Fernando De la Torre received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications, as well as his M.Sc. and Ph. D degrees in Electronic Engineering from La Salle School of Engineering at Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain in 1994, 1996, and 2002, respectively. In 1997 and 2000, he became Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Communications and Signal Theory in Enginyeria La Salle. In 2002, he was a post doctoral researcher at Brown university (Providence, RI) and Gatsby Neuroscience Unit (London). Since 2005, he joined the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as Research Assistant Professor. His research interests are in the fields of Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Currently, he is directing the Component Analysis Laboratory and co-directing the Human Sensing Laboratory.