Dr. Ruber Hernández-García is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Católica del Maule. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas and two Postdocs at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Universidad Católica del Maule. He recently led the ANID FONDECYT Iniciación and ANID FONDECYT Regular projects. He has published more than 30 papers in various international journals and conferences and serves as Secretary of the Chilean Association of Pattern Recognition and as General Chair of the Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition. His research areas include Pattern Recognition, Biometrics, and Computer Vision.