Anabel Fraga is Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), a Computer and Systems Engineer professional with a formal education in Computer Science, Networks, eCommerce, Technical Leadership, and Technology and Information-Knowledge Science. She is expert in Semantics and interoperability. She has more than twenty-six years of experience. Moreover, she has diverse experience with solid results in the private and public sectors and academia, spanning project management and technical leadership. Anabel is creative, goaloriented, kind and follows the team’s synergies as a teamwork advocate. She obtained the Ecommerce and Networks MSc., a Diploma of Advance Studies, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Information Systems at the UC3M. Joined with her engineering degree, she obtained highly trained skills in analytics, engineering fundamentals, and system thinking vision. She practices innovative learning methodologies based on projects applied to the real world. She wants to build relationships, a team motivated, and do new kinds of work, improving humanity in her classes and her career at all levels. In that sense, empathizing, being kind, and looking for the best is how she moves forward, inspiring others to become better human beings every day at work, in classes, and on projects. It is a holistic view!

She is in the top 4% of outstanding professors and the top 25% of researchers at the University with extensive publications in international journals and conferences. Moreover, she received several letters of congratulation from the university for the high assessment acquired from students in her classes. The students value her clarity of explanation, the diversity of learning resources, and the elearning tools used to have a complete understanding of the subject. She mentors at least four students with neurodiversity every semester and helps them mediate with other professors and administration at the University.

Anabel Fraga has been involved in professional international societies since 2010, such as INCOSE, CSTA, OMG, and SEPLN. And since 2023, Anabel has been a professional member of SWE (Society of Women Engineers). She is also certified in ININ (interactive Intelligence), ITIL, ISO20000, and INCOSE CSEP.

Furthermore, she has served actively with outstanding service to INCOSE. Anabel Fraga is Associate Director of Technical Review at INCOSE (2025-2026), the Deputy Associate Director of Technical Review at INCOSE (2023-2025), where she helps with the technical review protocols and processes for events and technical products. She is a Cohort 6 inducted member of the Technical Leadership Institute after the two-year learning program to acquire the skills and awareness of leadership in a joint journey with colleagues from worldwide (2020-2022). Also, she is president elect of the INCOSE Chapter of Spain (2025-2027), and she was Technical Director (2023-2025) and past president of the INCOSE Chapter of Spain (2022-2023), the INCOSE Technical Program Committee co-chair of the IS2023 event, the INCOSE EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) WS 2021 Event Chair, the INCOSE EMEA WSEC 2023 Event Chair, the INCOSE EMEA Associate Director of Events, and the INCOSE EWLSE EMA lead (Empowering Women Leaders in Systems Engineering).

Moreover, she was recipient of the SWE APEX Distinguished Engineering Educator Award 2023, INCOSE Outstanding Service Award 2024, and II Spanish Platform for Engineering and Security (PESI) Award for Women in Security and Engineering 2023.

She has been an active member of INCOSE, leading the Systems Engineering chapter in Spain (AEIS), consolidating the roles of the chapter, increasing the visibility of the Systems Engineering in Spain, creating new partnerships, and attracting new organizations and academia to the CAB (Corporate Advisory Board) of the chapter increasing in more than double the size of the CAB and starting annual meetings between the chapter board and the CAB members every year to align academia, industry, and the chapter on Systems Engineering initiatives in Spain. Also, the opportunity to spread kindness in her community is an extra value she wants to give to society. Her ability to work hard, dedication, humbleness, kindness even in most hard situations, ethics, and trust allowed her to demonstrate results of significant impact on the organizations she has been working with and all the industrial partners that she collaborates with due to the European and international research projects she led and continue leading at the moment, inspiring to excellence adapting the resources provided, expanding the knowledge, working hard, keeping others in mind, and creating a comfortable environment for working and learning to achieve all the goals always giving more than expected.