Work

I am an Associate Professor (Profesor Principal I) working at the “Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas – ESPE” in Ecuador, Sangolquí – Main campus. I belong to the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering – DEEE, where I teach master and undergrad courses, and conduct research in Embedded Systems and other fields. Currently, I also coordinate the area of Digital Systems.

Research

My research is mainly focused on Heterogeneous Embedded Systems and the design of Cognitive Systems-on-Chips and IP-cores. Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing is the primary enabler of my research. Other close related topics are High-Performance Computing, Multi/Many-core Processors and Programming, Autonomic and Self-adaptive Systems, Fault-tolerant Systems, High-level Synthesis, and Machine Learning.

Education

My research as a Ph.D. student was conducted at the Electronic and Embedded Systems (ESY) department of the School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. I received my Ph.D. degree (Doctor of Philosophy) in the area of Electronic and Computer Systems, in January 2016. The actual result of my doctoral studies can be better understood in my publications and in my thesis entitled “Cognitive and Self-Adaptive SoCs with Self-Healing Run-Time-Reconfigurable RecoBlocks.”

Partial and Run-time Reconfiguration in Embedded Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) was the central topic and enabler of my investigation during the last five years. However, my work has been inspired by and gradually connected to my other research interests such as IP-core design, dependability, fault tolerance, hardware acceleration, autonomic and organic computing, self-healing, self-awareness, self-adaptation, and machine (reinforcement) learning.

I worked under the main supervision of Ingo Sander, and co-supervision of Johnny Öberg.