I was born in Pasto - Colombia in 1986. I received my degree in electronic engineering, Master's in industrial automation and PhD in engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Manizales, Colombia, in 2008, 2010 and 2013, respectively. In 2012, I undertook my doctoral internship at KU Leuven – Leuven, Belgium. From 2013 to 2014, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Université Catholique de Louvain – Louvain la-Neuve, Belgium. From 2014 to 2015, I worked as an assistant teacher at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia - Pasto, Colombia. From 2015 to 2017, I worked as a researcher/professor at Universidad Técnica del Norte - Ecuador. From 2017 to 2020, I worked as a lecturer at the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences from Yachay Tech University - Ecuador. From 2020 to 2022, I worked as a Consultant and Curriculum Author at deeplearning.ai.Currently, I am working as an assistant professor at the Modeling, Simulation and Data Analysis (MSDA)Research Program from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University – Morocco. I work as a Master’s thesis advisor with the Artificial Intelligence Master’s program from Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)– Spain. I am the founder and the head of the SDAS Research Group. As well, I work as an invited lecturer and an external researcher at Corporación Universitaria Aut´onoma de Nariño - Pasto, Colombia, anda member of SEDMATEC Research Group.Also, I have worked as an external thesis advisor and collaborator with PhD programs from Universidad de Granada -Spain, Universitat Politècnica de València - Spain, and Universidad Nacional de La Plata -Argentina. I am an external collaborator at Writing Lab from Tecnológico de Monterrey – Mexico. I have served as an organizing committee member (general chair, session chair, competitions chair) and a keynote speaker in several conferences. Also, I have served as a guest editor for the Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal.I have worked on various medical, biological, and education applications involving complex, high-dimensional data processing, and signal, image, and video analysis. At the theoretical research level, my main interests are spectral and kernel based methods for exploratory analysis and data representation.