Mónica Karel Huerta, received her M.Sc. degrees in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) Venezuela in 1999 and 1994, respectively, and her Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in telematics engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) in 2006. She is with the Telecommunications and Telematics Research Group (GITEL), Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador.
She is a full professor at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana of Cuenca–Ecuador, Cuenca, Ecuador. She was a professor, dean of graduate studies, coordinator of the doctorate in engineering, and the founder of the Networks and Telematics group at USB. She was a researcher at the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas Escuela Politécnica del Ejército in 2014, and in 2015 and 2016 she was also a researcher at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana of Cuenca, both under the Prometeo program of Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Ecuador.
Her research focuses on wireless networks, wireless sensor networks, precision agriculture, the Internet of Things, and telemedicine. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, vice president of the IEEE Ecuador Section for 2020–2021, and a member of the IEEE Women in Engineering, Women in Communications, and Women in Engineering in Medicine and Biology.
