Pablo was born in Valdivia, Chile in 1985. He received his B.Sc. and P.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Chile in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Chile in 2014. In 2015-2017 he was a postdoc at the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS). Since 2018 he has been a young researcher at MAS and an assistant professor at the Informatics Institute, Universidad Austral de Chile. He also participates in the ALeRCE project. His research is about computational methods to analyze astronomical data and his areas of expertise are machine learning, deep learning, bayesian inference, statistical signal processing and information theory.

On a more personal note, he is not very good at sports, but he runs pretty fast and swims like a fish. He trusts in his cooking skills and he is bit obsessed with specialty coffee. He enjoys having long talks and playing PC videogames with his brother. He loves his wife very much.