Professor / researcher at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) - Spain. Research lines: Indoor localisation, Distributed Computing, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.
Manuel Castillo-Cara, et al. MIMO-Based Indoor Localisation with Hybrid Neural Networks: Leveraging Synthetic Images from Tidy Data for Enhanced Deep Learning. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2025.3555067. (IF: 8.7 , Q1 – SJR: 4.12, Q1).
Jiayun Liu, Manuel Castillo-Cara, et al. On the Significance of Graph Neural Networks with Pretrained Transformers in Content-Based Recommender Systems for Academic Articles Classification. Expert Systems. DOI: 10.1111/exsy.70073. (IF: 3, Q2 – SJR: 0.74, Q2).
Eduardo Yauri-Lozano, Manuel Castillo-Cara et al. Generative Adversarial Networks for Text-to-Face Synthesis & Generation: A Quantitative-Qualitative Analysis of Natural Language Processing Encoders for Spanish. Information Processing & Management. 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2024.103667. (IF: 7.4, Q1 – SJR: 2.06, Q1).
Edgar Huaranga-Junco, Salvador González-Gerpe, Manuel Castillo-Cara et al. From cloud and fog computing to federated-fog computing: A comparative analysis of computational resources in real-time IoT applications based on semantic interoperability. Future Generation Computer Systems. 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2024.05.001. (IF: 6.2, Q1 – SJR: 1.55, Q1).
Michael Vera, Kewin Cuadros, Manuel Castillo-Cara et al. BeeGOns!: A Wireless Sensor Node for Fog-Computing based Smart City Platforms. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2023.3305575. (IF: 2.7, Q2 – SJR: 0.73, Q1).
Reewos Talla-Chumpitaz, Manuel Castillo-Cara et al. A Novel Deep Learning Approach using Blurring Image Techniques for Bluetooth-based Indoor Localisation. Information Fusion. 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2022.10.011. (IF: 14.7, Q1 – SJR: 5.65, Q1)
Manuel Castillo-Cara et al. TINTO: Converting Tidy Data into Image for Classification with 2-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks. SoftwareX. 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2023.1013911. (IF: 2.4, Q2 – SJR: 0.54, Q2).
Alonso Tenorio-Trigoso, Manuel Castillo-Cara et al. An Analysis of Computational Resources of Event-Driven Streaming Data Flow for Internet of Things: A case study. The Computer Journal. 2023. DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxab143. (IF: 1.5, Q3 – SJR: 0.48, Q2).
Luis Vasquez-Espinoza, Manuel Castillo-Cara and Luis Orozco-Barbosa. On the Relevance of the Metadata used in the Semantic Segmentation of Indoor Image Spaces. Expert Systems with Applications. 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115486. (IF: 8.67, Q1 – SJR: 2.07, Q1).
Giovanny Mondragón-Ruiz, Alonso Tenorio-Trigoso, Manuel Castillo-Cara et al. An Experimental Study of Fog and Cloud Computing in CEP-based Real-Time IoT Applications. Journal of Cloud Computing. 2021. DOI: 10.1186/s13677-021-00245-7. (IF: 3.42, Q2 – SJR: 1.05, Q1).
📚 Books and chapters
Book: Manuel Castillo-Cara. GeoGebra en el Aula. Aplicaciones Matemáticas aplicadas al aula con GeoGebra. 📖 ISBN: 9798379088873, Ed. Amazon. 📕 Ver libro.
Chapter: Hancco et al. Cost-Effective Advanced Remote Diagnostics of Sucker Rod Pumping Wells From Dynamometric Charts: A Deep Learning Approach. IGI Global, 2024. DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0740-3.ch009
Chapter: Manuel Castillo-Cara. Combating Multipath Fading in Indoor Positioning with Asynchronous Power Transmission Techniques. COST Action INTERACT WG2 Whitepaper. COST CA20120 INTERACT Working Group 2 (Signal Processing and Localisation). 2024. Link.
💻 Software copy rights
TINTORERA – Manuel Castillo-Cara y Raúl García Castro. Registro Propiedad Intelectual: 16/2023/4624. Link.
TINTORETTO – Manuel Castillo-Cara y Raúl García Castro. Registro Propiedad Intelectual: 16/2023/5491. Link.
🏅 Patents
Dispositivo electrónico para seguimiento y localización de personas o animales. Expediente: 002758-2016/DIN. Resolución: 000417-2019/DIN-INDECOPI. Título N.º: 1151, Perú, 2019. Link
🎓 International Tutorials
Improving Deep Learning by Exploiting Synthetic Images. 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2024 Link al evento | 📂 Materiales
🏆 International Competitions
3th postion – IEEE OPEN XVIII Latin American Robotics Competition (LARC/CBR). Robot with autonomous navigation using fuzzy logic and intelligent vision.
3th postion – IEEE OPEN XVII Latin American Robotics Competition (LARC/CBR). Fast and precise robot for moving small containers.
📜 Technical reports
Principles and recommendations to make data.europa.eu data more reusable. European Data Portal, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022 DOI: 10.2830/9342
🌍 Congress
Hybrid Neural Network-Based Indoor Localisation System for Mobile Robots Using CSI Data in a Robotics Simulator. 5th International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems (ROBOVIS). Portugal. 2025. Link.
Phenotypes of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and all-cause mortality. 2022 Annual Meeting of the American College of Epidemiology. USA, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.08.036
Identification of risk zones for road safety through unsupervised learning algorithms. 16Th International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology (LACCEI). Peru. 2018. DOI: 10.18687/laccei2018.1.1.413.
Supervised learning algorithms for indoor localization fingerprinting using BLE4.0 Beacons. 4th IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence. Peru. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/LA-CCI.2017.8285716. (SJR: 0.12).
Citizen security using Machine Learning algorithms through Open Data. 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM). Colombia. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/LATINCOM.2016.7811562. (SJR: 0.22).
Ray: Smart indoor/outdoor routes for the blind using Bluetooth 4.0 BLE. Procedia Computer Science - 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT). Madrid. 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.153. (SJR: 0.258).