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Gerardo L. Febres is a mechanical engineer from Simon Bolivar University (1982). He holds a Master’s Degree in Operations Research from Cornell University (1989) and a Science Ph.D. from Simon Bolivar University (2015). He worked in the Venezuelan oil industry from 1982 to 1994, primarily dedicated to optimizing production operations and automation.

Between 1995 and 2010 he worked in his own company (Tiempo Real IS, S.A.), developing computerized systems and workflows for controlling the Venezuelan Registry System. During 2004 and 2005, he was a consultant for the Interamerican Development Bank.

He returned to the academic environment in 2011 to pursue a Ph.D. Gerardo L. Febres is currently an Associate professor and researcher at the Processes and Systems Department at Simon Bolivar University.

His research interests are complex systems analysis and simulation, optimization, information theory, and quantitative linguistics. Gerardo L. Febres has published more than twenty papers and over 200 citations. According to publons.com, he is among the 1% of top reviewers worldwide.