Dr. Paula Fraga-Lamas (Senior Member, IEEE) is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering, Universidade da Coruña (UDC). She received a M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the University of A Coruña (UDC) in 2009, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the joint program Mobile Network Information and Communication Technologies from five Spanish universities in 2011 and 2017, respectively. She holds an MBA and postgraduate studies in business innovation management and sustainability. She has over 100 contributions in indexed international journals, conferences, and book chapters, and three patents. She has also been participating in over 40 research projects funded by the regional and national government, as well as research and development contracts with private companies. She is actively involved in many professional and editorial activities, acting as a reviewer, an advisory board member, a topic/guest editor of top-ranked journals, and a TPC member of international conferences. Her current research interests include mission-critical scenarios, Industry 4.0/Industry 5.0, the Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical systems (CPS), augmented/mixed reality (AR/MR), fog and edge computing, blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), and cybersecurity.
Dr. Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés (Senior Member, IEEE) received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of A Coruña (UDC), Spain, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Since 2005, he has been working with the Department of Computer Engineering, UDC: from 2005 to 2009 through different predoctoral scholarships, from 2007 to 2016 as an Interim Professor, and from 2016 to 2021 as an Assistant Professor. Since 2021, he has been working as an Associate Professor of Electronic Technology at UDC. His current research interests include IoT/IIoT systems, RFID, wireless sensor networks, augmented reality, embedded systems, and blockchain, as well as the different technologies involved in the Industry 4.0/Industry 5.0 paradigm. In such fields, he has contributed to more than 150 articles for conferences, high-impact journals, and book chapters.
