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Photograph taken at a park in the outskirts of Boston during my Ph.D. period.
I was born and raised in Panama City, Panama. I enjoy jogging, art in general (classical literature such
as the ancient greek dramas and epics, more contemporaneous British literature such as Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, American
literature such as Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, and Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket,
the romantic poetry of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, the essays of Spanish great Jose Ortega y Gasset, the enlightening
work of Panamanian genius Octavio Mendez Pereira (founding Father of the University of Panama)..., among other works of literature,
classical and modern music, such as afro-cuban jazz and salsa (Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Oscar de Leon, Ruben Blades, Ibrahim
Ferrer, Manuel Puntillita Licea, Pio Leyva), Frank Sinatra, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, The Beatles, The Doors, The Animals,
Creedence Clearwater Revival, among others; I am a fan of Beethoven, in particular, and of Bach and Tchaikovsky; my favorites
are Beethoven's ninth, fifth and third symphonies, the violin concerto, many of the sonatas, the third and fifth piano concertos...
I enjoy novelty, the rush of creativity, good red wine, specially the Spanish and Chilean wines. I like animals and pets. I
particularly like horses and thoroughbred horse racing. I enjoy reading very much. This includes both scientific and artistic
literatures. I like Italian food, and I study the Italian language and culture.
I have a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)
and Master's Degrees from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, obtained in September 1997 and September 1994, respectively.
My area of expertise is Electromagnetic Theory and Applications including inverse problems for remote sensing and antenna
design, time reversal imaging, ultrawideband antennas, and time domain and computational methods, and my most recent areas
of expansion are quantum imaging and wireless communications.
My Ph.D. thesis concerned ultrawideband antennas, short pulse radiation, propagation and source-synthesis.
I have carried out post-doctoral work for a number of years at Northeastern University (1997-1998) and the University
of Arizona (1998-2000 and 2001-2002), with a focus on inverse problems of object reconstruction, nonradiating sources, computational
electromagnetics, and quantum computation and communication. From March 2000 to July 2003 I served an international
Fulbright period of two cumulative years in Panama where I worked at the Technological University of Panama. My research there
focused on electromagnetic source inversion, quantum information and wireless and rural telecommunications. I also
taught there a number of graduate and undergraduate Electrical Engineering courses.
For more information about my 2000-2003 International Fulbright Period at the Technological University
of Panama you may wish to visit the accompanying website below.
International Fulbright Period at the Technological University of Panama
The general area of wireless communications has become a major part of my current and projected research.
In 2003 I was an expert witness appointed by the Panama Court of Justice in the Bellsouth versus Tricom case concerning the
deployment of Motorola's integrated digital enhanced network (iDEN) technology. In 2003 I worked as a research associate in
wireless communications at Arizona State University where I expanded my research expertise on wireless ad hoc networks and
on the spatio-temporal information capacity of wireless channels from a new electromagnetic-based perspective.
After working at many universities (Northeastern University, University of Arizona, Technological University
of Panama, Arizona State University) in both research and teaching, since January 2004 I have been back at
Northeastern. My research focuses on the general area of electromagnetic inverse problems including inverse
source and scattering problems and ultrawideband time reversal imaging. I also work on spatio-temporal information capacity
of wireless electromagnetic channels for communications and remote sensing and on quantum imaging. A defining career aim
is to blend information and communication theory with electromagnetic theory in many wireless communication and remote
sensing applications using ultrawideband fields.
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