Alejandro Betancourt Curriculum Vitae 2013 Pres. Education PhD in Engineering. Erasmus Mundus Fellow in Interactive and Cognitive Environments. University of Genova and Eindhoven University of Technology. 2011 2012 MSc in Applied Mathematics (GPA: 4.51 over 5.00 (90.2%)). Fundamental Sciences Department, EAFIT University, 2006 2011 BSc in Mathematical engineer (GPA: 4.26 over 5.00 (85.2%)). Fundamental Sciences Department, EAFIT University, Awards 2013 Erasmus Mundus PhD fellowship Interactive and Cognitive Environments. European Union. Education, Audiovisual and Culture Excecutivy Agency (EACEA). 2012 MSc honoured thesis entitled An algorithmic approach for simulating realistic irregular tilings. EAFIT University, Medellín 2012 Colombian young researcher 2012. National award given to the best young researchers of the country. Colombian administrative department of science, technology and innovation (Colciencias). 2011 EAFIT award for the outstanding undergraduate research with RiSE group. Graduation ceremony of the BSc in mathematical engineering. Medellín, 2010 Medellín research award 2010. Medellín city hall research award given to the best 10 undergraduate researchers of the city. Medellín Government. Experience As researcher 2013 - Pres. ISIP40. University of Genova, Department of Engineering. Italy. 2007-2013. Research in Spatial Economics (RISE- Group), Economics Department, EAFIT University, (http://rise-group.org). Birth day: January 24, 1987 (Medellín, Colombia) 1/5
As consultant 2010-2014. EAFIT University, Medellín 2012 Spatial planification of the portuarian area of Uraba. Project developed for the Antioquia goverment. 2012 Spatial deaggregation and forecast of the water consumption of Medellín metropolitan area from 2005 to 2040. Project developed for EPM (http://www.epm.com.co/), company responsible of the public services of Medellín city. 2011 Gas consumption forecast 2005-2040 of Medellín metropolitan area. Project developed for EPM (http://www.epm.com.co/), company responsible of the public services of Medellín city. 2010 Dynamic simulation of industry clusters between 2010-2030. Project developed for the chamber of commerce of Antioquia department. The project is supported by the theory of economic multipliers. As employee 2010 2013 Research Assitant. Research in Spatial Economics (RISE- Group), Economics Department, EAFIT University. Medellín, (http://rise-group.org). 2009 2010 Responsible for Mathematical Studies. Crime information system of Medellin city. Medellín, Colombia Publications 2014 Alejandro Betancourt, Pietro Morerio, Matthias Rauterberg, Carlo Regazzoni. An Overview of First Person Vision and Egocentric Video Analysis for Personal Mobile Wearable Devices. Under review, Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). 2014 Kresimir Dabcevic, Alejandro Betancourt, Lucio Marcenaro, Carlo S. Regazzoni. Intelligent cognitive radio jamming - a game-theoretical approach Under review, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 2014 Alejandro Betancourt, Miriam Lopez, Matthias Rauterberg, Carlo Regazzoni. A Sequential Classifier for Hand Detection in the Framework of Egocentric Vision. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPRW). 2014 Kresimir Dabcevic, Alejandro Betancourt, Lucio Marcenaro, Carlo S. Regazzoni. A fictitious play-based game-theoretical approach to alleviating jamming attacks for Cognitive radios. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2014 J.C Duque, Alejandro Betancourt, F.H Marín. An algorithmic approach for simulating realistic irregular lattices. In Press, GeoComputational Analysis and Modeling of Regional Systems, Springer s Advances in Geographic Information Science Series. 2012 Alejandro Betancourt, Luis A. Quintero. Evaluación de la dinámica urbana para la ciudad de Envigado. Ecos de economía. 16(34),29-48. Birth day: January 24, 1987 (Medellín, Colombia) 2/5
2010 J.C Duque, Jared Aldstadt, Hermilson Velázquez, J.L Franco, Alejandro Betancourt. A computationally efficient method for delineating irregularly shaped spatial clusters. Journal of Geographical Systems 13,355-372. DOI: 10.1007/s10109-010-0137-1. Conferences 2014 Kresimir Dabcevic, Alejandro Betancourt, Ozair Mughal, Lucio Marcenaro, Carlo S. Regazzoni A Game-theoretical Analysis of Intelligent Cognitive Radio Jamming. Riunione Annuale 2014 dell Associazione Gruppo nazionale Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell Informazione. 2014 Alejandro Betancourt, Miriam Lopez, Matthias Rauterberg, Carlo Regazzoni. A Sequential Classifier for Hand Detection in the Framework of Egocentric Vision. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2014 Kresimir Dabcevic, Alejandro Betancourt, Lucio Marcenaro, Carlo S. Regazzoni. A fictitious play-based game-theoretical approach to alleviating jamming attacks for Cognitive radios. