Dr. Joaquín Álvarez Gallegos is a senior researcher at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), one of Mexico’s leading research institutions. He is a Level III member of the National System of Researchers (SNII), the highest distinction awarded by the Mexican government to scientists with sustained, internationally recognized research productivity.

Dr. Álvarez Gallegos has built an internationally recognized career in the fields of nonlinear dynamical systems, chaos theory, nonlinear control, and synchronization of complex systems. His research has contributed significantly to the theoretical understanding and control of nonlinear phenomena arising in engineering and physical systems.

Throughout his career, he has authored and co-authored more than one hundred peer-reviewed scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings, which have accumulated over a thousand citations in the scientific literature, reflecting the broad impact of his work within the nonlinear dynamics and control communities. His research contributions include advances in the analysis and control of chaotic systems, nonlinear regulation strategies, and the study of complex dynamical behavior in engineering systems.

In addition to his scientific contributions, Dr. Álvarez Gallegos has played a central role in the formation of highly specialized human resources, supervising numerous M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and mentoring generations of researchers who now contribute to universities, research centers, and high-technology industries in Mexico and abroad.

Over several decades of academic activity, he has participated in national and international research collaborations, competitive research projects, and technological innovation initiatives, contributing to the advancement of nonlinear science and control engineering.

Because of his scientific leadership and long-standing contributions to the field, Dr. Joaquín Álvarez Gallegos is widely regarded as one of the leading Mexican researchers in nonlinear dynamics and control theory.

Dr. Diana del Carmen Torres Corrales is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (ITSON) and a faculty member of the Master's Program in Didactics of Sciences (virtual modality) at the Facultad de Ingeniería of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ). Dr. Torres Corrales is a member of the National System of Researchers and Innovators (SNII) of Mexico, recognizing her scientific contributions to mathematics education.

She received her B.Eng. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and her M.Sc. in Mathematics Education from the Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (ITSON). Her doctoral studies were carried out in the Department of Mathematics Education at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav), within the research line on the social construction of mathematical thinking, under the supervision of Dr. Gisela Montiel Espinosa, obtaining her Ph.D. in Educational Mathematics in March 2020.

Her research focuses on the uses and meanings of mathematical notions in engineering education, with particular emphasis on trigonometric concepts in Mechatronics Engineering and Robotics, drawing on ethnographic methods and the Socioepistemological Theory to study the mathematical knowledge that engineering students need in their professional practice.

In 2020, Dr. Torres Corrales was awarded the Arturo Rosenblueth Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities, the most prestigious recognition granted by Cinvestav to young researchers graduating from its doctoral programs. Among her earlier distinctions, in 2012 she received the Distinguished Alumni recognition in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the National Association of Engineering Schools (ANFEI).

Dr. Torres Corrales is an active member of several professional and scientific organizations, including the Latin American Research Group on the Formation of Engineers through Mathematics Education (FIME), the Latin American Committee of Mathematics Education (CLAME), and serves on the review committees of several national and international journals. Through the FIME group, she contributes to building a network of teachers and researchers focused on the teaching and learning of mathematics in engineering programs.

Dr. Juan Gonzalo Barajas Ramírez is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Division of Dynamical Systems at the Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT) in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He also leads the Complex Networks Laboratory at IPICYT. Dr. Barajas Ramírez is a Level II member of the National System of Researchers (SNII), recognizing his sustained scientific contributions in Mexico.

He received his B.Eng. in Industrial Electronics Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana in 1995 and his M.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications (Instrumentation and Control) from Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) in 1997 under the supervision of Joaquín Álvarez Gallegos. He later obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 2002 under the supervision of Guanrong Chen, a leading researcher in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.

His research focuses on nonlinear dynamical systems, chaos theory, complex networks, and the analysis and control of complex systems. During his graduate studies he began working on chaotic dynamics and complex systems, research areas that have remained central to his scientific career.

Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Barajas Ramírez conducted postdoctoral research at the City University of Hong Kong and at the FernUniversität in Hagen in Germany. He later held a research position at CICESE before joining IPICYT in 2006, where he has since played an important role in advancing research and graduate education in dynamical systems and control.

Dr. Barajas Ramírez is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Mexican Association of Automatic Control (AMCA), IEEE, and International Physics and Control Society (IPACS). He currently serves as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos and the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, contributing to the development of research in nonlinear dynamics and complex network systems.

Dr. Luis Tupak Aguilar Bustos is a full-time researcher and professor at the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnología Digital (CITEDI) of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, where he leads the Robust Control Laboratory. Dr. Aguilar Bustos is a Level III member of the National System of Researchers and Innovators (SNII), recognizing his sustained and outstanding scientific contributions in Mexico.

He received his B.Eng. in Industrial Electronics Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana in 1994, his M.Sc. in Digital Systems from CITEDI-IPN in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) in 2003.

His research focuses on robust control theory, with particular emphasis on variable structure systems, nonlinear H-infinity control, non-smooth systems, distributed parameter systems, and their applications in electromechanical systems, robotics, and autonomous vehicles.

Prior to joining IPN full-time, Dr. Aguilar Bustos served as a part-time professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana from 1996 to 2004, where he contributed to undergraduate and graduate education in control engineering before transitioning entirely to research and graduate mentorship at CITEDI-IPN.

Dr. Aguilar Bustos has authored 76 articles in Web of Science-indexed journals, 1 patent, 30 book chapters, and 189 conference papers. Among his 5 co-authored books are two published by Birkhäuser on non-smooth H-infinity control and two-relay control methodology, one published by Springer on type-2 fuzzy logic, and one on quadrotor control published by Alfaomega. To date, he has supervised 13 doctoral and 34 master's students. Since 2016, Dr. Aguilar Bustos has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Automatic Control Society and as a member of the Editorial Board of Elsevier's International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control and Elsevier's Medical Robotics journal.