Luis Ibáñez received a B.Sc. in Physics from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia) in 1989 and a M.Sc. in Optics from the same university in 1994. He received a D.E.A and Ph.D. degrees from the Universite de Rennes I (Rennes, France) in 1995 and 2000 respectively.
During his Ph.D., Luis Ibáñez was member of the LATIM laboratory at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne (Brest, France) and was interested in the segmentation of bone joint structures of the limbs for the purpose of studying the relationship between morphology and functionality. He also participated in a project for developing collaborative virtual environments for medical applications.
In 1999 Luis Ibáñez joined the Division of Neurosurgery of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and participated as a member of the MIDAG and CADDLab groups. His activity at UNC-CH was related with the development of algorithms for 3D/2D registration applied to image guided surgery. He also participated as developer of the INSIGHT Registration and Segmentation Toolkit sponsored by the National Library of Medicine.
He worked at Kitware Inc from February 2002 to August 2014, on projects related to medical image processing and analysis.
Luis Ibáñez currently works as Software Engineer at Google Inc. His modest contributions to the Wikipedia do not reflect the views of his employer, nor represent it in any way.