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Florence Italy. 2012 J.C Duque, Freddy H. Marin, Alejandro Betancourt. A Spatially disaggregated forecast of demand for piped water in the metropolitan area of Medellin- En VI World Conference of Spatial Econometrics Association. Salvador, Brazil. Septiembre. 2012 J.C Duque, Freddy H. Marin, Alejandro Betancourt. Ecuaciones diferenciales estocásticas, geometría fractal y geocomputación para la simulación de mapas reales. En Primer encuentro internacional de Matemáticas y Física. Amazonía, Septiembre. 2011 J.C Duque, Alejandro Betancourt, Freddy H. Marin. An algorithmic approach for simulating realistic irregular lattices. En 58th Annual North American Meetings of Regional Science Association International. Miami, United States of America. Noviembre. 2011 J.C Duque, Sebastian Aparicio, Alejandro Betancourt, Diego F. Gomez. Dynamics and I-O Analysis to Forecast the Role of Industry Clusters in Medellin s Metropolitan Area. En 58th Annual North American Meetings of Regional Science Association International. Miami, United States of America. Noviembre. 2010 Alejandro Betancourt, J.C. Duque, J.L. Franco. A variation of the Kohonen s Self-Organizing Maps to guarantee spatial contiguity in zone desing problems. In International conference of applied Mathematics. San Andrés, Noviembre. 2010 J.L. Franco, Alejandro Betancourt, C.M. Velez. Parameter Identification of a Double Inverted Pendulum Using Heuristic Algorithms. In International conference of applied Mathematics. San Andrés, Noviembre. 2010 J.C. Duque, Alejandro Betancourt, B. Dev. Geogrouper, Zone design Software. In International conference of applied Mathematics. San Andrés, Noviembre. Birth day: January 24, 1987 (Medellín, Colombia) 3/5
2009 J.C Duque, Hermilson Velázquez, J.L Franco, Alejandro Betancourt. A computationally eficient formulation for the Aldstadt and Getis AMOEBA algorithm. En First Conference of regional Science Association of the Americas, RSAmericas. Cartagena, Febrero. 2009 Alejandro Betancourt, J.L Franco, L.A Quintero. Urban Dynamic evaluation for the city of Envigado. En First Conference of regional Science Association of the Americas, RSAmericas. Cartagena, Febrero. 2008 Alejandro Betancourt, Luis Antonio Quintero. Evaluación de la dinámica urbana en la ciudad de Envigado. En VI Colombian meeting of system dynamics. Bucaramanga, Septiembre. Software Development Local software 2009 Pres Developer. ClusterPy: Library of spatially constrained clustering algorithms. RiSE Group. Medellín, 2009 2013. Developer. GeoGrouper: Spatial Aggregation Software. RiSE Group. Medellín, RiSE Group. Medellín, 2011 Director and developer System for Economic Multipliers (SAME 1.0.0). Chamber of commerce of Antioquia department. RiSE group. Medellín, 2009 2010 Director and developer SIC, Qualitative Information System to manage and visualize the criminal information of Medellín city. Criminal information system of Medellin city. 2008 Developer PyAcution: Auction specialized python software developed for Delloite. RiSE group. Medellín, Web development 2013 [In progress] Spatial Deaggregation of economic multipliers, A city system. Pilot study case, RiSE group and ONU-habitat. Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, 2012 Digital platform for spatial visualization of Colombian socioeconomic variables simulated with System Dynamics. RiSE group and ECSIM Foundation. Medellín, 2011 System of economic multipliers (http://www.risegroup.org/section/animation/multiplierscolombia/). RiSE group. Medellin, 2010 RiSE group website (http://www.rise-group.org). Medellin, Research Interest Mathematical Modeling, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Regional Sciences, Software Development. Birth day: January 24, 1987 (Medellín, Colombia) 4/5
Software experience Spatial Statistics: ArcGis, Geoda, clusterpy, GeoGrouper. Development Languages: In order of experience - Python, Matlab, C++ Computer Vision: OpenCV with python and C++ Web Develpment: Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Operative Sytems: In order of preference - Linux, Windows. Languages Spanish, English. Professional References Dr. Juan C. Duque Economics Department EAFIT University Address: Carrera 49 7 Sur-50 Medellín, Colombia Phone number: +574 261-9500 Ext. 9993 email: jduquec1@eafit.edu.co Dr. Carlo Regazzoni Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering University of Genova Address: Via all Opera Pia 11A Genova, Italy Phone number: +39-10-3532792 email: carlo.regazzoni@unige.it Dr. Matthias RAUTERBERG Industrial Design Department Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands Phone number: 040-247 5215 email: G.W.M.Rauterberg@tue.nl Birth day: January 24, 1987 (Medellín, Colombia) 5/5