Dr. Miguel Vélez-Reyes
Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
P.O. Box 9042
Mayaguez, PR 00681-9042

Tel. +1-787-832-4040, Ext. 2888
Tel. +1-787-832-2825

FAX : +1-787-832-2485

E-MAIL: m.velez@ieee.org

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SHORT BIO

Dr. Miguel Vélez-Reyes is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus. He did his Ph.D., Electrical Engineer, and Science Master degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and BSEE at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). Dr. Vélez-Reyes research and teaching interests are in the areas of  modeling, identification, and control of dynamic systems, remote sensing and hyperspectral image processing.

He has been awarded the NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers ( PECASE ) by U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1997 for the project Parameter Estimation for Ill-Conditioned Systems with Applications to Electric Drives and Power Systems .

Dr. Velez-Reyes is director of the UPRM Tropical Center for Earth and Space Studies a NASA University Research Center.  He is also Associate Director and UPRM Campus Coordinator for the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS), and UPRM Campus Coordinator for the Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES ) National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Centers ( ERC ).


FULL CV AND PUBLICATIONS LIST (pdf file)

COURSES
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
  • IEEE 2002 Workshop on Computers in Power Electronics (COMPEL 2002)