Dr. Enrique Carrera

ENRIQUE V. CARRERA (M’07–SM’18) was born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1968. He received his BE degree in electronic engineering from the Armed Forces University–ESPE, Ecuador, in 1992, and his MS degree in electrical engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1996. In 1999, he received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a visiting scholar in 1999 at the University of Rochester, USA. From 2000 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, USA. Dr. Carrera was also an associate professor at the University San Francisco of Quito, Ecuador, from 2004 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been a full professor at the Armed Forces University–ESPE, Ecuador. He has also collaborated as an external professor at King Juan Carlos University, Spain, since 2014. Currently, he has an appointment as a Distinguished Visitor at the IEEE Computer Society. Dr. Carrera has participated in approximately 20 research projects, holds more than 90 scientific publications in recognized journals and conferences, with roughly 2600 citations. His main research areas include signal processing and computational intelligence.