Maria-Dolores Cano is a Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) with over 24 years of research and academic experience. She co-heads the Telematics Engineering research group and teaches at both the graduate and postgraduate levels. Her research interests focus on Intelligent Systems, QoS/QoE, and cybersecurity and privacy, with numerous publications in these fields in internationally recognized journals and conferences. Dr. Cano has contributed to over 30 research projects, both publicly funded and privately sponsored. She holds two patents, a utility model and two intellectual property registrations. She is an IEEE Senior Member and serves on the editorial boards of IET Wireless Sensor Systems and the PSU Research Review. Additionally, she is a member of the Technical Program Committee for several IEEE and IFIP international conferences and frequently evaluates research proposals for national and international agencies. She is also a Fulbright post-doctoral alumnus from Columbia University, NYC, and obtained her Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2000 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and her PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from UPCT in 2004.