1. GAUNAL GAUNAL Group of Automation of the National University of Colombia Prof. Dr. Ir. Jairo Espinosa Calle 80 No.65-223 Bloque M-8 Medellin-Colombia South America

2. Location in the World Colombia is the northest country of South America is about.

3. Universidad Nacional de Colombia Facts and Figures About 45000 Students 7 Locations around the country 2862 Professors and Assistants Largest university in Colombia Public institution

4. Group of Automation of the National University of Colombia Facts and Figures Created in 2000 Permanent staff: 13 Professors (distributed in 3 campus) Classified as an A type group by Colciencias (high rank) International cooperation with Universities in Belgium, Spain, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina Member of the excellence center on sensor networks together with 8 national research groups and 2 telecommunication companies

5. Group of Automation of the National University of Colombia Research Areas Computational Intelligence Modeling, Simulation and Control of Dynamic Systems Formal methods for the design of discrete event control systems Artificial Vision Systems

6. Group of Automation of the National University of Colombia predictive control Experience and record of the group in the area of predictive control More than 20 works including applications to nonlinear systems 2 Books one of them with the Advances in Industrial Control series of Springer Areas: pH control Alcohol production and Biofuels (fermentation and distillation) Enzyme production Batch and continuous polymerization reactors Food production

7. Group of Automation of the National University of Colombia Current research including MPC Studies on plant wide control applied to CDU Studies of POD model reduction applied to MPC control Studies on identification for MPC in distillation columns Studies on applications of MPC in batch polymerization Studies of MPC in the production of bio-fuels: alcohol and bio- diesel Studies on stabilizability of Batch reactors Early applications on Embedded Platforms together with microelectronics group