Abel Sanchez

Executive Director & Research Scientist, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Abel Sanchez holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His areas of expertise include the Internet of Things (IOT), radio-frequency identification (RFID), simulation, engineering complex software systems, and cyber-physical security. He teaches graduate courses in Information engineering, cybersecurity, and software architecture. For the past six years, his research has focused on architecting large scale distributed simulation systems.

In addition, he teaches a variety of courses through MIT Professional Education covering topics such as cybersecurity, AI digital transformation, blockchain, cloud, devops and more.