Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile. Electronics and Control Engineer from the Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN) - Ecuador. He worked as a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence and Vision Research Laboratory of the National Polytechnic School. He is currently a professor-researcher at Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile in the Automation and Robotics faculty. He has investigated topics related to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Human-Machine Interaction (HMI), assistance and collaborative systems, and algorithms able to detect different non-verbal communication techniques such as gestures, actions, and human cognitive parameters. He has also worked in the area of precision agriculture using cooperative robots capable of interacting and sharing the workspace with humans. His areas of interest are robotics, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and computer vision.