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Prof. Benjamín Barán received a degree in Electronic Engineering from the National University of Asuncion - Paraguay, a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University – U.S.A. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil. With more than 3 decades of teaching and research experience at several universities, he also served as consultant for international institutions as ITU, UNDP, UNESCO, BID and World Bank among others. He received several scientific awards as the Paraguayan National Science Award in 1996 and the Pan-American PACIS Prize of Scientific Computing 2012 in Mexico. He was President of the Latin American Center on Informatics Studies – CLEI and Research Coordinator at the National Computing Center (CNC) of the National University of Asuncion. He was also the first Coordinator of Doctoral Studies in Computing Engineering in Paraguay. CLEI distinguished him with the "Honor al Mérito Latinoamericano en Informática 2013." With more than one hundred published papers, his research interests focused on Parallelization and Optical Networks, Multiobjective Optimization and Evolutionary Computation.

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