PERSONAL INFORMATION:

  • Name: Norelys Aguila Camacho
  • Gender: Female
  • Current residence: Chile
  • Major Academic Degree: PhD in Electrical Engineering
  • E-mail: norelys.aguila@utem.cl
    norelys1980@gmail.com
  • Phone:+56 9 9893 9089

ACADEMIC INFORMATION

Academic degrees

  • PhD. In Electrical Engineering, 2014, University of Chile, Chile.
  • MSc. in Industrial Informatics and Automation, 2010, Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, Cuba.

Professional degrees:

  • Automatic Control Engineering, 2003, Universidad Central Martha Abreu de las Villas, Cuba.
  • Recognized at University of Chile as Electrical Civil Engineer (May 2019).

HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS

Honors, Distinctions and Awards:

  • “Outstanding woman 2023”, in acknowledgement of contribution to teaching and research in STEM for Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile. March 8, 2023.
  • Best PhD thesis in Exact Sciences 2016. Awarded by the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
  • Best presentation award at the 2022 10th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA), for paper Aguila-Camacho, N. & Farías-Ibañez, S.E. “Level Control of a Conical Tank System using Switched Fractional Order PI Controllers: an experimental application”. 10th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA), November 9-12, 2022.
  • Finalist paper for the “Application best paper award” Aguila-Camacho, N. & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. (2014). Fractional error model 1 in adaptive systems. In International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Applications. Catania, Italy.
  • Outstanding graduated (gold degree) on Automatic Control Engineering Class of 2003, Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba.

Fellowships:

  • PhD fellowship, 2010-2013, Advanced Mining Technology Center, University of Chile, Chile.
  • PhD fellowship, 2013-2014, CONICYT, Chile.

Research Stays:

  • University of California Merced, April – May, 2015. Sponsoring researcher: YangQuan Chen, Ph.D. (ychen53@ucmerced.edu).

WORK EXPERIENCE

December 2003 - December 2005

Automatic Control Engineer in training
CEDAI Cfgos, Cuba

January 2006 - June 2010

Automation projects Specialist
CEDAI Cfgos, Cuba

August 2010 - October 2014

PhD. student
University of Chile

November 2014 - March 2018

Postdoctoral researcher
University of Chile

April 2018 - To date

Associate Professor
Technological Metropolitan University (UTEM)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Design and analysis of switched fractional order controllers for optimized system performance and energy consumption: Application to energy intensive processes, Budget: CLP 209.819.000 (App. USD 260,000.00). April 2022 to March 2026 (4 years), FONDECYT Regular, No 1220168, Principal Investigator.
  • Design and analysis of switched model reference adaptive controllers with optimal behavior and control energy consumption for linear systems, Budget: CLP 7.400.000 (App. USD 9,2000.00), March 2022 to February 2024 (2 years), UTEM Internal funds to promote I+D+i or creation 2021, Line 3, UTEM, Principal Investigator.
  • Development of Fractional Order Tools for Stability, Estimation and Control of Systems and Applications, Budget: CLP 193.096.000 (App. USD 240,000.00). March 2019 to February 2023 (4 years), FONDECYT Regular, No 1190959, Co- Investigator.
  • Research and Development of an electronic feeder for maximum efficiency in induction motors, Budget: CLP 199.999.000 (App. USD 250,000.00). January 2018 to January 2020, FONDEF Idea, No ID17I10338, Researcher.
  • Improving the energy efficiency using fractional controllers: Design, analysis, and applications, Budget: CLP 61.080.000 (App. USD 76,000.00). November 2017 to May 2021 (3 years), FONDECYT Initiation in Research, No 11170154, Principal Investigator.
  • Design and study of fractional adaptive controllers with applications to the grinding process, Budget: CLP 83.458.950 (App. USD 104,000.00). November 2014 to March 2018 (3 years), FONDECYT Postdoctoral Research Project, No 3150007, Principal Investigator.
  • Fractional Error Models in Adaptive Control and Applications, Budget: CLP 120.200.000 (App. USD 150,000.00). March 2015 to February 2019 (4 years), FONDECYT Regular No 1150488, Co-Investigator.
  • Accelerated Computing Cluster by GPU, Budget: CLP 39.980.000 (App. USD 50,000.00), March 2019 to February 2021 (2 years), UTEM Internal funds to promote I+D+i or creation 2018, Line 3, UTEM, Co-Investigator.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS AND RELATED WORKS

  • Benchmarking process control of Los Pelambres copper concentrating plant. December 2018-June 2019. In collaboration with Sustainable Minerals Institute – International Centre of Excellence SMI ICE – Chile.
  • Identification of opportunities to increase the energy efficiency at Huasco pellets plant. Aug 2019-Dec 2019. In collaboration with Sustainable Minerals Institute – International Centre of Excellence SMI ICE – Chile.

UNIVERSITY SERVICES AND EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

  • Head of Committee for “Formulation of the MSc in Electronic Engineering Sciences program”, UTEM, 2020-2021.
  • Secretary of the Election Qualifying Court for selection of the Heads of Departments, Faculty of Engineering, UTEM, 2021.
  • Aguila-Camacho, N. Remote operation and automation: challenges and opportunities. In: Achievements and challenges of remote operation and control of mining processes. Organized by PIDi-UTEM and AMTC-UChile, June 18, 2021.

MEMBERSHIPS

  • IEEE Member. 2016 - to date
    ✓ Interim Vice-president of IEEE Control Chapter – Latin America - Chile Section (September-December 2022)
  • IEEE Control Systems Society Member. 2017 – to date

PUBLICATIONS

PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESSES OR SCIENTIFIC EVENTS