María-José Escobar is an Associate Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, and Principal Investigator of the Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E), Valparaíso, Chile. Her main research interests relate to biological vision, computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics. At the AC3E, she is leading the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics research line. She is currently studying computational strategies performed by the mammalian retina.