SCHOOL OF SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
John William
VÁSQUEZ CAPACHO
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Director of Postgraduate Office
Director of GED
Research Group
CONTACT
Information
jwvascap@uis.edu.co
+57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 1600
GENERAL
Biography
John William Vásquez Capacho is a Senior Researcher and Evaluator for Minciencias, specializing in the field of electronics. He is a dynamic and innovative individual with strong research and knowledge management skills, who is passionate about fostering collaboration between universities, companies and government agencies to drive innovation. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes and the University of Toulouse/France. He also holds a Master’s degree in Automation from the Politecnico de Valencia, Spain. He is an Electronics Engineer from the Universidad del Valle and an Electronics Technologist from the Unidades Tecnológicas de Santander.
He is an expert in fault diagnosis and safety in industrial processes and boasts 20 years of experience in both the industrial and academic sectors, where he has designed and implemented R&D projects in fields such as mechatronics, industrial automation, control, and robotics. In 2016, he received the Colombian Innovation Award from ECOPETROL – INNPULSA.
EDUCATION AND
Qualifications
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PhD in Engineering
Universidad de los Andes, 2018
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Electronic Engineer
Universidad del Valle, 2021
Director of Postgraduate Office
Director of
GED Research Group
CONTACT
Information
jwvascap@uis.edu.co
+57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 1600
AREAS OF
Expertise
Industrial automation
Fault diagnostics
Discrete event systems
Alarm management
Artificial intelligence applied to industrial process monitoring
Computer networks
OFFICE
Hours
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Monday
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
Tuesday
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
UIS Campus Central, Edificio Laboratorios Pesados, Escuela de Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática
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Outstanding
Works
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V-nets, new formalism to manage diagnosis problems in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and industrial applications
Article, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020
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Simultaneous occurrences and false-positives analysis in discrete event dynamic systems
Article, Journal of Computational Science, 2020
AWARDS AND
Recognitions
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Ecopetrol Innovation Award
INNPULSA, Colombia, 2016