Dr. Osslan Osiris Vergara Villegas

Osslan Osiris Vergara Villegas was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, on July 3, 1977. He earned a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Zacatepec, Mexico, in 2000; an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the Center of Research and Technological Development (CENIDET) in 2003; and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from CENIDET in 2006. He is a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, where he heads the Computer Vision and Augmented Reality laboratory. Prof. Vergara is a level-one member of the Mexican National Research System. He serves several peer-reviewed international journals and conferences as an editorial board member and reviewer. He has co-authored over 100 book chapters, journals, and international conference papers. Vergara has directed more than 50 B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. theses. He is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the Mexican Computing Academy. His fields of interest include pattern recognition, digital image processing, augmented reality, and mechatronics.