Eduardo Sanchez received the diploma in electrical engineering from the Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, in 1975 and the Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1985.

He is Professor of Computer Science at the EPFL and Dean of the ICT Department at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HEIG-VD).
His chief interests include computer architecture, VLIW processors, reconfigurable logic, and evolvable hardware.
Professor Sanchez was co-organizer of the inaugural workshop in the field of bio-inspired hardware systems, the proceedings of which are entitled Toward Evolvable Hardware (Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1996).