Diego Benítez (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, in 1994, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Institute of Science and Technology, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., in 1997 and 2001, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with Sensing, Imaging and Signal Processing Research Group, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester. From 2007 to 2012, he was a Senior Research Engineer with Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, where he was also an Academic Visitor with the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems and the Intelligent Infrastructure Research Laboratory (INFERLab), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Visiting Research Scholar with the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas—ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador, through the Prometeo Program of SENESCYT, Quito, Ecuador. He is currently a full-time Faculty Member with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito. His research interests include signal and image processing, and intelligent instrumentation and measurement systems for medical, energy management, security, and smart building applications.