Ruben Medina (Senior Member. IEEE) earned an electrical engineering degree at the University of Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela in 1981; in 1988 he earned a master’s degree in Electronic Engineering at the University Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela; in 1998 he earned the title of Doctor in Signal Processing and Telecommunications at the University of Rennes 1 in France. He is a full professor at the Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela. He is a co-founder of the Biomedical Engineering Group (GIBULA) and the Graduate program in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Los Andes. He is also co-founder of the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine (CIByTEL). He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the co-author of over 80 publications in national and international conferences and journals.