Research Professor

Dr. Vidya Manian

Received the BE degree in Electrical Engineering from A. C. College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, India in 1990, MS in Electrical Engineering in 1995, and PhD in Computing, Information Science and Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez in 2004. She was a visiting scholar at West Virginia University, Morgantown in 2005. Since 2006 she is a faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering at UPRM. Her research interest includes machine learning, hyperspectral imaging, bioinformatics, and remote sensing. She has about 20 refereed journal publications and 50 conference publications. She has been the recipient of the Excellence in Education award from the first lady of Puerto Rico in 2013, the Distinguished Professor of Research award in 2014, and the Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015 and 2022.

M. S. Students

Carlos Julian Delgado

is a Master’s student in Electrical Engineering. He has a bachelor in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and a specialization in Software Development Processes. His areas of interest are Digital Signal Processing, Machine learning, Time series prediction, and Microgrids.

Nichool Natalia Castañeda Tabares

is a MS student in Scientific computing at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Universidad del Valle-Colombia in 2020. Her research areas of interest is artificial intelligence and machine learning applied biomedical imaging.

Yisel Natalia Sánchez Encinales

is a Master’s student in applied mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez. She got her Bachelor’s degree in mathematics with emphasis in statistics from Universidad de Tolima-Colombia in 2021. Her areas of interest are machine learning, artificial intelligence and image processing.

Kelly J. Tamayo Zapata

Ph. D. Students

Estefania Alfaro Mejia

is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). She has a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Universidad del Quindio-Colombia in 2015 and a master’s degree in Engineering from Universidad del Valle-Colombia in 2019. Her areas of interest are image processing, signal processing, machine learning, and deep learning. She is working on improving the performance of spectral unmixing for endmembers extraction using deep learning architectures.

Anibal Romney (Member, IEEE)

Received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), Mayagüez, PR, USA, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering. In 2012, he became a Full Professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla. His research interests include machine learning, molecular biology, neuroscience, biosensors, and robotics. In 2001, he was awarded the NSF grant in communications and information technologies. As a Co-PI of a three-year project, he has enhance the preparation of underserved students for employment in the fields of manufacturing communications and information technologies industries.

Jairo Orozco Sandoval

is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). He has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Universidad del Atlántico Barranquilla-Colombia in 2016 and a master’s degree in Physics from UPRM in 2019. His areas of interest are signal processing, patter recognition, machine learning and condensed matter physics. He has 5 refereed journal publications in machine learning.

Victor Diaz

is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). He has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras in 2015 and a master’s degree in Mathematics from University of Puerto Rico in 2019. His research interests are differential equations, hyperspectral image processing, and deep learning.

Jaime Yeckle

received the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), PR, and the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Antenor Orrego University, Peru. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UPRM, Puerto Rico. Also, He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. His research interests include machine learning, biomedical signal processing, and automatic sleep staging.

Kevin A García-Gallardo

is a Colombian Physicist, and Ph.D. student in University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) in the Electrical Engineering program. He is broadly interested in Deep Learning Methods, Image Processing, and Signal Processing. His dissertation studies are focused on Image Segmentation with Graph Convolutional Networks. García holds a Master of Science Degree in Physics from UPRM, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from “Universidad del Atlántico” in Barranquilla, Colombia.