Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Andrés Bello University (UNAB) in Santiago, Chile. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, an MS in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Polito), Italy, and a BS in Electronics Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV), Chile.

He is also the Chairman of the IEEE ComSoc Chile Chapter for the 2023-2024 period, and a Research Associate at the Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems (CISTER), in Porto, Portugal. Dr. Gutiérrez-Gaitán has (co-)authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications in relevant journals and conferences, including IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, IEEE Access, IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE RTSS, IEEE VTC, and IEEE GLOBECOM.

Among other honors and awards, he received the "Best Paper Award" at the RAGE Workshop at DAC 2022, in San Francisco, USA, and the "Best Work-in-Progress Paper Award" at IEEE WFCS 2021, in Linz, Austria.

His research interests cover different aspects of wireless networking, real-time communication, and IoT, with an emphasis on vehicular, industrial, and maritime (over-water) settings.