Domingo Mery

Domingo Mery is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of UC. He obtained his Diploma (M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1992, and his 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 Foundation and a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for his doctoral work. He was Associate Researcher in 2001 at the Department of Computer Engineering of Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He is currently Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), Chile. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science in 2005-2009. He was Visiting Associate Professor at the Computer Vision Research Lab of the University of Notre Dame in 2014-2015.

He was Director of Research and Innovation at the UC School of Engineering in 2015-2018. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information, Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, and the 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), as well as of the Congreso Iberoamericano de Reconocimiento de Patrones 2007.