María Piles was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1982. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), València, in 2005 and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2010, respectively. In 2010, she joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, as a Research Fellow. From 2011 to 2016, she was a Research Scientist at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC, actively participating in Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) activities. During these years, she was also a Research Affiliate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. In 2016, she joined the Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, as a Research Scientist. Since 2017, she is with the Image Processing Laboratory, Universitat de València (UV) as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher.