Sonia López is a Senior Research Professor A, attached to the Department of Computational Sciences and Engineering of the Centro Universitario de los Valles, Universidad de Guadalajara. She received a Doctor of Science in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Computing, from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of the National System of Researchers level-1 of the National Council of Science and Technology, and she has the Desirable Profile Recognition by the Program for Teacher Professional Development. Her disciplines of interest are modeling biologically inspired cognitive functions, distributed systems based on autonomous agents, and developing applications based on software engineering, among others.
Dr. Gerardo Ortiz-Torres received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the National Research and Technological Development Center (CENIDET) in 2014 and 2018, respectively. He is currently a Professor and a researcher with the Centro Universitario de los Valles, University of Guadalajara. His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control systems with applications in unmanned vehicles and process engineering.
Dr. Felipe D.J. Sorcia-Vázquez was born in Orizaba, Mexico, in 1985. He received a B.S. degree in electronics engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Orizaba, Mexico, in 2008, an M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering, and a doctorate from the Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (CENIDET), Cuernavaca, Mexico, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He is currently a Professor and a researcher at the University of Guadalajara. His research interests include model predictive control, distributed and decentralized model predictive control, nonlinear control, and real-time control applications.