ANDRÉS JARAMILLO-BOTERO, Ph.D.
  

Date

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

 

6/1/2006-PRESENT

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California, United States. http://www.caltech.edu 

Research Scientist. Director, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC), Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division

  • Day-to-day lead and coordinator in multiple R&D and industry consulting projects

  • Scientific Director, OMICAS R&D program, an international, multi-institutional research effort funded by Colombian government and World Bank

  • Lecturer: Atomic Level Simulations of Materials and Molecules (CH121a/b)

  • Thesis co-advisor: graduate and undergraduate students in Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science

  • SURF mentor

 

2/1/1990-

6/1/2006, 2014, 2018

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia. http://www.javerianacali.edu.co 

Full Professor Electronics and Computational Science Department, Engineering Faculty (1999-) 

  • Scientific Director, OMICAS R&D program (anchored at PUJC) (2018-2022)

  • Founder Engineering and Applied Science Doctoral program (2014)

  • School of Engineering Dean 8/1998-10/2004

  • Board of Directors Member 8/1998-10/2004

  • Chair Electronics Engineering 6/1993-10/1998 

  • Chair Systems and Computer Engineering 6/1992-10/1998

  • Founding Director, Robotics and Automation Research Group (GAR) 1995-2005

  • Founding Director Process Automation Technology Transfer Center 1/1999-6/2004

  • Eng. Research Coordinator (1990-1992)

 

10/2004-

03/2005

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California. Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC). http://www.wag.caltech.edu

Invited Research Associate (postdoctoral). Computational Nanotechnology 

Host: Professor William A. Goddard, III

9/2002-

12/2002

Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, US. http://www.ipam.ucla.edu 

Invited Research Fellow (postdoctoral). Nano-scale Science and Engineering Program, NSF funded. 

Host: Dr. Mark Green (Dir. IPAM)

 

10/1996-

12/1997

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California. Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC). http://www.wag.caltech.edu 

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL-NASA), Pasadena, California. Ultracomputing Group, Engineering and Science Directorate. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov 

Visiting Faculty/Research Associate. Novel methods for Computational Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Computational Nanotechnology (massively parallel algorithms).

Collaborators: Prof. William Goddard III (Dir. MSC), Dr. Tahir Cagin (Dir. High Performance Computing and Simulation at MSC), Dr. Amir Fijany (Senior Researcher JPL).

8/1992-

7/1993

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL), Autonomous Machinery Division, Robotics Department, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. http://www.mel.go.jp 

Invited Researcher and Trainee. Advanced Industrial Technologies.

Host: Dr. Kazuo Yamaba (Senior Researcher MEL).

 

1-8/1988

S.T.A. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Eng. Dept., Cali, Colombia.

Systems Engineer.

 

12/1986-

12/1987

Sincron Diseño Electronico Ltda, Eng. Dept., Cali, Colombia. http://www.sincron.com.co 

Electronics Design Engineer.

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND MENTORING ACTIVITIES

1993-

PRESENT

Scientific Peer Referee, Scientific Advisor and Program Organizer/Committee Member: 

  • US Department of Energy - DOE (Scientific research reviewer)
  • National Science Foundation - NSF (PASI organizer, Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Computational Nanotechnology and Molecular Engineering - Caltech)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE (reviewer for several Transactions: Robotics and Automation, Fuzzy Systems, Nanotechnology; and Program Committee member on related conferences)
  • Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo - CYTED (reviewer)
  • International Federation of Automatic Control - IFAC (reviewer)
  • Latin-American Center for Informatics Studies - CLEI, reviewer)
  • Colombian Science and Technology Agency, Colciencias (NSF-equiv; Scientific Advisor/project reviewer)
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Coupled Systems and Multiscale Dynamics, American Scientific Publishers, ISSN: 2330-152X (Print): ISSN: 2330-1538 (Online)
  • Editorial Board, Revista Ingenieria y Universidad, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, ISSN 0123-2126 (Print)
   
02/1990-PRESENT
  • Mentoring and Thesis Advisory.  See list of undergraduate and graduate students advised here.
  • Caltech-SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) co-mentor and judge.
   

06/2001-06/2006

Principal Editor, EPICICLOS Scientific Magazine (peer reviewed), ISSN: 1657-5636. Indexed in Latindex and Publindex. http://epiciclos.puj.edu.co

 

 

 

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