María Díaz was born in Spain, in 1990. She received the Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in 2014, the master's degree in system and control engineering jointly from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia, Madrid, Spain, in 2017 and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication technologies and computer engineering from the ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in 2021. She developed her research activities with Integrated Systems Design Division, Institute for Applied Microelectronics, ULPGC. Additionally, she conducted a research stay with GIPSA-Lab, University of Grenoble Alpes, France, and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Her research interests include image and video processing, development of highly parallelized algorithms for hyperspectral image processing, and hardware implementation.