Gabriel De Pace received a B.S. degree from Western New England University in Springfield, MA in Computer Science. He received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, MA. He received an M.S. in 2016 in Education from Springfield College in Springfield, MA. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI. He has varied research interests including smart grids, software quality and safety and educational techniques for computer science.