
Miguel Ernesto Figueroa Toro
Profesor Titular
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile
Embedded image and video processing, smart cameras, high-performance computing, hardware accelerators, network traffic analysis and anomaly detection, reconfigurable computing, very-large scale integration systems
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Computer Science & Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-SEATTLE. Estados Unidos, 2005
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Computer Science & Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-SEATTLE. Estados Unidos, 1999
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Ciencias de la Ingeniería con Mención en Ingeniería Eléctrica, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 1997
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Ingeniero Civil Electrónico, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 1990
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Ciencias de la Ingeniería Electrónica, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 1988
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Profesor Titular Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION
Facultad de Ingeniería
Chile
1994 - A la fecha
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Instructor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION
Facultad de Ingeniería
Chile
1992 - 1993
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Analog Design Engineer Part Time
Impinj, Inc.
Seattle, WA, Estados Unidos
2001 - 2002
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Ingeniero de software Full Time
Sonda Automatización S.A.
Santiago, Chile
1993 - 1994
Past Ph. D. students (Electrical Engineering program at Universidad de Concepción)
- Bárbaro López-Portilla (graduated 2024) "Vision circuit architecture with on-chip spatial window operations"
- Christian Vega (graduated 2023) "Explicit feedback congestion control in Science DMZ cyberinfrastructures based on programmable data-plane switches"
- Javier Soto (graduated 2023) "Algorithms and architectures for genomic similarity computation on hardware accelerators" (in Spanish)
- Wladimir Valenzuela (graduated 2022) "Intelligent Image Sensor for Heterogeneous Smart Camera Architectures"
- Gonzalo Carvajal (graduated 2013) "Network devices for hard real-time communication on switched Ethernet"
Current Ph,D. students (Electrical Engineering program at Universidad de Concepción)
- Juan Felipe González (estimated graduation 2025)
- Yaime Fernández (estimated graduation 2025)
- Carolina Gallardo (estimated graduation 2029)
Past Master's students (Electrical Engineering program at Universidad de Concepción)
- Álvaro Guzmán (graduated 2025) "Selection Criteria based on sketches for the genomic similitude problem" (in Spanish)
- Paulo Ubisse (graduated 2021) "Hardware acceleration for empirical entropy estimation using sketches" (in Spanish)
- Ignacio Pérez (graduated 2021) "Hardware acceleration for inference in convolutional neural networks" (in Spanish)
- Pablo Verdugo (graduated 2020) "High-level synthesis of architectures for video processing" (in Spanish)
- Silvana Díaz (graduated 2019) "Instrument for the early screening of skin cancer based on multimodal images"
- Antonio Saavedra (graduated 2018) "Hardware acceleration for emergent motif mining in DNA sequence streams" (in Spanish)
- Javier Cárdenas (graduated 2018) "Multimodal image registration of VIS, SWIR and LWIR images" (in Spanish)
- Luis Araneda (graduated 2016) "Model and heterogeneous computing framework for infrared video" (in Spanish)
- Wladimir Valenzuela (graduated 2016) "Nonuniformity correction, super resolution and stabilization in infrared microscopy images" (in Spanish)
- Javier Soto (graduated 2016) "Face detection and recognition in infrared images on special-purpose hardware" (in Spanish)
- Nicole Ávila (graduated 2015) "Fast segmentation of white-matter fibers" (in Spanish)
- Alejandro Wolf (graduated 2015) "Nonuniformity correction and thermal stabilization of infrared microbolometers" (in Spanish)
- Rodolfo Redlich (graduated 2014) "Special-purpose hardware for real-time image processing" (in Spanish)
- Waldo Valenzuela (graduated 2009) "A study of Principal Component Analysis and its implementation in VLSI" (in Spanish)
- Gonzalo Carvajal (graduated 2009) "Linear subspace methods in analog VLSI applied to face recognition" (in Spanish)
Current Master's students (Electrical Engineering program at Universidad de Concepción)
- Carolina Gallardo (estimated graduation 2025)
Past undergraduate students (Electronics Engineering and Biomedical Engineering programs at Universidad de Concepción, only graduated from 2014 to date)
- Carolina Gallardo (graduated 2024) "Acelerador hardware para estimación de cuantiles en tráfico de redes"
- Sofía Vera (graduated 2023) "Acelerador hardware para estimación de entropía de tráfico de red utilizando estimaciones de su distribución"
- Basthian Sánchez (graduated 2023) "Sistema de visión artificial para cajeros de autoservicio"
- Diego Rebolledo (graduated 2023) "Plataforma móvil de identificación y localización de contenedores utilizando visión por computadora"
- Mónica Venegas (graduated 2023) "Control de fase de interferómetro en fibra óptica multi-núcleo utilizando FPGA"
- Jaime Palacios (graduated 2022) "Back-End Digital para Radiómetros de Vapor de Agua de Pseudo-Correlación"
- Joaquín Lomas (graduated 2021) "Estación de monitoreo de calidad del aire con sensores de bajo costo"
- Matías Espinoza (graduated 2020) "Integración de dispositivos Zigbee a plataforma de domótica"
- Joaquín Ureña (graduated 2020) "Diseño de parlante inteligente Alexa para la asistencia a la tercera edad"
- Eric Cabrera (graduated 2020) "Realidad aumentada con fines turísticos utilizando smartphones"
- Camila Quintanilla (graduated 2019) "Sistema embebido para la detección de vehículos en estacionamientos inteligentes"
- Nicolás Sánchez (graduated 2019) "Sistema de control de un mini dron cuadricóptero"
- Thomas Krohmer (graduated 2019) "Acelerador hardware para clustering de datos usando funciones hash"
- Ignacio Pérez (graduated 2019) "Emulador de redes neuronales celulares sobre un FPGA"
- Wladimir Aburto (graduated 2018) "Diseño e implementación del firmware de un sistema embebido para el control de iluminación en un supermercado"
- Ignacio Vargas (graduated 2017) "Plataforma de desarrollo para sistemas heterogéneos de procesamiento de video"
- Silvana Díaz (graduated 2017) "Segmentación de imágenes para un dispositivo semi-automático de apoyo a la detección temprana de cáncer a la piel"
- Antonio Saavedra (graduated 2017) "Acelerador hardware para clasificación de rostros basado en sensado compresivo"
- Pablo Verdugo (graduated 2017) "Corrección en tiempo real de video Full-HD de eventos deportivos con alto contraste de iluminación"
- Fabián Inostroza (graduated 2016) "Registro de imágenes sobre video multimodal en tiempo real"
- Javier Cárdenas (graduated 2015) "Inspección de calidad de frutas en tiempo real basado en imágenes hiperespectrales"
- Wladimir Valenzuela (graduated 2015) "Implementación en hardware de algoritmo reductor de striping noise en imágenes hiperespectrales"
- Javier Soto (graduated 2015) "Detección de rostros en video infrarrojo en tiempo real"
Patents and Transfer
- Patent: John D. Hyde, Miguel E. Figueroa, Todd E. Humes, Cristopher J. Diorio, Terry D. Hass, and Chad A. Lindhorst, “Apparatus for Trimming a Digital to Analog Converter,” US Patent 8,102,007 B1. Status: Granted, Publication date: January 24, 2012, USA.
- Patent: John D. Hyde, Miguel E. Figueroa, Todd E. Humes, Cristopher J. Diorio, Terry D. Hass, and Chad A. Lindhorst, “Method and Apparatus for Trimming a Digital to Analog Converter,” US Patent 6,664,909 B1. Status: Granted, Publication date: December 16, 2003, USA.
- Consultant for technology companies in Chile (2004 - to date).
Invited talks and keynote addresses
- Invited talk “Hardware accelerators for streaming algorithms using sketches,” Department of Integrated Information Technology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States, April 24, 2024
- Invited talk “Sketch-based algorithms and hardware acceleration,” Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, March 24, 2023.
- Invited talk “Hardware acceleration with streaming algorithms,” International Symposium on Communication Technologies for Earthquake Disasters (on line), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, November 6, 2022.
- Invited talk “Embedded camera architectures with on-sensor feature extraction,” Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, June 25, 2018.
- Invited talk “Special-purpose architectures for high-performance video processing and computer vision in smart infrared cameras,” Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, June 2, 2016.
- Invited talk “Special-purpose architectures for high-performance video processing and computer vision in smart infrared cameras,” Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, June 1, 2016.
- Keynote address, 7th Summer School on Integrated Circuit Design, “High-performance embedded digital systems for infrared video processing,” Concepción, Chile, January 13, 2016.
- Keynote address, Summer School on Computational Intelligence, “Learning systems in CMOS VLSI with local adaptation,” Concepción, Chile, December 1, 2015.
- Invited talk, 2nd Summer School on Integrated Circuit Design, “Current research by the VLSI group at Universidad de Concepción,” Santiago, Chile, January 14, 2010.
- Keynote address, International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, “Adaptive systems in CMOS floating-gate technology,” September 12, 2006, Veracruz, Mexico.
Press
- Press articles, newspapers El Sur and El Mercurio.
- Radio interview, Citoyens, Radio Universidad de Chile, 2015.
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Outstanding paper award
Euromicro
Alemania, 2020
Outstanding paper award at 23th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD): Architectures, Methods & Tools
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Best paper award
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Brasil, 2012
Best paper award at IEEE Southern Programmable Logic Conference (SPL 2012)
Apparatus for Trimming a Digital to Analog Converter |
Method and Apparatus for Trimming a Digital to Analog Converter |
Modern development methods and tools for embedded reconfigurable systems: A survey |

