Educación

  •  Magnetic Resonance Imaging, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2007
  •  Electrical Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2005
  •  Electrical Engineering Minor in Industrial Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2003
  •  Higher Education, KINGS COLLEGE LONDON. Reino Unido, 2015

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Engineering

    Chile

    2011 - 2020

  •   Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

    KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

    Medicine

    Reino Unido

    2008 - 2010

  •   Internship Full Time

    IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

    Londres, Reino Unido

    2006 - 2006

  •   Assistant Professor (Lecturer) Full Time

    KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

    Medicine

    Londres, Reino Unido

    2011 - 2015

  •   Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) Full Time

    KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

    Medicine

    London, Reino Unido

    2015 - 2018

  •   Associate Professor (Reader) Full Time

    KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

    Medicine

    London, Reino Unido

    2018 - A la fecha

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Faculty of Engineering

    Chile

    2020 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Internship Part Time

    Fundación Futuro

    Chile

    2004 - 2004

Formación de Capital Humano


Research Supervision

Postdoctoral researchers
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1. Dr. M Usman (2012-2016)
2. Dr. A Aitken (2015)
3. Dr. G Ginami (2016-2018)
4. Dr. T Correia (2015-2019)
5. Dr. G Cruz (2016-today)
6. Dr. A Bustin (2017-2019)
7. Dr. T Kuestner (2018-today)
8. Dr. N Fuin (2018-2020)
9. Dr. H Qi (2018-today)
10. Dr. G Nordio (2018-2020)
11. Dr. C Munoz (2018-today)
12. Dr C Velasco (2019-today)

PhD students
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1. Dr. C Kolbitsch, King’s College London (2009-2013)
2. Dr. A Aitken, King’s College London (2011-2015)
3. Dr. G Lima da Cruz, King’s College London (2013-2016)
4. Dr. C von Deuster, King’s College London (2012-2016)
5. J. Royuela del Val (3 months internship supervisor)-Spain, at KCL (2014)
6. C Munoz, King’s College London (2015-2018)
7. O Jaubert, King’s College London (2017-2020)
8. J Bland, King’s College London (2016-2020)
9. G Milotta, King’s College London (2017-today)
10. A Gaspar, University of Lisbon (2018-today)
11. A Psenicny, King’s College London (2019-today)

MSc and MRes students
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1. K Letelier, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) (2013)
2. N Paschke, Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie – Germany, at KCL (2014)
3. C Munoz, King’s College London (2015)
4. A Gaspar, King’s College London (2016)
5. A Berradia, Ecole d’Ingenieurs de Grenoble-France, at KCL (2016)
6. G Milotta, King’s College London (2017)
7. S Ahmad, King’s College London (2018)
8. A Psenicny, King’s College London (2019)
9. I Brahino, King’s College London (2019)
10. I Valasakis, King’s College London (2020)

Undergraduate students
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1. F Boige, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan – France, at King’s College London (KCL) (2014)
2. N Gavami, King’s College London (2015)
3. T Costa, University of Lisbon, summer internship at KCL (2015)
4. A da Costa, University of Lisbon, summer internship at KCL (2016)
5. A Diogo, University of Lisbon, summer internship at KCL (2017)
6. E Dunston, King’s College London (2018)
7. L del Zompo, King’s College London (2018)
8. S Salahuddin, King’s College London (2018)
9. A Elwakil, King’s College London (2019)
10. T Fong, King’s College London (2019)

Research Supervision Prizes and Awards
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1. Summa cum Laude Award for abstract presentation International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
2. Magna cum Laude Award for abstract presentation ISMRM, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
3. Early Career Award SCMR 2018 (first author Dr A. Bustin)
4. Early Career Award SCMR 2019 (first author Dr G. Ginami)
5. First Place, Best Abstract Presentation, ISMRM PET-MR Imaging Study Group 2018 (first author C. Munoz)
6. Second Place, Best Abstract Presentation, ISMRM Cardiac Intervention Study Group 2018 (first author G. Ginami)
7. Second Place, Potchen Award, Society for MRA 2018, (first author C. Munoz)
8. First Place, Best Abstract Presentation, ISMRM Cardiac Study Group 2019 (first author A. Bustin)
9. Passariello Award, Society for MRA 2019, (first author G Milotta)
10. Mansfield Research Innovation 2018, (first author T Correia)
11. Mansfield Research Innovation 2019, (first author A Bustin)


