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.

IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems Cloud and Distributed Computing AI and Data-Driven Systems

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Current Year Publications Timeline

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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 · Published

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

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 · Published

A Collaborative Classroom Activity for Teaching Cloud Architecting

2026 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW) — EduPar 2026

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Research Ongoing 2026

Active Learning of Distributed Cloud Architectures Through Multi-Modal Gaming

Co-Director

Distributed systems and cloud architecture design patterns are hard for university students to internalize through purely theoretical instruction.

Research Ongoing 2025

Next Generation Cloud Computing Systems: Design, Implementation, Evaluation and Education

Researcher

Cloud 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.