Andres Ortega graduated from Universidad Politécnica Salesiana as an Electronic Engineer and received a Master's degree in Telecommunications Management at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Ferrara, Italy in 2018. He was a member of the Telecommunications and Telematics Research Group (GITEL), and he was the director of a research project in the framework of Wireless Communications and Smart Grids. Currently, he is a researcher at the Center for Sustainable Development Studies (CEDS). He has also been a professor in the Software Engineering Faculty at the ECOTEC University in Guayaquil, Ecuador since 2020. His areas of interest are 5G access networks for wireless communications, with a main focus on optimization and interference control for radio resource management. In this research area, he was awarded the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC) in 2017. Another area of exploration is the physical layer through Software Defined Radio (SDR) programming for applications with digital signal processing using SDR-USRP and RTL.