Dr. Eduardo Jacob

Eduardo Jacob received the B.Sc. degree in industrial engineering and the M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering, and industrial communications and electronics respectively in 1987 and 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in communications engineering in 2001 from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). For two years he worked in a public telecommunications research and development enterprise (currently Tecnalia). He spent several years as the IT Director in the private sector. Since 1994 then he has been at full time with the Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao, UPV/EHU, where he was elected as Head of the Department of Communications Engineering from 2012 to 2016. He is currently a Full Professor and leads the I2T (Engineering and Research on Telematics) Research Laboratory. He also has directed several Ph.D. theses and managed several research projects at the local, national, and European levels. His research interests include applying software-defined networks to industrial communications, cybersecurity in distributed systems, software-defined wireless sensor networks, and in-network processing.