PhD in Engineering Kalil Erazo, awarded Researcher of the 2018 Year at INTEC
SANTO DOMINGO. - The doctor Kalil Erazo, research professor of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), was recognized as 2018 researcher of the year, During the Second Week of Science that the academy does, for its great contributions to the activities of research projects., Its publications and its featured teacher development y answer.
Erazo is a graduate of the career of Civil Engineering of INTEC. That's it visiting researcher en Rice University, located in Houston, Texas, United States. He made a Master in Structural Engineering en Georgia Institute of Technology as Fulbright Fellow, And a doctorate en Civil Engineering en University of Vermont.
The research presented by Dr. Erazo is focused on the development and application of robust probabilistic and statistical methods in the context of structural monitoring, in order to predict the behavior and damage to civil infrastructures subjected to extreme natural events such as earthquakes and hurricanes .
Dr. Erazo posted more than ten articles en scientific magazines High impact and has presented the results of its research in more than ten international conferences and congresses. his research projects. es financed by the National Fund for Innovation and Scientific and Technological Development (FONDOCYT) of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT), and by internal funds of INTEC.
In addition to his work as a researcher, Erazo is editor for the scientific magazine INTEC Science and Engineering, the first academic publication with scientific rigor dedicated to the field of engineering, which is published and published in the Dominican Republic.
Teachers and researchers were also recognized during the event Berenice Pacheco-Salazar, Jorge Ulloa, Melvin Arias, Rosanna Carreras, Magdalena Lizardo, Luis Enrique Rodríguez de Francisco y Henry Rosa, for their research work, as authors and co-authors.
While the teacher Velicko Vranes deserved the award for best scientific poster for your research “Parameters of gray-scale medical images: Cluster analysis, response surface methodology (MSR) and artificial neural networks (RNA) in quantitative analysis”.