Fernando Díaz-de-María (M'97) received the Telecommunication Engineering degree and the Ph.D. degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. From Oct. 1991 to Oct. 1995, he worked as a Lecturer at Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. From Nov. 1995 to Sep. 1996, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. From October 1996 to December 2017, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Signal Processing and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Madrid, Spain. He is now Professor in the same Department. His current research interests include deep learning, image and video processing and computer vision. His research work has led to more than 100 publications in international conferences and journals. He has led numerous projects and contracts in these fields. He has advised more than ten PhD theses. He received the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in GSM Applications Award (Official Telecommunication Engineer Association) in 1996, and the ICIP 2011 Best Paper Award.