Anibal Ruiz-Barquero, Student Member, IEEE, obtained his Licentiate degree in Electronics Engineering and his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR) in Cartago, Costa Rica. Between 2008 and 2018, he worked in the industry with national and international companies, including Pipasa, GreenTech, Sensor Group C.R., Intel, and Emerson Electric Ltd. Since 2018, Anibal has been a lecturer in the Electronics Engineering Department at ITCR. Anibal is pursuing his Ph.D. at the ITCR-DOCINADE, focusing on smart and controlled IoT systems with sensor data fusion for agriculture applications. His/her research topics encompass automatic control, computer science, data science analysis using artificial intelligence techniques, IoT, sensor networks, and structural health.