Ángel Encalada-Dávila

B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering

ESPOL Polytechnic University

Biography

Ángel is a graduated Mechatronics Engineer at ESPOL Polytechnic University, in Ecuador. His academic formation is related to Mechatronics Design, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Biomechatronics Systems, Mobile & Articulated Robots, among other.

Currently, he works as software engineer in an important ecuadorian ATM company. Also, he is enrrolled as researcher in areas like Computer Modeling (Fuel Cells), Structural Health Monitoring and Fault Prognosis (Wind Turbines).

He has knowledge in Unmanned Vehicle Simulation (Drones) and Reinforcement Learning. His main motivation is developing innovative solutions for real problems and with added value.

Interests

Fault Prognosis in Wind Turbines
Structural Health Monitoring
Machine & Deep Learning
Renewable Energy
Reinforcement Learning

Education

B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering, 2021
ESPOL Polytechnic University
B.Tech. in Electrical Installations, Devices and Machines, 2016
College of Baccalaureate "Jambelí"

Skills

Python

Pytorch

KTC Suite

Autodesk Inventor

Microsoft Office Suite

MATLAB

Experience

Software Engineer

CMS Business Solutions

Jun 2020 – Present Guayaquil, Ecuador

Technical support for ATMs in banking, monitoring, hardware and software testing, information-logs analysis, and troubleshooting.

Kalignite | MySQL | Hyosung | Diebold | NDC Protocol

Mechatronics Design Assistant

MELACORP S.A.

Feb 2020 – May 2020 Guayaquil, Ecuador

Development of a mobile app to monitor pumping stations in shrimp farms.

Java | Android Studio | Node-RED | TIA Portal

External Researcher

Control, Dynamics and Applications Laboratory (CoDAlab - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Oct 2019 – Present Barcelona, Spain

Academic Instructor

ACPrime

May 2019 – Jun 2020 Guayaquil, Ecuador

Teaching beam and column deflection, mechanical stress, Mohr´s circle, forces, and moments. Likewise, teaching AC/DC motors operation, three-phase and mono-phase circuits, transformers, and magnetic circuits.

Research Assistant

ESPOL Polytechnic University

May 2019 – Jun 2020 Guayaquil, Ecuador

Developing machine learning models to make network topology fault prediction, and on the other hand developing models to make body postures classification in oral presentations.

Python | Scikit-learn | Pandas | Matplotlib

Research Assistant

ESPOL Polytechnic University

May 2019 – Oct 2019 Guayaquil, Ecuador

Developing machine learning models to study data related to commercial activity, criminal activity, and mobility patterns at intra-urban level.

Python | Pandas | Matplotlib | LaTeX

Teaching Assistant

ESPOL Polytechnic University

May 2019 – Oct 2019 Guayaquil, Ecuador

Teaching to program in Python language.

Python | Pandas | Matplotlib

Research Assistant

LabFREE ESPOL (Energy Renewable Sources Laboratory)

Feb 2018 – Present Guayaquil, Ecuador

Doing computer modeling of porous media applied to fuel cells to improve mechanical properties of GDLs and its efficiency.

Python | MATLAB | OpenPNM | ParaView | LaTeX

Certifications

Deep Learning Nanodegree

Udacity May 2020

Studying cutting-edge topics such as Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Generative Adversarial Networks, and Network Deployment to build projects in PyTorch and NumPy.

See certificate

Web Data Analytics, Mining User Opinions

Mobile & Web Technologies and Data Science Research Club, ESPOL Dec 2018

Text processing of datasets based on social media, e.g. Twitter. Sentiment analysis applied on social media data.

Papers elaboration and LaTex document system application

Faculty of Engineering Earth Sciences, ESPOL Oct 2018

Academic course about general structure of papers, administration and elaboration of any kind of documents on LaTex platform.

Knowledge

Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer

Udacity Oct 2019

Learn the core concepts required to design and develop robots that fly. Work with the quadrotor test platform and our custom flight simulator to implement planning, control, and estimation solutions.

Involvement

Club Member

Mechatronics Club May 2019

Research projects related to Robotics, Automation and Electronics. Activities of links with society.

Club Member

ROBOTA Robotics Club Oct 2018

Robotics competitions oriented to battle robots, line tracker robots, maze robots, LEGO creativity, etc.

Academic Vice-President

Mobile & Web Technologies and Data Science Research Club, TAWS Jan 2018 – Feb 2019

Projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and IoT.

Club Member

Argumentum Debate & Oratory Club Jan 2018 – Dec 2019

Debate & Oratory Academic Tournaments applying British Parliamentary (BP) format.

Awards

1st Place I+D+i Category: Reconocimiento de las Iniciativas CTi y SA de Redes de Conocimiento y HUB

Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) & Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Senescyt) Dec 2019

Participation of Transport Phenomena Research Group at ‘Primer Encuentro Nacional de Redes y HUB de Transferencia de Tecnología’ where results about Fuel Cells research were presented.

Best Oral Presentation Finalist at Congress ‘Red Ecuatoriana de Universidades y Escuelas Politécnicas para Investigación y Posgrados’

Yachay Tech University Nov 2019

Oral Presentation titled: ‘Pore Network Modelling: Importancia del Modelamiento Computacional para la mejora de las Propiedades Mecánicas en Celdas de Combustible’

1st Place: Hackathon GeoViz Challenge 2017

Mobile & Web Technologies and Data Science Research Club, TAWS Jan 2018

Big data analysis and interactive visualizations design for data interpretation.

Events

NASA Space Apps Challenge

Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil, UCSG Oct 2019

Category: What the world need now is?, Sub-category: Health makes wealth

Inter-university Debating & Oratory Tournament, TODI-PUCP

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP Apr 2019

Debating & Oratory Tournament with delegations of Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Spain, USA, Mexico and Argentina. Positioned in Top 30 of Best Speakers & Debaters.