Difusión y Transferencia


Editorial and Society Boards and Programme Committees
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1. Deputy Editor Journal “Magnetic Resonance in Medicine”
2. Board of Trustees Member “Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance”
3. Programme Committee Chair, 2019 ISMRM-SCMR Workshop “The Role of AI in Cardiac Imaging”, Seattle, US.
4. Programme Committee Member, 2022 Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Summit, London, UK.
5. Programme Committee Member, 2020 Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) Conference, Orlando, USA.
6. Programme Committee Member, 2019 European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
7. Programme Committee Member, 2020 ESMRMB Conference, Barcelona, Spain (virtual conference).
8. Programme Committee Member, 2022 ISMRM Motion Correction Workshop, Oxford, UK.
9. Stipend Sub-Committee Member, 2019-2020, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).

Membership of Professional and Learned Societies
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1. Member of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
2. Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
3. Member of Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR).
4. Reviewer for several international journals, including: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (MRM), Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR), Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI), IEEE Topics in Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), Medical Image Analysis

Invited Talks
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1. Multiparametric CMR for Comprehensive Myocardial Tissue Characterisation, Invited speaker, Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Orlando, USA, 2020.
2. Overcoming technical challenges in PET-MRI of the heart, Invited speaker, Siemens PET-MR Summit, London UK, 2020.
3. High dimensionality patch based reconstruction for accelerated multi-contrast MRI, Invited speaker, Synergistic Reconstruction Symposium, Chester, UK, 2019.
4. Patterns in the Heart by MR Fingerprinting and Radiomics, Invited speaker, King’s British Heart Foundation Research Centre of Excellence Workshop, London, UK, 2019.
5. Technical Challenges of Cardiac Imaging and the Role of Artificial Intelligence, Invited speaker, Smart Heart Symposium in Cardiac Artificial Intelligence London, UK, 2019.
6. Artificial Intelligence for MR angiography, Invited conference speaker, International Society of Magnetic Resonance Angiography (SMRA), Nantes, France, 2019.
7. Machine Learning based reconstruction to accelerate whole-heart 3D cardiac MRI, Invited speaker, Combining Magnetic Resonance and Artificial Intelligence, ISMRM British Chapter/MIDL London, UK, 2019.
8. How to Quantify the signal in cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Invited speaker, European Society for Molecular Imaging, Glasgow, UK, 2019.
9. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting, Invited speaker, European Society for Cardiac MRI, Venice, Italy, 2019.
10. Motion of the Heart with Respiratory and Cardiac Cycles: Advanced Motion Correction Techniques, Invited conference speaker, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Montreal, Canada, 2019.
11. Series of Seminars: Cardiac MRI, Visiting Professor, University of Valladolid, Spain, 2018.
12. Sharpening: Motion Correction in Cardiac MRI, Invited conference speaker, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Paris, France, 2018.
13. Three Dimensions at the Lower Ranks, Invited keynote lecture, Retreat Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, University of Lausanne, 2017
14. Basic Principles of MR Reconstruction, Invited lecture, Workshop: PET-MR Image Reconstruction. Part of the 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the British, Chapter of the ISMRM, Leeds University, 2016.
15. Undersampled Reconstruction Techniques to Speed up MRI , Invited lecture, UCL PET-MR Methodology Symposium, University College London, London, September 2016.
16. Exploiting sparsity and new encoding schemes for accelerated quantitative MRI, Plenary Lecture, European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB), Vienna, Austria, September 2016.
17. Accelerated and Motion Corrected Cardiac MR Reconstruction, Invited keynote lecture, Retreat Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, University of Lausanne 2015
18. Compressed Sensing in Cardiac MRI, Invited keynote lecture, Retreat Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, University of Lausanne, Gex, France, 2014
19. The Motion Problem, Invited conference speaker, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Salt Lake City, USA, 2013.
20. Sampling Less Reconstructing More: Compressed Sensing, Invited keynote lecture, Retreat Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, University of Lausanne, Gex, France, 2013
21. Reconstruction Methods for Undersampled Data, Invited conference speaker, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Melbourne, Australia, 2012.

