Contact Information

University Institute of Applied Microelectronics

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España

Email: 

hfabelo@iuma.ulpgc.es

Himar Fabelo received the Telecommunication Engineering and the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Technologies from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain, in 2013, 2014 and 2019. He achieved the Cum Laude qualification and the International Mention, and the Extraordinary Prize of PhD of 2018/2019. In 2015, he started to work as a Coordination Assistant and Researcher in the HELICoiD European Project, with the goal of applying hyperspectral imaging (HSI) for intraoperative brain cancer detection. In 2017, he obtained the Predoctoral Research Grant of the ULPGC and, in 2019, he achieved the Postdoctoral Orientation Period (POP) contract. He has conducted his research activity in the Integrated System Design Division, Institute for Applied Microelectronics of the ULPGC, in the field of electronics and bioengineering. In 2018, he performed a research stay in the Department of Bioengineering at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), under the supervision of Prof. Baowei Fei, working in medical HSI analysis using deep learning algorithms.

He has performed several international collaborations, having more than 25 journal publications with many relevant research institutions. He has published more than 30 international conference papers. He was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the Photonex 2016 –HSI Conference and he has act as a reviewer of more than 10 different journals. He published an international patent (PCT/EP2016/078477). He received the “Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award” at the SPIE Medical Imaging 2019, the “Best Demo Night Award” in the DASIP 2016 conference and the “Best Paper Award” in the JCE 2015 conference. He also received the First Prize in the category «PhD’s, Master’s, Degree’s project» of the “Premios Cátedra Telefónica de Investigación, Innovación y Cultura Científica 2019-ULPGC”.

Currently, he is starting his second PhD in Research in Biomedicine at the ULPGC, and he is also currently working in the continuation of the HSI application human brain cancer detection in real-time during neurosurgical operations, collaborating with different international institutions.