Gabriel Perilla received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), Colombia. He was Laboratory director at Texins de Colombia (1978-1984). In 1984, he founded Ingeniería Electrónica Omega, an independent electronic laboratory. In 1994, he was the research head of the research and development division of U&G Ingeniería, a collaborative research laboratory dedicated to the design and fabrication of rectifiers, battery chargers, and uninterruptible power source systems. Parallel to his professional practice, since 1977, he has been a professor in the Department of Electronics of PUJ.