María Dolores Cano Baños

Maria-Dolores Cano received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), Cartagena, Spain, in 2004. She joined the UPCT in 2000, where she is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Technologies and Communications. She has published numerous papers in international journals and conferences, mainly in the areas of traffic engineering, Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of user Experience (Qoe), security, and innovation in engineering education. She has participated as a researcher in several regional, national, and international (European) projects from public calls. Her current research interests include intelligent systems, QoS/QoE, and security provisioning in telecommunications networks. Dr. Cano is a member of the Editorial Board of the IET Wireless Sensor Systems journal, as well as a member of the Technical Program Committee of several IEEE, IARIA and IFIP international conferences. She also collaborates as an evaluator/reviewer of international research projects (e.g., FP7, RSF, …) and journals (included in the Journal Citation Reports). She was awarded a Fulbright Grant as a Post-doctoral Researcher in 2006 at Columbia University, New York, NY, and since 2007 has collaborated with several universities in South America. She was awarded the Exemplary Reviewer Recognition in 2010 by the IEEE Communications Society, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2005, and was one of the finalists of the EU TellUS awards in 2015, among other recognitions.