Ph.D. in Engineering from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) at the University of Sydney (Australia) in 2011. Completed his studies in Electronic Engineering at Universidad del Valle (Colombia), receiving the best graduate award in 2005. Between 2016 and 2018 worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center of Excellence and Adoption on the Internet of Things (CEA-IoT) in Colombia, leading the research line in agro-industry and environment. Between 2018 and 2020 he worked in the PEAK Urban project as a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Research group in Spatial Economics (RiSE) at EAFIT University (Colombia), where he led a project to model the urban footprint growth in Latin American cities by combining machine learning algorithms with satellite images. In October 2020, Jairo joined ICESI University (Colombia) as an Assistant Professor in the Information and Communication Department within the Engineering Faculty. Jairo has worked as a lecturer and researcher at Universidad de San Buenaventura, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali (Colombia). His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and the Internet of Things, focusing on the development of intelligent products and services. He is a professional member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).