Araceli Sanchis is a Full professor of the Department of Computer Science at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Director of the research group in Artificial Intelligence, Control, Learning and Optimization of Systems Laboratory, CAOS. She graduated in Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid (1991), and in 1994, she obtained her PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid. She also holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Her research activity has been developed in the framework of 22 competitive research projects in which she has participated as a researcher, in 7 of them as principal investigator, all with competitive public funding. She has been working on Intelligent Transportation Systems for 20 years.