Carolina Del-Valle-Soto is currently the Head of the Engineering Computer Academy at Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico. She has a BS in Electronics Engineering. She completed her MS in Electronics Engineering (Telecommunications) and graduated with honors. She has a PhD in
Information Technology and Communications and graduated with honors. She is a Titular D researcher professor and belongs to the National System of Researchers, Level I. Carolina is currently a reviewer for the European Commission in the area of Frontier Technology and Doctoral Networks. Her main skills are related to the application and development of telecommunications, specifically wired and wireless networks, programming, and security.
Ramon A. Briseño received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.Sc. degree in Information Technologies from the Universidad De Guadalajara in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He received an honorific mention as the Best Student of the Generation 2014 for the B.Sc Computer Science program. He worked as a .NET developer (TI) at Emerson, El Sato, Jalisco, Mexico, from 2014 to 2016 and as a Web developer in Vue.js and Express (TI) for City Hall of El Salto: El Sato, Jalisco, from 2019 to 2020. Currently, he is teaching in the Engineering Department of the Universidad Panamericana and in the Master of Information Technologies program of the Universidad de Guadalajara. He is also
studying in the Ph.D. program for Information Technologies at the Universidad De
Guadalajara. He is interested in research projects on the promotion of mobility and health using data science and artificial intelligence.
Ramiro Velázquez is a Full Professor with the Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad Panamericana (Aguascalientes, Mexico). He has been the Director of the Mechatronics Engineering program, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Vice-Rector for Research. He is currently the General Vice-Rector of this campus. He received his Engineering degree in Electronics from Universidad Bonaterra (Mexico) in 1999, his MSc degree in Control Systems from INSA-Lyon (France) in 2000, and his PhD in Robotics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie—Paris 6 (France) in 2006. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at
WSKSiM (Poland) and the Universidad de La Salle (Colombia). He frequently serves as an expert evaluator for the European Commission, CONACYT (Mexico), COLCIENCIAS (Colombia), FONCyT (Argentina), and MoST (Israel). His main research interests are mechatronic systems, assistive technology, haptic and tactile devices, and human perception. His research projects on assistive
devices for visually impaired and blind people have been featured in IEEE Spectrum, CBS News, and BBC Horizons, among others. He is a Level I member of the Mexican National Systems of Researchers (SNI).
Paolo Visconti has been carrying out research and teaching activities as an Assistant Professor in Electronics at the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Italy, since 2001. He received a degree in Electronic Engineering (laude) from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in 1996 and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Leece, Leece, Italy, in 2000. He worked on his PostDoc at the Microelectronic Center of the Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, from April 2001 to December 2001. From January 2001 to September 2002, he carried out research at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (University of Lecce) focusing on the design and fabrication of low-dimensional hybrid electronic-molecular devices. Since October 2002, he has
been a researcher in the scientific-disciplinary sector ING-INF/01—Electronics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Lecce (then of Salento). His research interests include the design of PIC-based boards for monitoring/data acquisition, remote control of complex facilities, and electronic systems for automation and automotive.
José Varela-Aldás is an Industrial Engineer in Automation Processes from the Universidad Técnica de Ambato (2014) and has a Master’s degree in Control Systems and Industrial Automation from the
Escuela Politécnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador (2016). He obtained a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Spain (2022). He was an Associate Professor at the Universidad de la Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, where he taught subjects including General Electronics, Electrical Measures, Industrial
Control, and Power Electronics. He is currently a Full Professor at the Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica in subjects including Robotics, Electrical Engineering, and Electricity and Industrial Electronics. His areas of interest are IoT, control systems, robotics, and virtual reality. He was the
Winner of Best Young Researcher at IEEE Ecuador in 2023.
