Rodrigo Verschae
Associate Professor
Universidad de O'Higgins
Rancagua, Chile
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, Intelligent Systems, Coordination, Remote Sensing, Proximal Sensing
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Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
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Applied Mathematics, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan. Francia, 2006
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Electrical Engineer, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2003
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Computer Engineer, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2002
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Electrical Engineer, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2001
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Assistant Professor Full Time
KYOTO UNIVERSITY
Kyoto, Japón
2015 - 2017
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Associate Professor Full Time
Universidad de O'Higgins
Institute of Engineering Sciences
Rancagua, Chile
2019 - A la fecha
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Assistant Professor Full Time
Universidad de O'Higgins
Institute of Engineering Sciences
Rancagua, Chile
2018 - 2019
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Director Full Time
Universidad de O'Higgins
Institute of Engineering Sciences
Rancagua, Chile
2020 - A la fecha
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Research Fellow Full Time
KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Network Design Research Center (NDRC)
Japón
2009 - 2010
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Postdoc Full Time
KYOTO UNIVERSITY
Graduate School of Informatics
Japón
2013 - 2014
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Postdoc (Fondecyt) Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Chile
2012 - 2013
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Director PAR Explora, O'Higgins Other
Universidad de O'Higgins
Chile
2019 - A la fecha
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Associated Researcher Part Time
Fraunhofer IPK
Berlin, Alemania
2004 - 2005
Doctor Thesis:
- MANTAU Aprinaldi Bin Jasa, Reviewing Doctor Thesis committee, *Kyushu Institute of Technology*, Japan 2023
MSc/MTI Completed Works:
- Jose Astorga (co-advisor, University of Chile, On-going)
- Ignacio Bugueno (co-advisor, University of Chile, On-going)
- Jose Dias Villa (Thesis Committee member, University of Chile, 2024)
- Luis Cossio Montefinale (co-advisor, University of Chile, 2023)
- Robert Araya (Thesis Committee member, University of Chile, 2023)
- Paolo Morales (Thesis Committee member, University of Chile, 2020)
- Bastian Salinas (Thesis Committee member, University of Chile, 2019)
- Francisco Arriola (Thesis Committee member University of Chile, 2019)
- Pedro Orellana (Thesis Committee member, University of Chile; 2019)
- Maximiliano Rojas (Thesis Committee member University of Chile; 2018)
- Chihiro Nakatsuka (Master student; Kyoto University, 2016 - 2017)
- Li Li (Master student; Kyoto University, 2016 - 2017)
- Zhe Chen (Master; Kyoto University, 2016 - 2017)
- Tatsuya Suzuki (Master student; Kyoto University, 2015 - 2016)
- P. Berg (External Review, Gjovik University, Norway, 2011)
- P. Clark (External Review, Gjovik University, Norway, 2012)
- J. Kittilsen (External Review, Gjovik University, Norway, 2012)
- Matias Arena (Co-guided, University of Chile; 2009)
- Oscar Sanhueza (Co-guided, University of Chile; 2008)
- Hardy Franke (Co-guided, University of Chile, 2007)
MSc/MTI Ongoing Works:
- Luis Cossio (Co-guided with Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, from 2021)
- Jose Astorga (Co-guided with Iván Sipirán, Universidad de Chile, from 2021)
- Paulo Morales (Co-guided with Jose del Piano, Universidad de los Andes, from 2020)
Co-guided (Informal)
- Dr. Mauricio Correa (Co-guided with Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile)
- Dr. Gabriel Hermosilla (Co-guided with Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile)
- Dr. Jose del Piano (Co-guided with Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile)
- 2024: General Chair of the LACORO International Summer School on Robotics
- 2018 - 2021: Co-organizer of round tables to discuss about Chilean challenges and development in Robotics. Together with the Chilean Parlament Library and the Chile-Japan Inter-parlament group.
- 2019: General Chair of the IEEE RAS International Summer School on Robot Vision
- 2019 & 2021: Lecturer of the AI in Robotics course at Universidad de Chile (Certification on AI for professionals)
- 2020 - present: IEEE RAS Education Committee, Co-Chair
- 2018 - present: MDPI Journal [SCI](http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sci/editors), Advisory Board
- 2017 - present: MDPI Journal [Information](http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/editors), **Editorial Board**
- 2015 - present: Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Specialty section on Frontiers in Robotics and AI), Associate Editor
- 2015 - 2016: Human safety and comfort in human-robot shared workspaces, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Research Topic Co-editor
- 2010-2011: ETHICAL project
- FP7 project of the European Commission for “Promoting International Debate on Ethical Implications of Data Collection, use and retention for Biometric and Medical Applications”.
- Participation: Part of the Universidad de Chile working group (attended several project’s meetings, in charge of one of the deliverables, etc).
- 2005 - 2006: FaceQS-Tool
- Design and development of a Face Detector, an Eye Detector, and a Pose Estimator.
- Software licensed to the Fraunhofer-IPK Institute, Berlin, and to the Federal German printing office for their e-passport production system.
- Research and development done at Universidad de Chile.
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Best poster award, IEEE RAS Poster competition
IEEE RAS
Chile, 2007
1st place award *IEEE RAS Poster competition*, LA Summer School on Robotics, Chile - Title: "Detection of AIBO and Humanoid Robots using Boosted Cascades". - Joint work with Matias Arenas.
Thermal face recognition in unconstrained environments using histograms of LBP features |
Sistema de gestión pedagógica para el aula matemática con base en juegos y recomendaciones inteligentes |
Transferencia y adopción de tecnologías para la gestión de riesgo en cerezas: hacia una Agricultura de Precisión para la Región de O’Higgins |
Image Modeling and Process for Remote SenSing in agriculture (IMPRESS) |
First Japan-Chile Symposium in Field Robotics |
IEEE RAS International Summer School on Deep Learning for Robot Vision |
PAR Explora O'HIGGINS - VIII Concurso Proyecto Asociativo Regional de Divulgación y Valoración Científica y Tecnológica Explora 2019-2022 – EXPLORA |
Proyecto Asociativo Region (PAR) Explora, Region de O'Higgins |
Intelligent and Robotic Systems for Individual Plant Monitoring in Crop Biometric Maps |
Sistema de Cómputo para Deep Learning basado en Cluster NVIDIA DGX-1 |
Prediction of photovoltaic generation from sky images |
Aqua Vision=> Modeling of Underwater Ray Space Formed by Group of Cameras and Projectors and its Application |
Construction and demonstration community nano-grid based on `i-energy’ |
BOOSTING LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR MULTICLASS CLASSIFICATION AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL REGRESSION=> APPLICATIONS TO OBJECT DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION |
Postdoctoral research visit fellowship |
Doctorado Nacional, Programa de Formación de Capital Humano Avanzado |