Biography & Research:
Himar Fabelo received the Telecommunication Engineering and the master's and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Technologies from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain, in 2013, 2014 and 2019. He achieved the Cum Laude qualification and the International Mention, and the Extraordinary Prize of PhD of 2018/2019. In 2015, he started to work as a Coordination Assistant and Researcher in the HELICoiD European Project, with the goal of applying hyperspectral imaging (HSI) for intraoperative brain cancer detection. In 2017, he obtained the Predoctoral Research Grant of the ULPGC and, in 2019, he achieved the Postdoctoral Orientation Period (POP) contract. He has conducted his research activity in the Integrated System Design Division, Institute for Applied Microelectronics of the ULPGC, in the field of electronics and bioengineering. In 2018, he performed a research stay in the Department of Bioengineering at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), under the supervision of Prof. Baowei Fei, working in medical HSI analysis using deep learning algorithms.