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Hugo Posada-Quintero
Biography
Dr. Hugo F. Posada-Quintero (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his BS in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Distrital in Colombia in 2005 and his MS in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia in 2008. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2016. His dissertation focused on novel techniques to assess the autonomic nervous system using electrodermal activity. His research interests include biomedical signal processing, wearable sensors, and the interpretation of physiological signals using machine learning for the detection and prediction of stress, fatigue, pain, emotion, cognitive performance, oxygen toxicity, and heart failure, among others.