Sunday Mery

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

He was Director of Research and Innovation at the UC School of Engineering from 2015 to 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 the detection of defects 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 Pattern Recognition Conference.