Juan Cristobal Zagal is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. He received his M.Sc. degree in Scientific Computing from the Royal Institute of Technology in 2002 and his PE (EE) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Universidad de Chile in 2000 and 2007, respectively. Outside academia, Dr. Zagal worked as a real-time systems specialist for the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (2004-2007). Before joining Cornell he was a researcher at the Center for Neuroscience of Valparaiso. His main research interests are Evolutionary Robotics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He received the RoboCup Engineering Challenge Award in 2004.