Gabriel Araújo e Silva Ferraz is an Agricultural Engineer from the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), a visiting professor at Universidad Nacional de Colômbia-sede Medellin (Colombia), a visiting professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), a post-doctoral researcher in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Florence (Italy), and a post-doctoral researcher in Bioclimatology for Animals and Plants at the National University of Colombia-Medellin. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering (UFLA) and a master's degree in Agricultural Engineering in the area of Agricultural Machinery and Automation (UFLA) and is a CAPES/FIPSE scholarship holder in the Brazil–USA sandwich graduation program at Iowa State University (USA). He was an adjunct professor in the Engineering Department at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and a founding member and vice-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (PGEAAmb/UFRRJ). He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the Federal University of Lavras and a professor for graduate programs in Agricultural Engineering (UFLA) and coordinator of the Agricultural Systems Nucleos (NESA). He has experience in the areas of digital and precision agriculture, remotely piloted aircraft, digital and precision livestock, geostatistics, and agricultural and livestock mechanization.