Founding Members
Miguel Martín-Landrove
Experimental Physics, 1976; Master in Science, Physics, 1985; Doctor in Science, Molecular Physics, 1987, Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Magnetic resonance applications to medicine, medical imaging processing, tissue classification, fractal analysis and complexity, tumor growth modelling, alternative cancer therapies. Curator of Project Virtual Tumor Cancer in silico and Alternative Cancer Therapies and of Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy on the social curation platform Scoop.it!. Works at the Center for Molecular and Medical Physics and the Center for Medical Visualization, National Institute for Bioengineering, Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Rafael Martín-Landrove
Theoretical Physics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1975; Master in Science, Physics, IVIC, 1978; PhD, Nuclear Physics, MIT, 1984.
Physics and Medical Physics: Radiation physics and dosimetry, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics and radiobiology. Inverse problems in nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry and applications to porous media and medical physics. Numerical methods and simulation. Works at Center for Molecular and Medical Physics and Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics, Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Wuilian Torres
Electronics, TSU, IUT, 1972; Third Cycle Doctorate, Signal Processing, Université de Rennes, 1979
Center for Digital Image Processing, Institute for Engineering and Graphical Computing and Applied Geometry Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Research interests in digital image processing applied to pattern recognition, remote sensing and medical imaging.
Marianela Lentini
Mathematics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1972; PhD, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech, 1978.
José Alvarez-Cornett
Theoretical Physics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1981; Graduate studies in Geosciences, UC, Berkeley; MBA, University of Southern California, 2000.
Professionally, I have worked as a field geophysicist and a manager for several Oil & Gas companies and have also held business managing positions within the software industry. I have experience with inversion technologies and managing high-performing technological teams. I am interested in applications of Statistical Mechanics to biomedical processes. Recently, I have developed interest in the mathematical modeling of physiological systems.
Marco Paluszny Kluczynsky
Mathematics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1974; PhD, Geometry, UC, San Diego, 1977.
Department of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín. Extraction of emergent patterns on large time series, such as long time electrocardiograms. Extraction of texture information from volume medical images along slices that can be flattened isometrically-
Gabriel Padilla León
Mathematics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1998; Doctor in Science, Mathematics, Universidad Central de Venezuela and Université D'Artois, 2004.
Department of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Research interests in mathematical morphology and tumor segmentation of medical images, pure and applied geometry; Ramsey spaces, countable random structures, transformation groups.
Francisco Torres Hoyos
Mathematics and Physics, Universidad de Córdoba, 1989; Master in Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá), 2002; Doctor in Physics, Universidad Simón Bolívar, 2012.
Department of Physics, Universidad de Córdoba, Montería. Colombia. Research interests in medical physics and tumor growth.
Giovanni Figueroa
Mathematics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1997.
Department of Mathematics and Graphical Computing and Applied Geometry Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Research interests in mathematical applications in applied sciences.
Antonio Rueda Toicen
Computer Science, 2013.
MSc in Bioengineering, 2017, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Specialized in Computer Graphics, he has worked as a researcher, developer, trainer, technical writer, and translator for a variety of companies. He is currently finishing his Master's Degree in Bioengineering at Instituto Nacional de Bioingeniería (INABIO), and contributing as teaching assistant to ItBit.org's Computational Biology MOOC. His research interests are in computer vision, machine learning, information theory, and complex systems applied to biomedical and remote sensing tasks.
