National Awards:
Member of the Telecommunications and Informatics Commission, National Academy of Engineering and Habitat, Since March 2023 (www.acading.org.ve).
Member as Individual Number, Chair 16, in the area of Physical, Mathematical, Natural, Chemical, Health and Technology Sciences, of the Academy of Mérida. July 2016. (http://bit.do/fPofx)
Member of the Board of Directors of the Doctorate Program in Applied Sciences of the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de los Andes, January 2005 - Currently. (http://www.ing.ula.ve/doctorado_ca/)
Regional Technology Award 2015 Mention: Technological Research, for the project: "Desarrollo de herramientas computacionales basadas en técnicas inteligentes de gestión de bases de datos sobre las actividades nacionales en salud y petróleo, para realizar tareas de minería de datos". Coordinators of the project: Jose Aguilar, Mariela Cerrada, Junior Altamiranda, FUNDACITE Mérida.
Jury Member of the Regional Award for Best Paper in Technology, mention: Scientific Research, 2012 and 2013 editions, Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology, Mérida, October 2014.
Award for University Teaching "Mariano Picon Salas", First Class, 2013 Edition, January 2014.
Regional Prize: Research Group- Edition 2011: Centro de Estudios en Microcomputación y Sistemas Distribuido (CEMISID), I am one of the main researchers, Mérida, awards granted October 2013.
Regional Prize on technology. Mention Technological Development - Edition 2010: project intitled "Cuentacuentos digital El Príncipe Feliz. Un ejemplo concreto de integración curricular a través de la lectura de cuentos", coauthors: A. Rangel, L. Chourio, M. Mazzarri, A. Brito, I. Hernández, M. Brito, awards granted October 2013.
President: Jury of the Regional Prize best Scientifique Paper, Edition 2011, Merida, April 2013.
Recognition of academic merit. Association of Professors of the Universidad de Los Andes, December 2010
Corresponding Member State Authority of the Academy of Merida in the area of Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Chemicals, Health and Technology. November 2009.
Professor Responsible Plan II (Staff Training Program for Research on Relay Universidad de los Andes) Altamiranda Junior Engineer in the subject: Adaptive Pattern Recognition in Amyloid Proteins using regular expressions. September 2008 - present.
2007 National Book Award, said Sustainable Development (CONAC): Learning about the Development Endogenous (Ed. A. Ochoa), CDCHT-ULA, (3 chapters in which I am co-author). Member of the Honor Committee of the VI Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Technical Engineering, University of the Andes, in October 2007.
Member of the Commission on Revision of the Venezuelan Foundation for Promotion of Research, responsible for Program of Research Promotion (PPI), March 2006-March 2008.
Member of the Jury of the National Science and Technology Award, 2005 edition, Ministry of Science and Technology, October 2005.
Best scientific work:
-Special honor for the work: "A Recognition Algorithm Using the Random Neural Network", in 3rd International Congress on Computational Sciences, Mexican Academy of Sciences Research Computer, Tijuana, Mexico, November 1996.
-Honorable mention for work entitled "Definition of an Energy Function for the Random Neural to solve Optimization Problems".Award for best scientific and technological work. Mention: Math. Awards Regional Science and Technology, Issue 1999, FUNDACITE MERIDA, July 2000.
-Tutor of the MSc thesis which won 3rd Place in the XII Latin American Competition Master Thesis CLEI, UNESCO, Cali, Colombia, October 2005, entitled: Protocol Cache Coherence for Distributed Systems, Author: R. Sumoza.
-Best Article of the session: Applications of Informatics and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering, Fourth Iberoamerican Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, CISCI 2005: Design of a Compiler Java for Expert Systems and Fuzzy Classifier Systems ¨ Coauthors: F. Rivas, Y. Menolascina, pp. 166-171, Orlando, USA, July 2005.
-One of the best articles (best papers) presented at the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatic: A Genetic Algorithm Based Clustering Algorithm , pp. 339-343, Orlando, USA, July 2005.
Board Member of the PhD Program in Applied Science, Faculty of Engineering University of the Andes, January 2005 - Present.
Distinction of the Municipal Council of the Libertador Municipality of Merida State, September 2007.
Distinction of Merida State Legislative Council: "Order Tulio Febres Cordero" in First Class, July 2004.
Distinction of the Merida State Government, "September 16 Order" in First Class, September 2003.
Recognition for collaboration: the National Institute of Educational Cooperation INCE, September 2002; Operating Republic Ministry of Defence 2006.
Jury Member of the National Award for Best Scientific Work, Technology and Innovation, 2001 edition, Mention Technological Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, October 2001.
Encouragement Award CONADES-98 (National Commission for the Development of Higher Education), CNU, Venezuela. December 1998.
Board Member of the Council of Scientific, Humanistic and Technological Development (CDCHT) of the Universidad de los Andes, in December 1998 - July 2000.
Professorial Principal Representative to the Council of Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, periods 2000-2002, 2005-2007.
Recognition for my 10 years of service at the University of the Andes in October 1998.
CONABA Premio Nacional (National Commission for the academic benefit), CNU-FAPUV, Venezuela: Level Merit I. October 1998. Merit Level II. November 2000, Level II Merit. November 2003.
Evaluator projects: CDCHT University of the Andes (March 2005), FONACIT Ministry Science and Technology (April 2007).
Award: Outstanding Achievement Award conferred by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics by my participation in the organization of the World Multiconference on Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 1997.
Member of the Subcommittee on "Applied Science" of the Council of Scientific, Humanistic and Technology (CDCHT) of the Universidad de los Andes, in December 1995 - November 1998.
Incentive Program for Research-PEI, CDCHT-ULA, Venezuela: active researchers.
-Annual Award 1995
-Annual Award 1997.
-Annual Award 2001.
-Annual Award 2003 (highest score of 976 ULA postulates).
-Annual Award 2005 (second highest score of 1090 ULA postulates)
-Annual Award 2007.
-Annual Award 2013 (highest score of more than 1000 ULA postulates).
Researcher Promotion System, SPI, CONICIT-Venezuela:
-Researcher Level I (July 1995 - July 1997) (July 1997 - July 1999) (July 1999 - July 2001)
-Researcher Level II (July 2001 – July 2004)
-Researcher Level III (Julio 2004-Julio 2008)
-Researcher Level IV (Julio 2008-2011)
Incentive Program for Research and Innovation (PEII). Observatorio Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación (ONCTI),
-Researcher C (September 2011- March 2013).
-Researcher C (April 2013- currently).
1st place in the promotion of Systems Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, in July 1987.