He received the B.S. degree in electromechanical engineering (valedictorian and summa cum laude) from the Technological University of Panama, Panama City, in 1990, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. His research interests include physics-based imaging and signal processing, inverse problems, electromagnetic theory, antenna theory, and mathematical physics. He has been a Fulbright Scholar sponsored by the USA Department of State, and he serves as a Member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the Honor Societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Eta