Ms. Metzi Aguilar
About me
Professor and researcher, specialist in Geotechnologies and Territorial Planning at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), El Salvador.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), El Salvador. She holds two master's degrees: a Master's in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics from the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, Germany, and a Master's in Territorial Planning from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
She has 20 years of professional experience as a specialist in geotechnologies applied to the environment, disaster risk management, climate change, public health, migration, and criminology in both the public and private sectors. For the past eight years, she has worked as an undergraduate and graduate professor and researcher. The subjects she teaches are Geographic Information Systems, Information Visualization, Free/Libre/Open Source Applications (FLOSS) and Crime Mapping.
Her research fields are the application of geotechnologies and machine learning algorithms for the:
- Monitoring physical environmental variables (water quality, temperature)
- Classification of land use
- Night lights as a proxy for economic activity
Degrees:
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan (Online)
Universidad José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador
Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador
Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador
Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador
Universidad Nacional de El Salvador
Online
Stuttgart, Germany
Bogotá, Colombia