Juan Felipe García Sierra

Juan Felipe García Sierra is a Professor at the University of León, affiliated with the College of Industrial, Computer and Aerospace Engineering within the Department of Mechanical, Computer and Aerospace Engineering. His academic career focuses on interdisciplinary research bridging robotics, computer architecture, and cybersecurity with applications in pharmacology and medical informatics. He earned a PhD in 2011 with the thesis Contributions to visual attention computation and application to the control of a humanoid robot, supervised by Dr. Vicente Matellán Olivera and Dr. Miguel Carriegos Vieira.

• Education: PhD (2011) from Universidad de León

Research Interests

García Sierra's work spans robotics (particularly humanoid robot control, augmented reality teleoperation, and elderly assistance systems), cybersecurity (malware analysis, secure coding standards, mobile application security), and medical applications (pharmacology teaching, respiratory training devices). His recent publications explore dynamic electricity tariff optimization, sports supplementation ethics, and workplace health risks in the hospitality industry.

Scientific Contributions

• Developed visual attention models for RoboCup competitions
• Innovated parallel computation techniques for centrality measures in graphs
• Created robotics-based teaching tools for pharmacology education

He has collaborated extensively with CAFE CIBERSEGURIDAD research groups and applied robotics to unconventional domains like animal herding and elderly assistance.