Yeray Mezquita is an Informatics Engineer with a master's degree in Intelligent Systems from the University of Salamanca (Spain). He is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at the University of Salamanca, with a focus on blockchain technology and the automatization of traditional IT systems with this P2P distributed technology. He has a pre-doctoral fellowship co-financed by the University of Salamanca and Banco Santander, and he is associated with the BISITE Research Group (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems, and Educational Technology) at the University of Salamanca. His main research and development interests include Blockchain and Internet of Things technologies, Edge Computing, Systems Optimization, and Artificial Intelligence.