ALBERTH ALVARADO

Professional Profile

Alberth Alvarado received (with honors) the B.S. degree in Electronics and Computer Science Engineering from Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala, Guatemala, in 2004; the M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. Currently, Dr. Alvarado is the Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Galileo, Guatemala, Guatemala. Dr. Alvarado has a broad teaching experience in mathematics. He currently teaches undergraduate courses of mathematics for engineering students and, graduate level courses in the area of operations research and data science. Dr. Alvarado’s research is concentrated in two areas. First, he is interested on game theory, convex and nonconvex programming, distributed optimization, and their application to signal processing and communication problems. Finally, Dr. Alvarado is also working in engineering education with specialized interests in the teaching and curriculum development of mathematics.