Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Andrés Bello University (UNAB) in Santiago, Chile. He holds a PhD 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.

Since 2023, he is also the Chairman of the IEEE ComSoc Chile Chapter, 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 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, and the "Best Work-in-Progress Paper Award" at IEEE WFCS 2021.

His main research interests cover different aspects of wireless networks, real-time communication, and IoT.