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Publications & Academic Honors

A summary of peer-reviewed scientific contributions in biomedical engineering, electromyographic signal processing, digital systems, and awards.

Honors & Awards

  • RETECA Foundation Scholarship (Sept 2018)
    Awarded by the Reteca Foundation, granting selected international young engineers the opportunity to conduct applied research at SUPSI (Switzerland) and complete a postgraduate Master of Science in Engineering degree.

  • Certificate of Merit (March 2018)
    Awarded for the paper "Myoelectric Response of the Upper Limbs to Temperature Variation" at the 2018 International Conference on Bioinformatics (IMECS 2018), Hong Kong.

  • Certificate of Merit (July 2017)
    Awarded for the paper "A Dual Extended Kalman Filter for Tilt Estimation" at the 2017 International Conference of Signal and Image Engineering (WCE 2017), London, United Kingdom.

  • Scholarship for Scientific Merit (May 2015)
    Recognition for Technical and Innovation Merit (I Term 2015), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL).

Journal Articles

  1. Efrén V. Herrera, Edgar M. Vela, Victor A. Arce, Katherine G. Molina, Nathaly S. Sánchez, Paúl J. Daza, Luis E. Herrera, Douglas A. Plaza
    "Temperature Influences at the Myoelectric Level in the Upper Extremities of the Human Body"
    Open Biomedical Engineering Journal, 2020, Vol. 14(1), pp. 28–42.
    doi:10.2174/1874120702014010028

Conference Proceedings

  1. Efrén V. Herrera, Edgar M. Vela, Nathaly S. Sanchez, Victor A. Arce, Katherine G. Molina, Luis E. Herrera, Douglas A. Plaza
    "Spectral Features of Myoelectric Signal: Approach on Temperature Variation"
    2019 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), April 23–26, 2019, Paris, France.

  2. Efrén V. Herrera, Katherine G. Molina, Edgar M. Vela, Dennys D. Cortez, Luis E. Herrera, Douglas A. Plaza
    "EMG onset detection caused by Temperature Variation"
    2019 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), April 23–26, 2019, Paris, France.

  3. Katherine G. Molina, Germán A. Granados, Edgar M. Vela, Washington A. Medina, Luis E. Herrera, Efrén V. Herrera
    "Acquisition of Myoelectric Signals: Use of Opensource Software and Hardware for Signal Preprocessing"
    The 2018 IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC 2018), Nov 14–16, 2018, Ixtapa, Guerrero, Mexico.

  4. Efrén V. Herrera, Edgar M. Vela, Victor A. Arce, Nathaly S. Sánchez, Katherine G. Molina, Douglas A. Plaza
    "Myoelectric Response of the Upper Limbs to Temperature Variation"
    Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science: Proceedings of The International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2018), March 14–16, 2018, Hong Kong, pp. 67–71.
    (Winner of Certificate of Merit)

  5. Herman I. Veriñaz, Edgar M. Vela, Ronald A. Ponguillo
    "Implementing a Standard Gradient Descent Algorithm on FPGA Embedded Processor for Two-Dimensional Field Sensor Calibration"
    Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science: Proceedings of The International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2018), March 14–16, 2018, Hong Kong, pp. 629–633.

  6. Efrén Herrera Muentes, Víctor Arce Domínguez, Douglas Plaza Guingla, Edgar Vela Pinela
    "Modelización y Caracterización del Efecto Temperatura en el Cuerpo Humano"
    15th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology, July 19–21, 2017, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

  7. Herman I. Verinaz, Edgar M. Vela, and Ronald A. Ponguillo
    "A Dual Extended Kalman Filter for Tilt Estimation"
    Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science: Proceedings of The World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2017), July 5–7, 2017, London, United Kingdom, pp. 469–473.
    (Winner of Certificate of Merit)