Bio
Luis Pacheco is currently working as Chief of Technological Research at the Regulatory Policy Department at OSIPTEL, the public telecommunications services regulatory agency in Peru. In this position, he is responsible for following up the last advancements in telecommunications technology, new services and convergence aiming at finding suitable applications to fulfill the current lack of telecommunications services in some areas of the population at Peru, and to support the Policy design to facilitate adoption of new technology. His main interest is convergence of telecommunications technologies such as data networking, wireless, and multimedia applications.
He came to Boulder for his MS in Telecommunications as part of the Fulbright Graduate Scholarship program, and had the opportunity to work as TA for the Advanced Telecommunications Lab. Luis also had the opportunity to work as an intern for several local companies including: Level3 Communications, CableLabs and Baseline Wireless. Before coming to Boulder he worked at OSIPTEL as a Technical Analyst, supporting the design of the regulation of broadband and wireless services, and at Motorola of Peru during the deployment of the first CDMA network in Latin America.
Education
Luis holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, a Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is currently working towards the Engineering Management Degree at the same university as a CAETE student.