Leandro Barajas
Senior Member
Region 3 (Southeastern US)
United States
Address
(AL), United StatesBiography
Leandro G. Barajas was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1973. He is currently a Huntsville, AL resident and a U.S. citizen. In 1998 he received the Honor Degree in Electronics Engineering as Valedictorian from the Universidad Distrital F.J.C., Bogotá, Colombia. Afterwards, he worked for 3 years in oil field SCADA systems in Latin America as a Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.). In 2000 & 2003, he was awarded M.S. & Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. During his graduate studies he worked at the Georgia Tech’s Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) where he developed a revolutionary technology for electronics manufacturing control, which was successfully patented and exclusively licensed for a number of years to a major electronics manufacturing company.
In 2003, he joined the General Motors R&D Center, Manufacturing Systems Research Laboratory as Senior Research Engineer. Since then, he has also been in rotational assignments as Senior Plant Engineer at the Lake Orion Assembly Plant and as Senior Manufacturing Engineer, at the Controls, Conveyor, Robotics and Welding Division. He is currently a Staff Researcher focusing on the areas of Robot Vision, Intelligent Perception, and Plant Floor Systems & Controls. His intellectual property (IP) contributions to GM include 24 patents & patent applications, 8 GM trade secrets, and 7 Defensive Publications for which he has been distinguished with a GM Inventor Milestone award and a GM IP Gold Award.
Dr. Barajas is a Senior Member of the IEEE (S’95–M’99–SM’06), Senior Member and former Chapter 069 Programs Chair of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Member of SAE International, and Elected Full Member & GM Chapter President of SIGMA XI (The Scientific Research Society). In 2000 & 2003 he received M.S. & Ph.D. OMED Tower Awards from Georgia Tech. During his tenure at GM he has been distinguished with the 2005 GM R&D “Spark-Plug” Award, two 2006 GM “Boss” Kettering Awards (GM's highest honor), the 2006 GM Chairman's Honors Award, the 2006 GM R&D Center People’s Choice Award, the 2006 and 2008 GM R&D Charles L. McCuen Special Achievement Innovation Awards, the 2007 NSF GOALI Award, and with the 2007 SME Kuo K. Wang Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award.
For the last 6 years Leandro has been a committed Mentor to the US FIRST Robotics Competition for the Team 201 – “The FEDS” – GM R&D and Rochester High School. In 2006, at the International Championship Event, his team alliance was crowned the Galileo Division Winner and was ranked 3rd in the world and the top performing GM sponsored team in North America.
Contact information
Languages:English
Spanish (Español)
French (Français)
German (Deutsch)
l.g.barajas@ieee.org
http://www.LeandroBarajas.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/leandrobarajas
