Professor and Researcher at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (USA), with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Robotics. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC).

Throughout his academic career, he has conducted research internships at the Artificial Intelligence laboratories of Stanford and MIT, and has published more than 50 scientific papers in the field.

Since 2021, he has served as Director of the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA). He is co-founder of Zippedi, a company dedicated to the development of retail robots, with operations in Chile, Colombia, the USA, Germany, Australia, and Japan. He has received awards such as the Avonni National Innovation Award and the Ministry of Science’s Best Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Award (2021).

His areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, and technology transfer applied to the development of industry solutions.