Noel Pérez (Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in computer science engineering, the M.Sc. degree in applied computer science, with a focus on digital image processing, pattern recognition, and machine learning, from the Universidad de Ciego de Avila, Ciego de Avila, Cuba, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in data mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning from the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, in 2015. From 2008 to 2015, he was a Fellow Researcher with the Faculty of Engineering, Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management (INEGI), University of Porto. From 2015 to 2017, he was with the Faculty of Sciences, Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Porto, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Since 2017, he has been a full-time Professor with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador. His research interests include digital image processing, data mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning.