Edgar Salazar is a Summa Cum Laude electronic engineer by training, from the Industrial University of Santander, Colombia. He holds a master's degree in microelectronics and microsystems from the Technical University of Hamburg, Germany, and a doctorate in signal processing and inverse problems from the University of Delaware, where he was recognized with the Signal Processing, Communications and Control Faculty Award. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania.