Presidente EMBS.
Roberto Lavarello received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2000, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the director of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program and the Medical Imaging Laboratory from the same institution. His research is primarily focused on the formation and processing of images for the non-invasive assessment of pathological conditions. He is a senior member of IEEE and a former Fulbright scholarship recipient. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2010-2012) and is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control and the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. He is currently a member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing, the IEEE SPS Technical Committee on Bio Imaging and Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Steering Committee, the IEEE IUS Technical Program Committee, and an elected member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE EMBS.