Sebastian Ratto Valderrama is a Chilean naval officer and Lieutenant with 13 years of service, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he is affiliated with the Wireless Sensors and Devices Laboratory and the Advanced Concepts Research Laboratory. He also serves as a Quantum ML Researcher for Sensing at EigenQ.
He received his B.Sc. and B.Eng. degrees in Naval Electronics Engineering from the Academia Politécnica Naval, Viña del Mar, Chile, in 2022. From 2022 to 2024, he contributed to ship-system modernization projects aboard LAM-31 Chipana in collaboration with industry partners. At Waterloo, he chairs the IEEE MTT-S Student Branch Chapter.
His doctoral research, supervised by Dr. George Shaker and Dr. Omar Ramahi, focuses on mmWave radar sensing, digital-twin modeling for dual use innovations, and hybrid quantum–classical machine learning for joint communications and sensing systems.