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JOSE MANUEL CASTILLO CARA

PROFESOR AYUDANTE DOCTOR

INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL

ESCUELA TÉCN.SUP INGENIERÍA INFORMÁTICA

Academic Information

  • PhD in Advanced Information Technologies. University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). 2015–2018.
  • Official Master's Degree in Computer Engineering. University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). 2014–2015.

Academic positions held

  • Lecturer in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) since 2023. He teaches undergraduate and master's degree courses in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Mining.
  • Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). 2022–2023. He has also delivered specialised courses in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning.
  • University lecturer at several institutions in Peru, primarily the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), Universidad de Lima (ULima), and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), teaching undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional development courses in Computer Science, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence.
  • Guest lecturer in doctoral and postgraduate programmes at universities across Spain and Latin America, delivering specialised courses and seminars on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Research Methodology.
  • Experience supervising and co-supervising doctoral theses, Master's Theses, and Bachelor's Theses, mainly in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.
  • Involvement in teaching innovation projects and the development of educational resources, including the 2025 Good Teaching Practices Award from the UNED Social Council, recognising an active learning initiative in technical courses based on guided practical activities and audiovisual support.

Research Activities

.His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, with particular emphasis on transforming tabular data into synthetic images, hybrid neural networks, Computer Vision, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). He is the lead developer of the TINTO method and the open-source Python library TINTOlib, which integrates different methods for generating synthetic images for use in deep learning architectures. His research background also encompasses Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), the Internet of Things (IoT), Fog Computing, and distributed computing architectures.

He has participated in numerous national and international research projects, several as Principal Investigator, and has published extensively in high-impact scientific journals. He also maintains active collaborations with research institutions across Europe and Latin America, where he has undertaken research stays and delivered specialised seminars on Artificial Intelligence.

Professional experience

  • Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Since 2023.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher under the María Zambrano Programme, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). 2022–2023.
  • Lecturer and Researcher at several universities in Peru, primarily the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI) and Universidad de Lima (ULima).
  • Head of the Technology Infrastructure Unit, Office of Information and Communication Technologies, Ministry of Education (Peru). 2020–2021.
  • Head of the Technological Processes Unit at the Information and Communication Technologies Centre (CTIC), Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru). 2015–2020.

Educational management experience

  • Member of the School Board of the School of Computer Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Since 2025.
  • Representative of the Other Teaching and Research Staff constituency on the Standing Committee of the School of Computer Engineering at UNED. Since 2026.
  • Academic Director of two university micro-credential programmes in Artificial Intelligence, funded by the European Union. UNED.
  • Coordinator of internationalisation projects and initiatives supporting UNED's Overseas Centres. UNED. 2024 and 2026.
  • Director of the Information and Communication Technologies Centre (CTIC) at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru). 2017–2020 (several terms).
Docencia

N.º of recognized sections of teacher evaluation

2

Research

RESEARCH GROUPS

  • Centro de Investigación sobre Sistemas Inteligentes de Ayuda a la Decisión (CISIAD) El objetivo principal del CISIAD es la investigación sobre módelos gráficos probabilísticos (MGPs) y sus aplicaciones en problemas de diagnóstico y toma de decisiones, especialmente en medicina. El CISIAD utilizará principalmente redes bayesianas y diagramas de influencia, aunque podrá usar también otros MGPs, como árboles de decisión, redes de Markov, modelos de Markov parcialmente observables y grafos en cadena, así como técnicas estadísticas de análisis multivariante y técnicas de evaluación económica. + info

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Desarrollo y mejora de aplicaciones, servicios e infraestructuras en HPC y centro de datos Entidad principal: UCLM. Financiado por la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España). PID2021-123627OB-C52. Sept. 2022 – Sept. 2025
  • AgIoT: Agricultural internet of things and data analytics to make better decisions in the precision agriculture context

    Redes investigación CYTED integrados con 9 universidades iberoamericanas. 2021 – 2024

  • Desarrollo de supercapacitores para el almacenamiento de energía proveniente de celdas de combustible microbianas. Aplicaciones potenciales en dispositivos portátiles y luminaria led en zonas rurales

    Proyecto financiado por Fondecyt (Perú) con contrato N.º 401-FONDECYT. 2020 – 2023.

N.º of recognized sections of research activity

2
Otros

Other activities

Patents, intellectual property, knowledge transfer

Competiciones Internacionales

  • P. Inocente, C. Calixtro, A. Chira, Z. Salcedo, M. Vera, F. Castro and M. Castillo-Cara. Robot with autonomous navigation using fuzzy logic and smart vision – Team CTIC-UNI. 3er Place in IEEE OPEN XVIII Latin American Robotics Competition (LARC/CBR). Brasil. 2019.

  • T. Tabuchi, L. Leon, A.Carrillo, B. Arotoma, M. Capcha, L.Carrion and M. Castillo-Cara. Fast and accurate robot for moving small containers for the OPEN LARC 2018 – Team CTIC-UNI. 3er Place in IEEE OPEN XVII Latin American Robotics Competition (LARC/CBR). Brasil. 2018.

Patentes

  • Dispositivo electrónico que se fija en el cuerpo para seguimiento y localización de personas o animales; con sensores de posicionamiento y rastreo, transmisión de datos y optimización de energía e información. Expediente: 002758-2016/DIN. Resolución: 000417-2019/DIN-INDECOPI. Título N.º: 1151. Perú. 2019. (Otorgada).

Derechos de autor de Software:

  • Manuel Castillo-Cara y Raúl García Castro. TINTORERA. Registro Propiedad Intelectual de la Comunidad de Madrid: M-002752/2023. 2023.

  • Manuel Castillo-Cara y Raúl García Castro. TINTORETTO. Registro Propiedad Intelectual de la Comunidad de Madrid: M-004873/2023. 2023.

Derechos de autor de Libros:

  • Manuel Castillo-Cara. GeoGebra en el Aula. Aplicaciones Matemáticas aplicadas al aula con GeoGebra. Número de asiento registral: 04/2023/802. ISBN: 9798379088873. Ed.: Amazon.

Reportes Técnicos, Estandarizaciones y otros

  • Principles and recommendations to make data.europa.eu data more reusable – A estrategy mapping report. data.europa.eu (The official portal for European Data). 2022. DOI: 10.2830/9342.