EDUCATION

PhD Student in Electrical Engineering                 Currently
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

Research Area: Microwave Remote Sensing
Laboratory: Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory

M.S. Electrical Engineering                             SEPTEMBER 2010
UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO

Research Area: Applied Remote Sensing and Image Processing
Laboratory: Laboratory For Applied Remote Sensing and Image Processing
Thesis Title: Understanding The Effect Of Spatial Resolution On Unmixing Algorithms For Hyperspectral Imagery
Relevant Courses: Numerical Optimization, Estimation, Detection and Stochastic Processes, Statistics Theory, Cell and Tissue Image Analysis, Adaptive and Optimal Signal Processing, Advanced Digital Signal Processing algorithms, Introduction to Subsurface Sensing and Imaging, and Introduction to Remote Sensing.

B.S. Electronic Engineering                                     May 2005
UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER

Research Area: Biomedical Applications
Laboratory: Neurociencias y Comportamiento UIS-UPB
Thesis Title: Design And Implementation Of Equipment For Physiological Variables Measurement In Human Autonomic System
Relevant Courses: Automation and Control, Instrumentation, Image processing, Signal Processing and Bio-engineering

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant at University of Puerto Rico
Jan, 2008 – Aug 2010

Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image Processing "LARSIP" supported by The Bernand M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems “CenSSIS”. My work was oriented in the development and testing of image processing software applied to hyperspectral imagery with the supervision of Dr. Miguel Velez-Reyes.

Professor at Universidad San Martin - Cartagena - Colombia
Aug, 2005 – May,2007

Digital Electronic Course.
I taught to third year students from Computer Engineering Program

Research Student at Universidad Industrial de Santander
Feb, 2004 – May,2005

Neuroscience and behavior Research Group and CEMOS UIS Research Group.
I participated as a hardware and software developer for Biomedical Applications.

Teaching Assistant at Universidad Industrial de Santander - Colombia
Oct, 2002 – Feb 2005

Electric Machines Course.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Developer
Florida Solar Energy Center
UCF Cocoa Campus
Jan,2011 – Aug,2011

My main assignment was to develop asp.net applications using Visual Basic and Oracle database, involving ERD analysis and design of the application.

Maintenance Cost Professional
Cartagena Oil Refinery - ECOPETROL
Cartagena – Colombia
Jan,2007 – Dec, 2007

I was monitoring the refinery maintenance costs, financial and planning indexes and maintenance department budget.

Planner and Schedule Programmer
Electric Maintenance contract at Cartagena ECOPETROL oil Refinery.
Cartagena - Colombia
Jan, 2006 – Dec, 2006

I was the planner and schedule programmer of the Electric maintenance
Projects: Heat Tracing Control Set up in a line process at Cartagena Refinery.

SKILLS

Programming: Matlab, C , C++, Visual Basic, ASP.net, PLSQL and SQL
Engineering Software: ENVI, MultiSpec, Labview, Pspice, Eagle, ELLIPSE, SAP, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft word.

HONORS

Honor Student at Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Second half 1999 - First half 2000 - First half 2002

CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS

Santos-Garcia, A.; Velez-Reyes,M. "Identifiability of Geometric Models For Linear Unmixing at Different Spatial Resolutions in Hyperspectral Unmixing" . Second Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, 2010. WHISPERS '10.June,2010.

A.Santos-Garcia and M.Velez-Reyes.“Understanding the impact of spatial resolution in unmixing of hyperspectral images” . In Proceedings of SPIE: Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XVI, Vol. 7695, April 2010.

A.Santos-Garcia, M.Velez-Reyes,S. Rosado and D. Chinea. “A comparison of unmixing techniques for hyperspectral images”. In Proceedings of SPIE: Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XV, Vol. 7334, April 2009.

Santos A , Conde SA, Sierra DA: Diseño, construcción e implementación de un sistema para la medición de variables fisiológicas en pruebas autonómicas. Revista Salud UIS. 2005. Vol. 37 n 1. Pag. 72-73. (Design and implementation of equipment for physiological variables measurement in human autonomic system. Health UIS Journal. 2005. Vol. 37 n 1. Pag. 72- 73)