Hugo Posada-Quintero, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Overview
Hugo F. Posada-Quintero is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his BS in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Distrital in Colombia in 2005 and his MS in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia in 2008. In 2012, Dr. Posada-Quintero received a doctoral scholarship from the Colombian government to pursue his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, which he completed in 2016. His dissertation focused on novel techniques to assess the autonomic nervous system using electrodermal activity. Dr. Posada-Quintero has established a research program focused on biomedical signal processing, wearable sensors, and the interpretation of physiological signals using machine learning for the detection and prediction of stress, fatigue, pain, emotion, cognitive performance, oxygen toxicity, and heart failure, among others. He has received over $6 million in research funding from agencies including the NIH, the Office of Naval Research, the National Institute for Undersea Vehicle Technology, and the Military Operational Medicine Research Program. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications.
Education
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2016
Recent/Selected Publications
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