Research Group in AI, Quantum Computing and Digital Transformation
Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito
CTG-Informática explores problems at the frontier of knowledge in computing and digital systems. We work where answers are still emerging, testing bold ideas, challenging assumptions, and turning uncertainty into insight.
Our culture is open, creative, and rigorous. We treat conjecture as a starting point, experimentation as method, and error correction as a core strength. By combining research, knowledge transfer, integration, and innovation, we develop solutions with global relevance and practical impact in Colombia.
Contracted by the Government of Cundinamarca. Components: (1) Learning Management System (LMS), (2) digital pedagogical content, and (3) a virtual space for service promotion.
AI-assisted platform for auditing and traceability in healthcare claims processes.
Intelligent control and sustainable technology implementation to improve dissolved oxygen processes in hydropower operations.
Research and development project focused on improving reliability and efficiency in operation, maintenance, and management processes for renewable generation assets.
Project on reproducible computational science, distributed infrastructure, and portable execution environments for research workflows.
Applied research to extract engineering insights from code and issue repositories using data analytics and machine learning methods.
Research on complex systems design, enterprise architecture, and knowledge-based approaches for large-scale information systems and smart territories.
Erasmus+ project with international partners to develop training and governance capabilities for smart sustainable cities.
Design and development of reactive programming tools for distributed middleware handling large-scale data processing.
Research and prototyping of architectural patterns to support enterprise solutions deployed across distributed cloud and mobile infrastructures.
Framework-oriented project to accelerate design and implementation of software-based health service solutions.
S. Rodriguez, D. Benavides, H. Cadavid, and W. Garzon, "Classifying and mining design diagrams in source code repositories using transfer learning," Array, vol. 29, p. 100656, 2026.
E. Guevara Pabon, B. Cortes Gonzalez, I. C. Duran Tovar, L. D. Benavides Navarro, and A. Marulanda Guerra, "Designing a Digital Transformation Strategy for Hydropower Generation in Colombia," IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 63815-63826, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3555537.
J. F. Franco-Lopez, L. D. Benavides-Navarro, Y. Jarrah-Nezhad, and W. E. Garzon-Alfonso, "Generation of 3D Distributions Using Wasserstein Distance in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Generative Adversarial Networks," in Proc. SERA 2025, Las Vegas, USA, 2025. Accepted for publication.
E. J. Guevara Pabon, B. Cortes Gonzalez, I. C. Duran Tovar, L. D. Benavides Navarro, and A. R. Marulanda Guerra, "Beneficios de la transformacion digital aplicado al mantenimiento predictivo de unidades de generacion hidroelectrica," in Proc. ERIAC 2025, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, 2025. Accepted for publication.
V. M. Hincapie Toro, J. P. Romero Sanchez, J. E. De la Calle, A. Avendano Sanchez, L. D. Benavides Navarro, and A. Marulanda Guerra, "Estimation of Dissolved Oxygen Concentration in El Quimbo Hydropower Plant," in Proc. ICEEA 2025, Paris, France, 2025. Accepted for publication.
G. Cortes Sanchez, G. Rodriguez Gomez, E. Guevara Pabon, T. Fontani, I. Duran Tovar, L. Benavides Navarro, and A. Marulanda Guerra, "E-maintenance in hydropower energy generation: A case study of Enel Colombia," Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, pp. 105-110, 2024, doi: 10.52152/3998.
V. E. Ospina Becerra, "Perception of Service in Colombian Public Service Companies with Twitter and Descriptive Temporal Analysis," Applied Sciences, vol. 13, 2023, doi: 10.3390/app131810338.
F. del Toro Osorio and V. E. Ospina Becerra, "Designing a Data Strategy for Organizations," in Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1828, pp. 143-146, 2023, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-40942-4_11.
H. F. Cadavid Rengifo, "Improving hardware/software interface management in systems of systems through documentation as code," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 28, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s10664-023-10350-7.
H. F. Cadavid Rengifo, "System and software architecting harmonization practices in ultra-large-scale systems of systems: A confirmatory case study," Information and Software Technology, vol. 150, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106984.
W. Garzon, L. Benavides, A. Gaignard, R. Redon, and M. Sudholt, "A taxonomy of tools and approaches for distributed genomic analyses," Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, vol. 32, p. 101024, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.imu.2022.101024.
H. F. Cadavid Rengifo, V. Andrikopoulos, P. Avgeriou, and C. Broekema, "System-and Software-level Architecting Harmonization Practices for Systems-of-Systems: An Exploratory Case Study on a Long-running Large-scale Scientific Instrument," in Proc. IEEE ICSA, 2021, pp. 13-24.
