La vida es a veces sorprendente: ¡sí, nosotros lideramos una investigación sobre gemelos digitales y al mismo tiempo somos físicamente gemelos en realidad!. Nuestras carreras son prácticamente paralelas y somos entre nosotros los mejores colaboradores que podrían existir.
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tomada en 2014 durante la exposición de su tesis doctoral
Los Drs. Juan y Manuel Chiachío (MCEng, MSc, PhD) son expertos en métodos de pronóstico (PHM), aplicación de algoritmos de inteligencia artificial (AI) en ingeniería, métodos Bayesianos y modelos de mantenimiento. Ambos obtuvieron su doctorado en 2014, estableciendo un excepcional record como autores al logar más de 500 citaciones en publicaciones de alto impacto (>30), 14 de las cuales posicionadas dentro del primer decil, además de 2 patentes y 2 libros publicados. Su investigación ha sido reconocida con numerosos galardones, como la medalla de Plata de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2008) al ganar el segundo puesto de la competición de diseño estructural empleando materiales compuestos; el premio al mejor artículo global; la Beca Profesional Talentia (2010) y la Beca Nacional FPU (posiblemente la beca de doctorado individual más prestigiosa del Gobierno de España), entre otros. Their research careers boosted after enjoying research stays at the California Institute of Technology (under Prof. James L. Beck, 4 months), Hamburg University of Technology (under Prof. Karl Schulte, 2 months), and NASA Ames Research Center (under Dr. Kai Goebel, 6 months), for sure, the most transformative experience after living a science & technology immersion within the hearth of Silicon Valley. Their international careers continued after their PhD at the University of Nottingham (UK) as postdoctoral scholars of the Resilience Engineering Research Group led by Prof. John Andrews during almost 3 years, and (only Juan in 2018) at the Naval Arch. Ocean and Marine Engineering Dept., Strathclyde University (6 months). First Manuel in 2018 Manuel and then Juan in 2019 won one faculty position each at the University of Granada, Dept. of Structural Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering. Their international research careers have contributed successfully in establishing an active international network of collaborations such as Caltech, TUHH, NASA, University of Nottingham, Tech. University of Braunschweig, Politecnico di Milano, Delft University of Technology, CEA-List, DLR, American University of Beirut, Imperial College, Centrale Supelec, PARC, GE Research, SIEMENS, to cite but any (please refer to the list of collaborators). Dr. Manuel Chiachío is currently the Coordinator and Principal Investigator of one MSCA- ITN-H2020 project named ENHAnCE, being one of the younger H2020 coordinators in his country. They are both members of the scientific committee of the European Society of Prognostics, members of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, and members of the Spanish Council of Civil Engineers.
Their overall mission and vision is to transform built structures and infrastructures from being physical to cyber-physical to enhance maintenance, extend remaining useful life, and anticipate failures. In summary, they’re primary aim is to convey the required digital transformation of the built environment.