Alfonso González-Briones earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 2018 at the University of Salamanca; his thesis obtained the second place for the 1st SENSORS+CIRTI Award for the best national thesis in Smart Cities (CAEPIA 2018). Currently, Alfonso González Briones is Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca in the Department of Computer Science and Automation. Since 2014, he has worked in different public centres: BISITE Research Group at the University of Salamanca, in the ISLab Research Group (Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory) at the Universidade do Minho (Portugal), as postdoc "Juan De La Cierva" in the GRASIA Research Group of the Complutense University of Madrid and "José Castillejo" in the Research Group in Engineering and Intelligent Computing for Innovation and Development (GECAD) of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP/IPP), and private companies such as Virtual Power Solutions (VPS) in Coimbra (Portugal) or AIR-Institute (Spain). He has also worked as Project Manager in Industry 4.0 and IoT projects in the AIR Institute, and Lecturer at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR).