Gabriel H. Tucci was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an Electrical Engineering Degree (M.Sc. equivalent) from the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay in 2002 and 2003 respectively. He later received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University in 2008.

After graduation from Texas A&M in January 2009 he joined Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, where he is a member of Technical Staff in the Industrial Mathematics and Operations Research. His interests are in analysis, probability, free probability, random matrices, hyperbolic geometry and their applications to wireless communications, coding theory, information theory, compress sensing and network optimization.