Camilo La Rota Arango

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Curriculum Vitae

Laboratoire TIMC Faculté de Médecine de Grenoble 38706, La Tronche FRANCE E-mail: Camilo.Larota@imag.fr

In this page I only present information related with my professional activities. For any other information you can take a look to my personal web page.

I am interested in the observation and analysis of biological activity, in particular neural activity, and in the human interaction with these systems. I have an electrical engineering background and I have specialized in the use of engineering methods to solve issues arising from biology and medicine, particularly in advanced signal processing and mathematical modeling methods.

You can find a more detailed overview of my research interests and experience in my research page.

I hold a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in electrical engineering, both of them obtained at the University of Los Andes at Bogota, Colombia. After finishing my M.Sc. studies (during the 1993-1994 academic year) I have been in France where I studied medical imaging at the technological university of Compiègne(UTC). In autumn 1996 I returned to France where I followed studies in Models and Instruments in Biology and Medicine at the Joseph Fourier University, obtaining a DEA (Deep Studies Diplome) and starting a doctoral thesis in the area of multisite neural activity analysis. In january 2003 I successfully defended my doctoral thesis and obtained the Ph.D. diploma in Models and Instruments in Medicine and Biology from the University Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France.

I have done my thesis research at the TIMC laboratory of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Grenoble (IMAG). My PhD thesis focused in the search of a methodology to analyze multiple site cortical electrical activity signals and in the analysis of experimental data obtained with voltage-sensitive-dyes representing the spatiotemporal activity of the guinea pig's auditory cortex in response to sound stimuli. This study has involved the development of a model describing the observed signal as a function of the underlying synaptic activities, the use and adaptation of advanced signal processing techniques in order to process these signals, and the study of spatiotemporal stochastic models to analyze the multiple site data.

I have worked as an assistant professor of logic circuits, signal processing and medical imaging, at University of Los Andes the electrical engineering department at Bogota, Colombia.

For a more detailed recapitulation of my past activities and education you can look at my Curriculum Vitae.