Alex Villazón Torrico
Vita
Prof. Alex Villazón has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he also completed undergraduate studies and earned his master's degree with a scholarship from the Simón I. Patiño Foundation. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (2003-2007), and at the University of Lugano, Switzerland (2007-2009), where he participated in several European projects. In 2010, he returned to Bolivia to join the UPB research team and create the Center for Research on New Information Technologies (CINTI), which he has directed to this day. He made several scientific visits to the University of Lugano, Switzerland in 2012, 2014, and 2017, where he conducted research work and published several scientific papers. One of his publications made during those visits was awarded in 2023 with the “AOSA International Award for the Most Influential Article of the Last 10 Years”. He has been a Full Professor at UPB since 2016 and was Dean of Research at FIA in 2024. He has published more than 100 indexed articles in journals and international conferences, and is among the top 10 most cited researchers in Bolivia. He has won several Plurinational Science and Technology Awards (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019). He is the general coordinator of the international EU-BEGP Project of the European Commission's Erasmus+ Program (2023-2026) and is co-author of the first Bolivian technological patent, obtained in 2023.
Training's expertise
- Curriculum development,Research proposal writing
Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
Country of residence
- Bolivia
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Contact
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