Esteban Vera

Esteban Vera (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree, the Engineering Diploma degree in electronics engineering, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, in 1996, 1999, 2003, and 2010, respectively. From 2001 to 2007, he worked as an Electronics Engineer for different large telescope projects, first with the Paranal Observatory and then with the Gemini Observatory. In 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, and in 2013, he became a Research Scientist at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. In 2016, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He leads the Optoelectronics Laboratory and his research interests span the fields of computational imaging, compressed sensing, inverse problems, signal processing, machine learning, and adaptive optics. He is a member of the SPIE and a Senior Member of Optica. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing and Optics Express.