Teresa Guarda is a Full Professor at Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena (UPSE), Ecuador, and a researcher at the ALGORITMI Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal. She completed her PhD in Systems and Information Technologies at the University of Minho. At UPSE, she founded the CIST Research and Innovation Center in 2019 and was its first Director until February 2023. Her academic work has been developed mainly in Information Systems, Business Intelligence, Data Intelligence, Data Science, and digital transformation, with attention to how technologies can support decision-making in real organizational contexts. She is the creator and General Chair of ARTIIS and has been involved in several international research initiatives and workshops in information technologies, innovation, sustainability, and knowledge integration. She has published widely in indexed venues and collaborates as editor and reviewer for journals, books, and international conferences. Her current interests include Business Intelligence, knowledge management, cybersecurity, IoT and edge-based systems, education, healthcare, and interdisciplinary approaches to the use of emerging technologies.