Maurício Araújo Dias has two postdoctorates: one in Electrical Engineering from Surrey (University of Surrey - England – 2018 and another in Electronics Engineering from UAH (Universidad de Alcalá - Spain - 2009; as well as a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brazil - 2007); a master's in Electrical Engineering from Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brazil - 2002); and a graduate degree in Data Processing Technology at Unesp (Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Brazil - 1996). He works as a lecturer and researcher in the Computer Science Department at UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Brazil). He has experience in Electric Engineering, in the following subjects: hardware, FPGAs, elliptic curves, cryptography, digital image processing, mathematical morphology, machine learning, and pattern recognition.