Luz Santamaria-Granados received an M.Sc. degree in communication and information sciences from the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia, in 2011. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in Telematics Engineering at the Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia. She is a Professor at the Faculty of Systems Engineering, Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia. Her central areas of research are recommender systems, emotion recognition, wearable devices, machine learning and data sciences.