Alvaro David Orjuela-Cañón received the B.Sc degree in electronic engineering in Bogotá, Colombia in 2006 from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. M.Sc degree in electrical engineering from Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) in Brazil in 2009. At the same, he was with Electrical Energy Research Centre (CEPEL) in Brazil. In 2015 earned his Ph. D degree in COPPE/UFRJ with study subject related to support the diagnosis of pleural and meningeal Tuberculosis, employing computational intelligence. He has more than ten years of experience as professor at different universities in Bogota such as UAN, UDFJC and FUAC, and currently he is with the School of Medicine and Health Sciences from Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia, as principal professor and co-director of the biomedical engineering program and faculty member of the postgraduate program in agreement with the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito. About the oriented disciplines as lecturer are: bioinformatics, introduction to artificial intelligence in health and research methodology other subjects taught are: digital signal processing, electronics, circuits and computational intelligence. He is recognized as associate researcher by Minciencias (Colombian minister of science, technology and innovation) and member of the Gibiome research group. Some research projects have been teamed with the Fundación Neumológica Colombiana, Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud Centro-Oriente, Hospital Universitario Méderi and the Universidad Antonio Nariño. He was part of the Postdoctoral Researchers Networking Tour 2018 (Artificial Intelligence Coming of Age) from the DAAD. In his topics of interest are signal processing, neural networks, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in health as support diagnosis methods. Currently, he is Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and volunteer of the Colombian chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). He has leaded the Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence (IEEE ColCACI) and he is member of the steering committee of the Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (IEEE- LACCI). He had published around 50 papers in specialized journals and conferences. In addition, he had oriented more than 20 students of undergraduate and graduate studies.
