Carolina Varon Perez

Research

Machine learning, (biomedical) signal processing, space medicine, and wearable technology

Carolina Varon received the electrical engineering degree from the Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia, in 2005. After her studies, she joined Security Solutions, Bogotá, Colombia, where she was a Technical Support engineer for Latin America until 2007. In 2007 she moved to Leuven, Belgium, where two years later she received the M.Sc. degree in astronomy and astrophysics and in 2010 the M.Sc. degree magna cum laude in artificial intelligence, both from KU Leuven. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-STADIUS) of KU Leuven in 2015. In 2015 she got a KU Leuven postdoctoral mandate and in 2016 a postdoctoral fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Belgium. During spring 2016, she was a visiting researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and in spring 2017 she was an invited researcher at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has been assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and KU Leuven, Belgium, where she has supervised 7 (3 already finished) PhD students. Currently, she is medical space researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, and he research focuses on the development of machine learning and (biomedical) signal processing algorithms to understand how the different physiological systems interact to keep us alive here on Earth and in space.

Finished projects

• OSA+ - Multimodal Signal Analysis for Unobtrusive Characterization of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA+)

Publications