Leon Escobar-Moreira

Mailing Address: Leon Escobar-Moreira GEA - P-Division Norbert Wiener Center of Harmonic Analysis College Park, MD USA E-mail: leonescobarm@ieee.org Telephone Number: (443) 766-1124

Professional Biography

León Escobar-Moreira is an Industry Automation engineer and Research Affiliate with the Norbert Wiener Center of Harmonic Analysis and Applications at the University of Maryland College Park. He received his Electronics Engineer degree at the Army Polytechnic School (ESPE) in Quito, Ecuador. He also holds a Masters degree in Mathematics Applied to Industrial Technology from University of Maryland at College Park and trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a certificate in Motors & VFD design.

Over the last decade, Mr. Escobar has performed important projects for private and government agencies in the fields of satellite telemetry, remote sensing applications, and industrial automation. He was also a professor of Controls Theory, Solid State Electronics, and PC Interfaces at the Electronics Engineering Department of the Army Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador and a lecturer of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Intelligent Industrial Automation, and Industrial SCADA systems at the Robotics/AI Department of the Salesian Polytechnic University in Quito, Ecuador. He has published papers, tutorials, and technical reports in the fields of applied harmonic analysis, electrical machines, communication theory, and signal processing, among others, which were presented in refereed international conferences.

Mr. L. Escobar is a Senior Member of IEEE, founding Vice-Chair of the IEEE Washington Section Robotics & Automation Society Chapter, and member of the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of the Artificial Intelligence – formerly American Association of AI). He has been invited to serve as a judge in robotics competitions, peer review conferences in the fields of robotics, electrical machines, electromagnetic devices and systems, and presided as chair of sessions in various automation, control, and international applied math conferences.

Research Interests

Current research interests include artificial intelligent- based process control, human/robot interaction, autonomous vehicle navigation, robotics safety, and applied harmonic analysis in electrical machines and systems.

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