M. Sanabria-Ardila, L. D. Benavides-Navarro, D. Diaz-Lopez, and W. Garzon-Alfonso, "A Semantic Framework for the Design of Distributed Reactive Real-Time Languages and Applications," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 143862-143880, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3010697.
A. Ceballos, L. D. Benavides-Navarro, and V. E. Ospina, "Towards a Measuring Framework for Knowledge Creation in Smart Cities," in Proc. 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2020), Athens, Greece, 2020, pp. 646-653.
F. Boujdad, A. Gaignard, M. Sudholt, W. Garzon-Alfonso, L. D. Benavides Navarro, and R. Redon, "On Distributed Collaboration for Biomedical Analyses," in Proc. IEEE/ACM CCGrid, 2019, pp. 611-620, doi: 10.1109/CCGRID.2019.00079.
D. O. Diaz Lopez, "COSMOS: Collaborative, Seamless and Adaptive Sentinel for the Internet of Things," Sensors, vol. 19, 2019, doi: 10.3390/s19071492.
C. P. Santiago Cely and D. O. Diaz Lopez, "Developing Secure IoT Services: A Security-Oriented Review of IoT Platforms," Symmetry, vol. 10, 2018, doi: 10.3390/sym10120669.
D. O. Diaz Lopez and C. P. Santiago Cely, "Shielding IoT against Cyber-attacks: An Event-based Approach Using SIEM," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2018, 2018, doi: 10.1155/2018/3029638.
W. Garzon Alfonso and H. F. Cadavid Rengifo, "Towards a Smart Farming Platform: From IoT-Based Crop Sensing to Data Analytics," in Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 885, pp. 237-251, 2018, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-98998-3_19.
V. E. Ospina Becerra and F. del Toro Osorio, "Smart territories competitiveness based on data use," in Proc. 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2023), pp. 479-485, 2023.
H. F. Cadavid Rengifo, "Documentation-as-Code for Interface Control Document Management in Systems of Systems: A Technical Action Research Study," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13444, pp. 19-37, 2022, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-16697-6_2.
V. E. Ospina Becerra, "Evaluacion de la percepcion de los servicios publicos en Colombia mediante text mining via Twitter," Revista de Investigacion en Tecnologias de la Informacion, vol. 10, no. 22, pp. 49-63, 2022, doi: 10.36825/1022004.
V. E. Ospina Becerra, "Neural network-based optimization of fibres for seismic retrofitting applications of UHPFRC," European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, vol. 26, no. 13, pp. 6305-6333, 2021.
H. F. Cadavid Rengifo, V. Andrikopoulos, P. Avgeriou, and J. Klein, "A Survey on the Interplay between Software Engineering and Systems Engineering during SoS Architecting," in Proc. ACM/IEEE ESEM, 2020, pp. 1-11.
W. Garzon Alfonso, "Evaluation of collaborative consumption of food delivery services through web mining techniques," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2018.05.002.
D. O. Diaz Lopez, "Using Reverse Engineering to Face Malware," Ingenieria Solidaria, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 1-26, 2019, doi: 10.16925/2357-6014.
V. E. Ospina Becerra and M. J. Suarez Baron, "Applying Ontologies for Semantic Information Integration on Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)," International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, vol. 13, pp. 12443-12448, 2018.
C. P. Santiago Cely and D. O. Diaz Lopez, "Building malware classificators usable by State security agencies," Revista ITECKNE, vol. 15, pp. 107-121, 2018.
H. F. Cadavid Rengifo, "E-health y m-health en Colombia: antecedentes, restricciones y consideraciones para el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologias basadas en software," Revista de la Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria, vol. 109, pp. 89-99, 2018.
O. P. Alvarez Pineiro, "El valor de la Inteligencia Artificial en el Servicio al Cliente: EciBot," in Proc. LACCEI, 2018.
D. O. Diaz Lopez, "Open source intelligence (OSINT) as support of cybersecurity operations: use of OSINT in a Colombian context and sentiment analysis," Vinculos, vol. 15, pp. 195-214, 2018, doi: 10.14483/2322939X.13504.
W. Garzon Alfonso, L. D. Benavides Navarro, and D. O. Diaz Lopez, "REAL-T: Time Modularization in Reactive Distributed Applications," in Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 885, pp. 113-127, 2018, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-98998-3_9.
W. Garzon Alfonso, L. D. Benavides Navarro, and M. Sanabria Ardila, "Towards Real-Time Semantics for a Distributed Event-Based MOP Language," in New Trends in Model and Data Engineering, pp. 231-243, 2018, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-02852-7_20.
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Email: luis.benavides@escuelaing.edu.co
Faculty of Systems Engineering
Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria Julio Garavito
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