The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) has mourned the death of Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Antonio Falcón Martel, whose lifeless body was found this Saturday morning on the La Garita promenade, in the Gran Canaria municipality of Telde.
In a statement, the rector Lluis Serra and the entire university community have joined the pain and have expressed condolences to his family, especially his wife Ángela Alemán, his friends and colleagues.
Antonio Falcón has been a committed colleague with the ULPGC, where he has worked as a professor at the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering and the Faculty of Computer Science, the note indicates.
Serra has indicated that he was "a researcher very committed to the ULPGC, whom we have lost too soon when he still had much to contribute to our university, to which he has always dedicated his best efforts". The Telde City Council has also shown its condolences for this "sad loss".
Falcón, who was also vice-rector for R&D&i at the ULPGC during the rectorship of José Regidor, obtained the title of Industrial Engineer in the specialty of Electricity, at the ETS de Ingenieros Industriales de Las Palmas in 1980 and in 1983 he was invested as a Doctor of Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Las Palmas.
He began his teaching and research activity at the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Las Palmas, antecedent of the current University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Later, in 1992, he became part of the teaching team of the Faculty of Informatics of the ULPGC as a full professor of the University, reaching in 1992 the category of University Professor.
Among other positions, he was director of the University Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering (SIANI) and his lines of research focused on computer vision, image analysis and description, perceptor-effector systems, interfaces and systems. smart.