Dr. Marcos E. Orchard is Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Universidad de Chile, Director of the Center for Sustainable Acceleration of Electromobility (CASE), Principal Investigator at the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María), and Associate Researcher at the Center of Energy (Universidad de Chile). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Prognostic and Health Management.

His current research interests are the design, implementation and testing of real-time frameworks for fault diagnosis and failure prognosis, with applications to battery management systems, electromobility, mining industry, finance, and crime risk prediction.