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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. During 2022 collaborated with the Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Since November of 2024 he is a visiting professor in the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, USA.

His research interests are complex systems analysis and simulation, optimization, information theory, and quantitative linguistics. His current research focuses in developing methods for extracting maximum information from time series and data-sets and the study of the mathematical modeling process. Gerardo L. Febres has published more than twenty papers and has over 160 citations. According to publons.com, he is among the 1% of top reviewers worldwide.