He achieved his MsC in Master in Computer Engineering at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 2015, where he was granted with a scholarship to develop his Master Thesis in the Department of Computer Architecture and Automation(DACYA-UCM) by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT) under the 165-ARG5-2013 grant. His Master Thesis focused on a Support System to Improve Reading Activity in Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor Patients.

Franklin Parrales has been granted a predoctoral fellowship by SENESCYT-Ecuador under the 8905-AR5G-2016 grant, to develop his PhD thesis titled Data processing methodologies in the area of E-Health for categorizing therapeutic responses in patients with migraine. He also has been granted with the HIPEAC collaboration grant (H2020-ICT-2015-687689) September 2017- January 2018 for collaboration between Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Josef Stefan Institute.

His main area of research is e-Health, data mining and machine learning.