Joaquin Salas

Bio

Joaquín Salas is a professor in the field of Computer Vision at Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Member of the Mexican National Research System, his research interests include the monitoring of natural systems using visual perception and aerial platforms. Salas received a Ph.D. in computer science from ITESM, México. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Duke University, Oregon State University, Xerox PARC, the Computer Vision Center, and the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne. He has served as co-chairperson of the Mexican Conference for Patter Recognition three times. Salas was Fulbright scholar for the US State Department. He has been invited editor for Elsevier Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition Letters. For his services at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, he received the Lázaro Cárdenas medal from the President of Mexico.