Nicolás Vila Blanco

Nicolás Vila Blanco is an Assistant Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, primarily affiliated with the Information Technologies Research Center (CiTiUS). His work bridges Medical Image Processing and Deep Learning through software development and algorithm optimization.

Education includes:

• PhD in Information Technology Research (Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Coruña)
• M.Sc. in Data Science and Computer Engineering (University of Granada)
• B.Sc. in Computer Science (University of Vigo)

Research focuses on applying Artificial Intelligence to biomedical challenges, particularly in dental imaging and cardiac diagnostics. Key contributions include:

• Developing IDALib (Image Data Augmentation Library)
• Creating DenTiUS Deep Plaque software for dental plaque analysis
• Designing PrimerEvalPy for microbiome primer evaluation
• Building gVARVI for heart rate response analysis

Recent publications demonstrate expertise in:

• Clinical software development
• Deep learning architectures (U-Net, Few-Shot Learning)
• Medical imaging applications
• Biomedical data processing
• AI in dental diagnostics
• Microbiome sequencing techniques