Domingo Mery

Domingo Mery is Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science at UC. He obtained the Diploma (M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1992 and the Ph.D. with distinction from the Technical University of Berlin in 2000. He was a research scientist at the Institute for Measurement and Automation Technology of the Technical University of Berlin, where he collaborated with YXLON X-Ray International. He received a scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for his doctoral work. He was a Research Associate in 2001 at the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Santiago de Chile. He is currently Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), Chile. He was Head of the Computer Science Department in 2005-2009. He was Visiting Associate Professor at the Computer Vision Research Lab at the University of Notre Dame in 2014-2015.

He was the Director of Research and Innovation at the UC School of Engineering in 2015-2018. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information, Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science and International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems. His research interests include image processing for flaw detection in aluminum castings, X-ray imaging, real-time programming, and computer vision. He is the author of more than 90 SCI technical publications and more than 100 conference papers. He was local co-chair of ICCV2015 (Santiago, Chile). He was general program chair of PSIVT2007, program chair of PSIVT2009 and general co-chair of PSIVT2011 (Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology), and the 2007 Ibero-American Congress on Pattern Recognition.