Steven Santillan Padilla
Lecturer — Researcher
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL)
I'm a lecturer and researcher at ESPOL working on IoT and cloud computing, with publications at IEEE conferences including SAS, PES, and IPDPS. I also help companies migrate and improve their technology systems, bridging academia and industry.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7759-7747 
October 2026 · Accepted
A Real-Time IoT-Based Child Safety and Wellbeing Monitoring System for Smart Childcare Centers
2026 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
October 2026 · Accepted
Towards Urban Data Interoperability: A Brick-Based Semantic Architecture for Smart Building Data Spaces
2026 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
September 2026 · Accepted
Prototype of a System for the Management and Monitoring of Vessels in Artisan Fishing
OCEANS 2026 (Monterey, CA)
July 2026 · Accepted
Opening Vendor-Locked Telemetry: Non-Intrusive Decoding of Solar Inverter IoT Communications in Restricted Environments — A Case Study
IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS 2026)
May 2026 · Accepted
A Collaborative Classroom Activity for Teaching Cloud Architecting
40th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium — EduPar 2026
2026 · Under Review
How are HPC, Edge and Serverless Architectures built in the Cloud Continuum? An empirical analysis of cloud architectures in AWS
International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing
Active Learning of Distributed Cloud Architectures Through Multi-Modal Gaming
Co-DirectorDistributed systems and cloud architecture design patterns are hard for university students to internalize through purely theoretical instruction.
Next Generation Cloud Computing Systems: Design, Implementation, Evaluation and Education
ResearcherCloud computing systems need better performance and efficiency for real Ecuadorian and global use cases, and cloud computing and distributed systems concepts remain hard to teach effectively in the classroom.
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