Dr. Rafael Palacios Hielscher

Areas of interest:

Advanced data analysis (including vibration analysis, optical handwritten character recognition, image processing, artificial intelligence and data mining). Parallel processing. Thermoelectric applications. Failure detection and maintenance. Aviation safety.

Biography:

Was graduated with the degree in Mechanical Engineer in 1990 from the school of Industrial engineering (ICAI), Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He is currently working at the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica as researcher and teaching at ICAI. He finished the PhD in 1998, writing a thesis on Incipient failure detection. His main research interests include failure detection, diagnosis, vibration analysis, optical handwritten character recognition, image processing, etc.2011- Head of the Programs in Telecommunications Engineering and Computer Science at Comillas-ICAI.2009-2010 Visiting Professor. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aeronautics and Astronautics Department.2001-2002 Visiting Scholar. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sloan School of Management.