The Artificial Pancreas

Edgar N. Sanchez was born in 1949, in Sardinata, Colombia, South America. He obtained his BSEE major in Power Systems from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS, Bucaramanga, Colombia) in 1971, his MSEE from CINVESTAV-IPN (Advanced Studies and Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute), his major in Automatic Control (Mexico City, Mexico) in 1974, and his Docteur Ingenieur degree in Automatic Control from Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Grenoble, France in 1980.

In 1971, 1972, 1975 and 1976, he worked for different electrical engineering consulting companies in Bogota, Colombia. In 1974 he was a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of UIS, Colombia. From January 1981 to November 1990, he worked as a researcher at the Electrical Research Institute, Cuernavaca, Mexico. He was a professor of the graduate program in electrical engineering at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL), Monterrey, Mexico, from December 1990 to December 1996. Since January 1997, he has been with CINVESTAV-IPN (Guadalajara Campus, Mexico) as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in their graduate programs. His research interests are in neural networks and fuzzy logic as applied to automatic control systems. He has been the advisor of 21 Ph. D. theses and 40 M. Sc theses.

He was granted a USA National Research Council Award as a research associate at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA (January 1985 to March 1987). He is also a member of the Mexican National Research System (promoted to highest rank, III, in 2005), the Mexican Academy of Science and the Mexican Academy of Engineering. He has published four books, more than 150 technical papers in international journals and conferences, and has served as a reviewer for different international journals and conferences. He has also been a member of many international conferences, both IEEE and IFAC.

Research Professor, CINVESTAV Guadalajara

Ricardo S. Sánchez-Peña received the Electronic Engineer degree from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, 1978) and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (1986, 1988), both in Electrical Engineering. In Argentina, he worked since 1977 in different research institutions. He collaborated with NASA, the German (DLR) and Brazilian (CTA/INPE) space agencies. He was (Plenary) Full Professor at UBA (1989–2004), ICREA Senior Researcher at the UPC (2005–2009, Barcelona) and visiting Prof./Researcher at several Universities in the USA and EU. He consulted for companies in the USA, Spain, and Argentina. He published four books and more than 160 journal and conference papers. He received awards from NASA, IEEE, and the National Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Argentina. He is Director of the Research and Ph.D. Program at the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA) and Investigador Superior from CONICET. He has applied identification and control to acoustical, mechanical, aero, and astronautical engineering and currently to type 1 diabetes and neurobiology.

Director of the Research and Ph.D. Program, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA), CABA, Argentina

Daniel R. Cherñavvsky is Assistant Professor of Research in the Center for Diabetes Technology at the University of Virginia. The Center for Diabetes Technology is a multidisciplinary group of research academicians with specialties in Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Behavioral Medicine, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, and Statistics, working collaboratively for the advancement of technology for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Currently, Dr. Cherñavvsky is leading several artificial pancreas studies in pediatric and young adult populations. In addition, Dr. Cherñavvsky collaborates with the International Artificial Pancreas (iAP) Study Group, which joins investigators from Italy, France, Israel, Argentina, and the USA. He had conducted the first-ever outpatient clinical study of a cell phone-based artificial pancreas system and performed US and international outpatients-based trials with different generations of the Artificial Pancreas system. Dr. Cherñavvsky’s funded studies include summer and winter camps with adolescents evaluating the effect of exercise and type 1 diabetes. Dr. Cherñavvsky, a pediatric nephrologist and pediatric intensive care specialist graduate from the University of Buenos Aires, has conducted and designed clinical research projects for over 15 years in the USA. Since September 2016, he joined TypeZero Technologies, Inc., as a part time chief medical officer. Now he divides his time between academia, continuing his clinical research activities, and industry, where he is moving forward technological products aiming to optimize treatment for people with type 1 diabetes.

Assistant Professor of Research, Center for Diabetes Technology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA