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Summary

More than 7 years of experience in Speech Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Statistics and Software Development.

Professional Experience

Postdoc Researcher (Affective Computing) – VUB, Brussels, Belgium October 2015– March 2016

Responsible for the speech emotion recognition team

Delivered an innovative methodology to predict emotion dimensions from speech

Delivered a new set of features for emotion recognition from speech

Delivered a demo application for the emotion recognition task

Guest Professor: Acoustic Measures in Motor Speech Disorders (University of Gent, Belgium) Assistant Researcher (Speech Processing) - UCLV, Santa Clara, Cuba March 2014– October 2015

Research topic: Estimating acoustic measures of vocal fold periodicity, dysarthria prediction from speech signals, mild dementia prediction from speech signals and speech emotion recognition

Undergraduate courses taught (Biomedical Engineering): Probability and Statistics, Medical Informatics, Advanced Topics in Machine Learning, Computational Tools in Speech Therapy. Instructor (Biomedical Engineering) – UCLV, Santa Clara, Cuba November 2010– March 2014

Research topic: Estimating acoustic measures of vocal fold periodicity, dysarthria prediction from speech signals, sentence modality estimation in Dutch language and vocal fold pathology estimation from speech signals.

Undergraduate courses taught (Biomedical Engineering): Probability and Statistics, Medical Informatics, Advanced Topics in Machine Learning.

Junior Researcher – UCLV, Santa Clara, Cuba September 2008– November 2010

Undergraduate courses taught: Medical Informatics and Advanced Topics in Machine Learning

Research topic: Estimating acoustic measures of vocal fold periodicity. Programming and Software Skills

Proficient in: Matlab, C#, Delphi, SQL, and SPSS.

Knowledge of: Java, Visual Basic

Education

PhD. Technical Sciences – UCLV, Santa Clara, Cuba 2014 M.S. Computer Science – UCLV, Santa Clara, Cuba 2010 B.S. Computer Science – UCLV, Santa Clara, Cuba 2008 Languages Spanish and English

Main Awards and Publications

Authored papers published in computer sciences and speech processing journals including Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, EURASIP Journal on Advance Signal Processing and BioMed Research International.

Participated in computer sciences, biomedical engineering and speech processing conferences, including Iberoamerican Congresses on Pattern Recognition, Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering, IberSpeech Conference and Interspeech Conference.