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Gerardo Fernández-López is Chairman of the Council of Scientific, Humanistic and Technological Development of the Monteávila University, in Caracas, Venezuela. He is also in charge of the creation of a new Engineering Faculty at the Universidad Monteávila,
He is IEEE Member, Member of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, Also member of the Robotics and Automation Systems Society of the IEEE. He is IEEE Venezuela Section Chair.
He is retired Full Professor of the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Department of Electronics and Circuits. He is in charge of coordinating the Electronic Engineering program at the aforementioned university.
Prof. Fernandez-Lopez obtained a PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Valladolid, Spain, in 1997. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, obtained in 1992, and he is an Electronic Engineer from Universidad Simón Bolívar in 1981. He is currently a retired full professor of the Department of Electronics and Circuits at the Universidad Simon Bolivar. He founded in 2002, the Research and Development Group in Mechatronics.
He has worked on multivariable control of flexible manipulators at the Instituto de Automática Industrial del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid), where he developed his doctoral thesis. He was a founder researcher of the Center for Digital Image Processing at the Engineering Institute (1983-1989), and was Head of the Center for Electrical Engineering and Systems of the same Institute (1989-1992) in Caracas. He was part of the Engineering Institute since its creation in 1982 and until the end of 2001.
He has worked on robot control, flexible robot control, multi-robot systems, control of unmanned vehicles (such as submarines and others). His current research interests include topics related to intelligent prostheses, exoskeletons, memory systems based on "Demanding Distributed Memory", force control, robot swarm navigation strategies and applications to artificial immunology robotics and applications of Transformers to the detection of gesture and intention of pedestrians.
He is author and co-author of more than 80 publications in refereed journals and conferences. He has directed and co-directed several Doctoral Theses and more than 30 Master Theses. He has directed and worked in different projects of Technological Development; for example, he participates in the development of an autonomous vehicle and in the engineering design of a solar panel cleaning robot, among others robotics projects; he worked in the development of conceptual, basic and detailed engineering of a quadcopter for electrical inspections. He is an advisor professor, since its foundation, of the USB Solar group (Development of a solar powered vehicle); of the USB FutBot Association (Future Robotics), of ExoUSB (ExoskeletonUSB) and of the Center for Research in Electronic Technologies (CITE).
He was President of the Foundation for Research and Development of the USB (FUNINDES) from 2011 until August 2015. Simultaneously he was also President of the Simón Bolívar University Technology Park (from 2011 to 2018); both organizations are part of the USB University-Society linkage system.
He has also been an entrepreneur: founding partner of innovation companies such as LOGIN, LOGINTEL, EINPHOS, allied companies of the USB Technology Park. He was President of the Venezuelan Association of Robotics and Domotics (years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017).