Oscar Ruiz-Salguero

Prof. Oscar Ruiz-Salguero

Universidad EAFIT
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Biography

Emeritus Professor Oscar Eduardo Ruiz-Salguero (born Tunja, Colombia) obtained a B.Sc. Mechanical Eng. (1983) and Computer Science (1987) degrees from Los Andes University, Bogota, Colombia. Later, he earned a M.Sc. (emphasis CAM, 1991) and a Ph.D. (emphasis CAD, 1995) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Dr. Ruiz-Salguero has held Visiting Researcher positions at Ford Motor Co. (USA), Fraunhofer Inst. Graphische Datenverarbeitung (Germany), University of Vigo (Spain), Max Planck Institute fur Informatik (Germany) and Purdue University (USA). During 1996-2023, Prof. Ruiz-Salguero acted as Faculty of the Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science Depts. at EAFIT University, Colombia. He was Founder and Coordinator of the CAD CAM CAE Laboratory Group – EAFIT. In this capacity, Prof. Ruiz-Salguero earned, up to his retirement time, the Colombian Ministry of Sciences Senior Investigator Distinction and top rankings (A1) for his research group. Currently, Emeritus Prof. Oscar Ruiz Salguero continues recruiting, training, and supervising young research talents for technology companies/institutions in the domains of Computational Geometry applied to Design, Manufacturing, Computer Graphics, Medical Imaging, Computational Mechanics, Geometric Reasoning, and Scientific Data Visualization.

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