Francisco Rau received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universidad de Santiago de Chile in 2009, the B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in 2017, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de Santiago de Chile in 2023. He has held technical and leadership roles in the telecommunications industry in Chile and Ecuador, deploying 5G NSA, MPLS/IP core network expansion, and backhaul network rollout for service providers. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Valencia, Spain, and is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow at MaxLinear, Spain, participating in the HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01 project titled Optical and Wireless sensors Networks for 6G scenarios (OWIN6G), focusing on researching efficient MAC scheduling for ultra-dense wireless sensor networks based on 802.11 standards. His research interests include artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to telecommunications, energy efficiency, network traffic forecasting, and WiFi standards.