He received the B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo, in 1998. From 2003 to 2008 he was at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering. From 1998 to 2003 he was a member of the technical staff at Bellsouth Montevideo. His research interests lie in the areas of communication, signal processing, and networking. His current research focuses on wireless communications and networking, distributed signal processing, wireless sensor networks, and communications for mobile robots. He is a Fulbright scholar and received the NSF CAREER award in 2010. He is also the recipient of student paper awards at ICASSP 2005 and ICASSP 2006.