Leonardo Fabián Rentería Bustamante is a Ph.D. and Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo (UNACH), Ecuador, within the Faculty of Engineering and the Telecommunications Engineering program. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Ecuador, in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree in Research in Science and Technology of Complex Systems from the University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy, in 2017. His academic and professional experience includes teaching and research positions at UTPL, University of Calabria, and UNACH, where he has taught courses in programming, embedded systems, analog electronics, electronic circuits, and digital systems. He also served as a Technological Volunteer at the Institute of Robotics for Dependency in Barcelona, Spain, developing interactive applications for the humanoid robots Pepper and NAO (SoftBank Robotics) for rehabilitation tasks aimed at users with intellectual disabilities at the Ave María Foundation. His research interests include interactive robotics, FPGA-based applications, microcontroller programming, wireless networks, remote laboratories, embedded systems, and inclusive technologies. He was the winner of the HUB ITT Centro Entrepreneurship Competition 2023.
Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo
Riobamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador
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