Claudio M. Held's Short Bio

Claudio M. Held: Short Biography

Assistant Professor

Automation and Bioengineering Area (AAB)

Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas

Claudio M. Held received the Lic.Eng.Sc.(EE) (1988), the Electrical Civil Eng. (PE) and the M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering (1990) from Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, Chile. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (1995) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY, USA.

Prior to his Ph.D. studies, he was an advisor in biomedical engineering at the Clinical Hospital, and participated in designing tools for medical decision-making at the Electrical Engineering Dept., both of Universidad de Chile.

At Rensselaer he worked on knowledge-based electrocardiogram interpretation. He did his doctoral research with Dr.Rob J. Roy on the design of an automated multiple drug delivery control system. He was also actively involved in teaching, as a teaching assistant, instructor and course coordinator, in different general engineering courses at Rensselaer, especially in the course Laboratory Introduction to Embedded Control (LITEC).

He is currently Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Universidad de Chile, (part-time), and is a managing director at Aparatos de Comunicación Interna Ltda. , a company devoted to telecommunications and systems control products. He introduced a Course in Fuzzy Logic in the Electrical Engineering Department, which he has taught every fall semester since 1996. He has also taught other courses in electrical engineering, seminars in biomedical engineering, and has guided several thesis projects (for Electrical Civil Engineering).

His research interests are applying fuzzy logic and intelligent systems in biomedical engineering and other areas of decision-making. He has worked in automated electrocardiogram interpretation, multiple drug infusion, classification of sleep-waking states in infants, handwritten digit recognition and fraud detection in long distance telecommunications .

He is a member of IEEE and its Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE/EMBS), and served as President of the Rensselaer Student Branch of the IEEE/EMBS in 1993-94.

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Last updated September 13, 2000