Miguel Figueroa
Profesor Titular
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile

Gonzalo Carvajal
Assistant Professor
Electronics
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Valparaiso, Chile

Gonzalo Carvajal
Assistant Professor
Electronics
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Valparaiso, Chile

Sebastian Godoy
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION
Concepción, Chile

Yasmany Prieto
Académico
Informática
Universidad Católica de la Santisima Concepción
Concepción, Chile

Gabriel Saavedra
Profesor asociado
Departamento de ingeniería electrica
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile

Jaime Cariñe
Profesor Asistente
Ingeniería Eléctrica
Universidad Católica de la Santisima Concepción
Concepcion, Chile

Javier Muñoz
Profesor Titular
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica
UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA, FACULTAD DE INGENIERIA, DEPTO. TECNOLOGÍAS INDUSTRIALES
Curicó, Chile

Carlos Baier
Profesor Asociado
Departamento de Electromecánica y Conversión de Energía
Universidad de Talca
CURICO, Chile

Pedro Melin
Profesor Asociado
Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica
Universidad del Bio-Bio
Concepcion, Chile

Pablo Meza
Associate Professor
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA
Temuco, Chile

Guilherme Xavier
Assistant Profesor
Electrical Engineering
Univerisidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile

Wagner Ramírez
Postdoctoral Reseacher
Departament of Antennas and Circuits
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Helsinki, Finlandia