Eduardo was born in Chinácota (Norte de Santander). In 1988 he obtained his diploma as a Medical Doctor from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and as a Magister in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes in 1995. He obtained his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2000. Between 2000-2002 he worked as a Senior Researcher at the Communications and Remote sensing laboratory (UCL - Belgium), in the group of Medical Images. During 2003 he was with the group of chemical sensors at the Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (CNM - Spain). Currently he is associated professor attached to the Telemedicine Centre of the Faculty of Medicine and leads both the Bioingenium group and the Biomedical Engineering postgraduate program.

His main interests are the Medical images, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and graphic computation .