Patent Applications
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1. Method of Reconstructing Magnetic Resonance Image Data
Publication number: 20190346522
Type: Application
Filed: May 10, 2019
Publication date: November 14, 2019
Applicants: Siemens Healthcare GmbH, King's College London
Inventors: Rene Botnar, Aurelien Bustin, Radhouene Neji, Claudia Prieto

2. Method and apparatus for Reconstructing Magnetic Resonance Image Data
Publication number: 20190317172
Type: Application
Filed: April 12, 2019
Publication date: October 17, 2019
Applicant: Siemens Healthcare Limited
Inventors: Rene Botnar, Teresa Correia, Radhouene Neji, Claudia Prieto

3. Method of performing Magnetic Resonance Imaging and a Magnetic Resonance Apparatus
Publication number: 20190064299
Type: Application
Filed: August 22, 2018
Publication date: February 28, 2019
Inventors: Rene Botnar, Giulia Ginami, Radhouene Neji, Claudia Prieto


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Marcos Orrego Puelma

    INSTITUTO DE INGENIEROS DE CHILE

    Chile, 2006

    Best student award

  •   Electrical Engineering Award

    COLEGIO DE INGENIEROS DE CHILE A.G.

    Chile

    Electrical engineering student award

  •   Best Student Award

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Chile

    Best Student Award from the School of Engineering PUC, Class of 2005


 

Article (90)

