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Metzi Aguilar

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Awards
July 2002 Scholarship for the Master's degree course
December 2021 Scholarship for the HCIA-IA (Artificial Intelligence) Certification
March 2023 1st place BELLA Ideathon: Copernicus innovation challenge

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
- Nighttime lights as a proxy for economic activity

Degrees:

2004
Master     Computing and Information Technology
2002
Undergraduate     Computing and Information Technology
2023
Master     Engineering sciences
Geography, Territorial Ordering and planning

Publications resulting from Research
Cummings, Andrew; Sánchez, César; Aguilar, Metzi; García, Marielos; Cartagena, Rafael (2019). Identification and socioeconomic characterization of functional territories urban-rural in El Salvador, Central America.

Aguilar, Metzi (2018). Aplicación de los Sistemas de Información Geográfica en la identificación de los territorios funcionales rural-urbanos de El Salvador”, Conference Proceedings, VI Congress on Engeneering and Architecture (CONIA).

Aguilar, M., Munguía Y. (2016). Efectos e impactos del cambio climático en el maíz blanco en El Salvador. Variabilidad, Impactos, Vulnerabilidad y Adaptación en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio México.

Ribó, Alexandre; Quinteros, Edgar; Mejía, Roberto; López, Alejandro; Aguilar, Metzi; Rapp, Jorg. (2016). GIS-based map of malaria risk in El Salvador, El Salvador.

Aguilar, M. (2007) Isla de Méndez: Vulnerabilidad actual y futura de sus estrategias de vida rurales. Revista ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Volumen 62 No. 705, pp. 517-539. UCA, San Salvador, El Salvador.

Remote sensing, GIS and Climate Change International Conference
2025
icon-pin-location Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan (Online)
X Congreso de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
2025
icon-pin-location Universidad José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador
Territorios urbano-rurales, desafíos para la política pública
2025
icon-pin-location Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador
Seminario de difusión de investigaciones
2025
icon-pin-location Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador
VIII Congreso de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
2025
icon-pin-location Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador
Primer congreso de estudiantes de la facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
2025
icon-pin-location Universidad Nacional de El Salvador
Improving public health through low cost technology and GPS tailored access to risk and resources
2025
icon-pin-location Online
Applied Geoinformatics for society and the environment (AGSE)
2025
icon-pin-location Stuttgart, Germany
AGSE 2025
2025
icon-pin-location Bogotá, Colombia