Gabriel Díaz is an associate professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED). He received the M. Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from UAM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). He has worked for several IT companies, as Digital Equipment Corporation or Cisco Systems, during 15 years. Afterwards he founded his own company, ADSO, dedicated to consulting and learning activities related with communications networks, information security and IT services management. Since 2006, he works for UNED, where he leads the Industrial Electrical Electronics and Control Engineering Research Master.
He has participated in many national and international research projects, related with "e-learning” and new technologies applied to distance education. He is a senior member of the IEEE and also member of ACM. He has been vice-chairman of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society since 2006, and chairman
Since 2012. He participates regularly as technical reviewer for several international journals and conferences.