3D Whole-heart free-breathing qBOOST-T2 mapping
3D whole-heart isotropic sub-millimeter resolution coronary magnetic resonance angiography with non-rigid motion-compensated PROST
3D whole‐heart isotropic‐resolution motion‐compensated joint T 1 /T 2 mapping and water/fat imaging
A multi-scale variational neural network for accelerating motion-compensated whole-heart 3D coronary MR angiography
Accelerated free-breathing whole-heart 3D T-2 mapping with high isotropic resolution
Contrast-free high-resolution 3D magnetization transfer imaging for simultaneous myocardial scar and cardiac vein visualization
Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Technical Innovations Leading Us to the Promised Land?
Faster 3D saturation-recovery based myocardial T1 mapping using a reduced number of saturation points and denoising
Free-running cardiac magnetic resonance fingerprinting: Joint T1/T2 map and Cine imaging
From Compressed-Sensing to Artificial Intelligence-Based Cardiac MRI Reconstruction
Isotropic 3D Cartesian single breath-hold CINE MRI with multi-bin patch-based low-rank reconstruction
Motion-corrected and high-resolution anatomically assisted (MOCHA) reconstruction of arterial spin labeling MRI
Multi-parametric liver tissue characterization using MR fingerprinting: Simultaneous T-1, T-2, T-2*, and fat fraction mapping
Multi‐parametric liver tissue characterization using MR fingerprinting: Simultaneous T 1 , T 2 , T 2 *, and fat fraction mapping
Respiratory motion-compensated high-resolution 3D whole-heart T1 rho mapping
SIRF: Synergistic Image Reconstruction Framework
Water-fat Dixon cardiac magnetic resonance fingerprinting
Weighted Manifold Alignment using Wave Kernel Signatures for Aligning Medical Image Datasets
Whole-heart T1 mapping using a 2D fat image navigator for respiratory motion compensation
3D Cartesian fast interrupted steady-state (FISS) imaging
3D SASHA myocardial T1 mapping with high accuracy and improved precision
Accelerated 3D T(2)w-imaging of the prostate with 1-millimeter isotropic resolution in less than 3 minutes
Accelerated 3D T-2 mapping with dictionary-based matching for prostate imaging
Automatic CNN-based detection of cardiac MR motion artefacts using k-space data augmentation and curriculum learning
Five-minute whole-heart coronary MRA with sub-millimeter isotropic resolution, 100% respiratory scan efficiency, and 3D-PROST reconstruction
Free-running 3D whole heart myocardial T-1 mapping with isotropic spatial resolution
Free-running simultaneous myocardial T1/T2 mapping and cine imaging with 3D whole-heart coverage and isotropic spatial resolution
High-dimensionality undersampled patch-based reconstruction (HD-PROST) for accelerated multi-contrast MRI
Molecular and Nonmolecular Magnetic Resonance Coronary and Carotid Imaging
Motion corrected water/fat whole-heart coronary MR angiography with 100% respiratory efficiency
Multi-modal synergistic PET and MR reconstruction using mutually weighted quadratic priors
Non-contrast enhanced simultaneous 3D whole-heart bright-blood pulmonary veins visualization and black-blood quantification of atrial wall thickness
Respiratory motion corrected 4D flow using golden radial phase encoding
Respiratory- and cardiac motion-corrected simultaneous whole-heart PET and dual phase coronary MR angiography
Rigid motion-corrected magnetic resonance fingerprinting
Simultaneous 3D whole-heart bright-blood and black blood imaging for cardiovascular anatomy and wall assessment with interleaved T(2)prep-IR
Space-time variant weighted regularization in compressed sensing cardiac cine MRI
Sparsity and locally low rank regularization for MR fingerprinting
Accelerated magnetic resonance fingerprinting using soft-weighted key-hole (MRF-SOHO)
Cardiac MR Motion Artefact Correction from K-space Using Deep Learning-Based Reconstruction
Deep Learning Using K-Space Based Data Augmentation for Automated Cardiac MR Motion Artefact Detection
Motion-corrected simultaneous cardiac positron emission tomography and coronary MR angiography with high acquisition efficiency
Motion-corrected whole-heart PET-MR for the simultaneous visualisation of coronary artery integrity and myocardial viability: an initial clinical validation
MRI SLICE STACKING USING MANIFOLD ALIGNMENT AND WAVE KERNEL SIGNATURES
Optimized respiratory-resolved motion-compensated 3D Cartesian coronary MR angiography
PET-MR RESPIRATORY SIGNAL ESTIMATION USING SEMI-SUPERVISED MANIFOLD ALIGNMENT
Simultaneous bright- and black-blood whole-heart MRI for noncontrast enhanced coronary lumen and thrombus visualization
Synergistic PET and SENSE MR Image Reconstruction Using Joint Sparsity Regularization
Technical note: Accelerated nonrigid motion-compensated isotropic 3D coronary MR angiography
3D whole-heart phase sensitive inversion recovery CMR for simultaneous black-blood late gadolinium enhancement and bright-blood coronary CMR angiography
Free breathing whole-heart 3D CINE MRI with self-gated Cartesian trajectory
High-Resolution Self-Gated Dynamic Abdominal MRI Using Manifold Alignment
Highly efficient nonrigid motion-corrected 3D whole-heart coronary vessel wall imaging
PET image reconstruction using multi-parametric anato-functional priors
Whole-Heart Single Breath-Hold Cardiac Cine: A Robust Motion-Compensated Compressed Sensing Reconstruction Method
Accelerated cardiac cine MRI using locally low rank and finite difference constraints
Accelerated Motion Corrected Three-Dimensional Abdominal MRI Using Total Variation Regularized SENSE Reconstruction
Accelerating dual cardiac phase images using phase encoding trajectories
MR-Based Cardiac and Respiratory Motion-Compensation Techniques for PET-MR Imaging
MULTIRESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION OF REAL-TIME MRI WITH MOTION COMPENSATED COMPRESSED SENSING: APPLICATION TO 2D FREE-BREATHING CARDIAC MRI
100% Efficient three-dimensional coronary MR angiography with two-dimensional beat-to-beat translational and bin-to-bin affine motion correction
Comparison of Image-Based and Reconstruction-Based Respiratory Motion Correction for Golden Radial Phase Encoding Coronary MR Angiography
Highly Efficient Respiratory Motion Compensated Free-Breathing Coronary MRA Using Golden-Step Cartesian Acquisition
Manifold learning based ECG-free free-breathing cardiac CINE MRI
Whole left ventricular functional assessment from two minutes free breathing multi-slice CINE acquisition
A 3D MR-acquisition scheme for nonrigid bulk motion correction in simultaneous PET-MR
Cardiac Functional Assessment without Electrocardiogram Using Physiological Self-Navigation
Compressive Manifold Learning: Estimating One-Dimensional Respiratory Motion Directly from Undersampled k-Space Data
Improved UTE-based attenuation correction for cranial PET-MR using dynamic magnetic field monitoring
Retrospective Rigid Motion Correction in k-Space for Segmented Radial MRI
Three-Dimensional Late Gadolinium-Enhanced MR Imaging of the Left Atrium: A Comparison of Spiral Versus Cartesian k-Space Trajectories
Whole-Heart Coronary MRA with 3D Affine Motion Correction Using 3D Image-Based Navigation
Calcium (Ca2+) waves data calibration and analysis using image processing techniques
Group Sparse Reconstruction Using Intensity-Based Clustering
Highly efficient 3D motion-compensated abdomen MRI from undersampled golden-RPE acquisitions
Motion corrected compressed sensing for free-breathing dynamic cardiac MRI
Accelerating three-dimensional molecular cardiovascular MR imaging using compressed sensing
Nonrigid Motion Modeling of the Liver From 3-D Undersampled Self-Gated Golden-Radial Phase Encoded MRI
Prospective high-resolution respiratory-resolved whole-heart MRI for image-guided cardiovascular interventions
Whole-heart coronary MR angiography with 2D self-navigated image reconstruction
A computationally efficient OMP-based compressed sensing reconstruction for dynamic MRI
Highly Efficient Whole-Heart Imaging Using Radial Phase Encoding-Phase Ordering With Automatic Window Selection
k-t Group Sparse: A Method for Accelerating Dynamic MRI
TRIO a Technique for Reconstruction Using Intensity Order: Application to Undersampled MRI
3D Undersampled Golden-Radial Phase Encoding for DCE-MRA Using Inherently Regularized Iterative SENSE
Model-Based Reconstruction for Cardiac Cine MRI Without ECG or Breath Holding
Whole-Heart Imaging Using Undersampled Radial Phase Encoding (RPE) and Iterative Sensitivity Encoding (SENSE) Reconstruction
Motion estimation applied to reconstruct undersampled dynamic MRI
Reconstruction of undersampled dynamic images by modeling the motion of object elements
Reconstruction of undersampled dynamic images by modeling the motion of object elements

