The following is a summarized version of my curriculum vitae. A detailed version is available in PDF upon request.

Employment and career

Apr 2019	-	present	Full Professor Department of Informatics and Computing Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Manizales
Oct 2011	-	Apr 2019	Associate Professor Department of Informatics and Computing Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Manizales
Aug 2009	-	Oct 2011	Assistant Professor Department of Informatics and Computing Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales
Jul 2010	-	Jan 2011	Head of the Department Department of Informatics and Computing Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales
Aug 2008	-	Aug 2009	Auxiliar Professor Department of Informatics and Computing Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales
Aug 2008	-	present	Tenure-track teaching and research position, full time and exclusive dedication Department of Informatics and Computing Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales
Feb 2007	-	Aug 2007	Research Fellow Information and Communication Theory Group Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Education

Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Manizales:

Aug 2005	-	Dec 2008	Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering Doctoral student in Engineering - Automatics
		Oct 2008	Doctoral thesis: Generalized dissimilarity Representations for Pattern Recognition Supervisor: Prof. César Germán Castellanos-Domínguez
Aug 2003	-	Jun 2005	Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering Master's student in Engineering - Industrial Automation
		May 2005	M.Eng. Thesis in Industrial Automation: Selección efectiva de características wavelet en el reconocimiento automático de bioseñales Supervisor: Prof. César Germán Castellanos-Domínguez
Feb 1998	-	Jun 2003	Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering Undergraduate student in Electronic Engineering
		May 2003	Undergraduate thesis in Electronic Engineering: Clasificación de Arritmias Cardíacas usando Transformada Wavelet y Técnicas de Reconocimiento de Patrones Supervisor: Prof. César Germán Castellanos-Domínguez

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands:

Feb 2006

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Apr 2006

Visiting Ph.D. student Information and Communication theory Group Supervisor: Dr.ir. Robert P.W. Duin

Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Cuba:

Nov 2002

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Dec 2002

Visiting undergraduate student Centro de Estudios de Electrónica y Tecnologías de la Información Supervisor: Prof. Rubén Orozco Morales

Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora (Colseñora), Manizales:

		Dec 1997	Secondary School Diploma
Feb 1992	-	Nov 1997	Student of Secondary School
Feb 1987	-	Nov 1991	Student of Primary School

Distinctions, awards and scholarships

		Aug 2013	Faculty Meritorious Academia Annual Faculty and University Distinctions Universidad Nacional de Colombia - de Manizales
		Sep 2011	Faculty Meritorious Research Annual Faculty and University Distinctions Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales
		Dec 2008	Meritorious doctoral thesis Generalized dissimilarity representations for pattern recognition Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales
Feb 2007	-	Aug 2007	Research grant TU Delft Grants program Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Aug 2005	-	Aug 2008	Scholarship for doctoral studies "Estudiantes sobresalientes de postgrado" scholarship program Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Aug 2003	-	Aug 2005	Scholarship for master's studies "Académicos en formación" scholarship program Universidad Nacional de Colombia
		May 2003	Meritorious undergraduate project Clasificación de arritmias cardíacas usando transformada wavelet y técnicas de reconocimiento de patrones Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales
Feb 1998	-	Dec 2002	Scholarship for undergraduate studies "Bachilleres por Colombia" scholarship program Colombian Petroleum Company (ECOPETROL)
Feb 1998	-	Dec 2002	Forgivable loan for undergraduate studies Loan program for Andrés Bello Distinguished secondary-school graduates Colombian Institute of Educational Credit and Technical Studies Abroad (ICETEX)
		Dec 1997	Andrés Bello Distinction. National category Andrés Bello Distinctions for secondary-school graduates Colombian Institute for the Promotion of Higher Education (ICFES)
		Dec 1997	Andrés Bello Distinction. Departmental category Andrés Bello Distinctions for secondary-school graduates Colombian Institute for the Promotion of Higher Education (ICFES)
		Dec 1997	Andrés Bello Distinction. Municipal category Andrés Bello Distinctions for secondary-school graduates Colombian Institute for the Promotion of Higher Education (ICFES)

Memberships and professional service

Memberships:

• IAPR technical committee on Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques

Reviewer for journals:

• Pattern Recognition
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• Pattern Analysis and Applications
• Soft Computing
• International Journal of Power and Energy Systems
• Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
• Ingeniería y Ciencia - Universidad EAFIT

Member of journal editorial committees:

• Editorial Committee, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture: Apr 2012 - present
  Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Manizales
• Tecnológicas: Jan 2009 - Dec 2009

Referee for awards:

• Best Graduation Projects Awards "Otto de Greiff"