C. A. Blanco-Martínez earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira in 2020. Currently, he is pursuing a Master's degree in the same field. He has been actively engaged as a researcher in the Research Automatic Group at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira since 2020. His primary research interests lie in optimization and machine learning.

A. M. Alvarez-Meza received his undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering (2009), his M.Sc. degree in Engineering Industrial Automation (2011), and his Ph.D. in Engineering—Automatics (2015) from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computation Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales. His research interests include machine learning and signal processing.

G. Castellanos-Dominguez received his undergraduate degree in radiotechnical systems and his Ph.D. in Processing Devices and Systems from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics in 1985 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computation Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales. In addition, he is Chairman of the GCPDS at the same university. His teaching and research interests include information and signal theory, digital signal processing, and bioengineering.

David Cárdenas-Peña received a Bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering, an M.Eng. degree in industrial automation, and a Ph.D. in automatics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales-Colombia, in 2008, 2011, and 2016, respectively. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira in the electric engineering program. He is also a researcher in the Automatics Research Group on machine learning and signal and image processing topics.

A. Orozco-Gutiérrez received a Bachelor’s degree in law from the Universidad Libre de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, in 1996; Bachelor’s and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Tecnoloǵica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia, in 1985 and 2004, respectively; and a Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 2009. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Tecnoloǵica de Pereira. His research interest includes bioengineering.