ConferencePaper (1)

Motion estimation applied to reconstruct undersampled dynamic MRI

Proyecto (17)

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Smart Medical Imaging at King's College London and Imperial College London
Gadolinium-free multi-contrast 3D whole-heart MRI for improved management of patients with congenital heart disease
A Framework for Efficient Synergistic Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of PET-MR Dynamic Data
EPSRC Multidimensional and Multiparametric Quantitative Cardiac MRI from Continuous Free-Breathing Acquisition
EPSRC SmartHeart: Next-generation cardiovascular healthcare via integrated image acquisition, reconstruction, analysis and learning
FREE BREATHING 3D CARDIAC MULTIPARAMETRIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE FINGERPRINTING
Motion Corrected Reconstruction for 3D Cardiac Simultaneous PET-MR imaging: Towards Efficient Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease
Accelerated 3D Cardiac Functional Assessment using Cardiac Self-gating and Undersampled Respiratory Motion Compensation Techniques
Computational Collaborative Project in Synergistic PET-MR Reconstruction
PET-MR Motion Correction Based Purely on Routine Clinical Scans
Simultaneous PET-MR Modeling and Reconstruction for Imaging Brain Disorders
3D Free-breathing MRI with High Scan Efficiency for Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease=> Combining Acceleration and Motion Correction Techniques
DEVELOPMENT OF CONTRAST-FREE MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY AND TISSUE PERFUSION TECHNIQUES
Latin American MR e-learning Platform
HIGHLY EFFICIENT RESPIRATORY MOTION COMPENSATION FOR CORONARY MR ANGIOGRAPHY
Towards Reliable Diffusion MRI of Moving Organs
Intelligent Imaging=> Motion, Form and Function Across Scale

Review (1)

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting: Technical Developments and Initial Clinical Validation
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Claudia Prieto

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

36
Rene Botnar

Full Professor

Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile

8
Pablo Irarrazaval

Professor

Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

8
Sergio Uribe

Associated professor

Radiology

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA

Santiago, Chile

4
Cristian Tejos

Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

3
Marcelo Andia

Associate Professor

Radiology

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Carlos Milovic

Profesor Asociado

Escuela de Ingenieria Electrica

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Carlos Lizama

Full Professor

Matematica y Ciencia de la Computación

UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
JUAN URBINA

Médico - Radiólogo

Radiología

Complejo Asistencial Dr Sótero del Río

Santiago, Chile

1
Carlos Sing-Long

Assistant Professor

Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Cristóbal Arrieta

Associate Professor

Faculty of Engineering

Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Santiago, Chile

1
Marcelo Guarini

Profesor Titular

Universidad de los Andes

Santiago, Chile