Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate
E-mail
Building
Sant Jaume Hilari
Address
C. Quatre Camins 30, 08022, Barcelona
Floor
2
Section
Department of Engineering
Computer Vision
Position
Professor
Academic Background
- PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2015).
- Master’s Degree in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2011).
- Electronic Engineering, National University of Colombia (2010).
Teaching Activity
- PIF Research Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2011–2015), teaching in the areas of computer engineering (Databases, Software Engineering) and image processing (Computer Vision).
- Full-time lecturer at La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull since 2017, teaching in the areas of applied mathematics for engineering (Algebra), digital electronics (Introduction to Computers), and image processing (Computer Vision). He has supervised more than 20 Bachelor’s and Master’s theses.
- Academic Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering of Telecommunications (Minor in Robotics) – Universitat Ramon Llull (since 2023).
Research and Knowledge Transfer Activity
- His research focuses on computer vision, artificial intelligence, multimodal information processing, and statistical data analysis, and their application to generating technological solutions and validating hypotheses in the fields of biology and medicine.
- Member of the ADAS research group at the Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
- Member of the Computer Vision research line within the Human-Environment Research (HER) group at La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull.
- Author or co-author of more than 30 publications in international journals and conferences.
- He has participated in multiple interdisciplinary research and technology transfer projects funded by organizations such as the European Union, the Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation, the Agency for University and Research Grants, and the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation.
Awards
- PIF Scholarship (Research Personnel in Training) – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2011).
- Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2015).
Academic Links
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lF3Jz2AAAAAJ&hl=en