Fernando Pérez-González has been named to the Prince of Asturias Endowed Chair in Information Science and Related Technologies. Created in honor of the heir to the Spanish throne, the Prince of Asturias Endowed Chair promotes collaboration between Spanish and U.S. scholars by bringing a preeminent Spanish scientist to the University of New Mexico to engage in teaching and research in information science and technology.
Photo: Fernando Pérez-González
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department supports the Chair endowment with support for two Spanish graduate students to study with the Chair and ECE faculty at UNM.
Pérez-González will be in residence at the ECE Department each fall semester of his tenure, from three to five years, teaching a graduate level course in addition to pursuing local collaborations and research. He is teaching Information Forensics and Security, ECE 595-007, during fall 2009, his first semester at UNM.
Pérez-González also continues the three positions he has held while at Spain’s Universidad de Vigo. These positions are: executive director of the Galician R&D Center in Telecommunications, manager of the National R&D Plan for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and professor of Communication Technologies.
Pérez-González studied and collaborated with the ECE department at UNM previously in 1991,1992 and 2006. ECE Professor and Chair Chaouki Abdallah served as one of his advisors for the doctoral degree he earned at the Universidad de Vigo in 1993. His research interests are in digital communications, adaptive algorithms, robust control, digital watermarking and information security.
He has co-authored six books and has 154 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and reviewed conference papers to his credit. Pérez-González also co-holds five communications related patents and is a senior member of the IEEE and its Signal Processing Society.
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