John Kern was born in Santiago, Chile. He received his MSE and a PhD from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile, in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and completed his postdoctoral studies in 2014 at the same institution. His research topic was fault-tolerant systems. He is a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, in the areas of automatic control and robotics. He has developed laboratories on control systems theory, signals and communication systems, and electronics. Since 2016, he has served as the Head of the Laboratory of Process Control. He is currently the Director of the Doctoral Program in Engineering Sciences with a mention in Automation at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.