Dr. Adriana Ruiz Silva is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Sonora (UNISON), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses across several academic programs.

She earned her B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Sonora in 2011. She subsequently obtained both her M.Sc. (2014) and Ph.D. (2019) in Control and Dynamical Systems from the Division of Applied Mathematics at the Potosino Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IPICYT). She is a Level I member of Mexico's National System of Researchers and Researcher (SNII) of the Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI).

Her research focuses on bio-inspired dynamical systems and complex networks, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches that connect mathematics, nonlinear dynamics, and real-world applications. Her work also explores scientific collaboration networks and synchronization phenomena in complex systems.

Beyond her research, Dr. Ruiz Silva is actively engaged in promoting the participation of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Through outreach activities, mentoring, and academic initiatives, she seeks to inspire new generations to challenge gender stereotypes and strengthen the presence of women in scientific and technological fields.

She is a member of the Mexican Mathematical Society (SMM) and an active member of the Mexican Association of Dynamical Systems and Complexity (AMESDYC). She also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Dynamical Systems and Complexity.

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.

Guillermo Huerta Cuellar is a Physics Engineer of the Faculty of Sciences (2002) and Master in Applied Sciences degree from the Instituto de Investigación en Comunicaciones Ópticas (IICO) at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, in 2004. Afterward, he received a Ph.D. degree from Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica (CIO), León, Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2009. Since 2010, he has been working as a full-time professor at the Exact Sciences and Technology Department in Centro Universitario de los Lagos, Universidad de Guadalajara. He has been Visiting Researcher in the department of Applied Mathematics at Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, San Luis Potosí, México (2012-2014, 2019-2020), in Department of Theory of Oscillations and Automatic Control, Faculty of Radiophysics, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (2016), and a sabbatical stay in the Department of Physics and Environmental Science at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, US (2018-2019). 

He has edited 3 books and 7 works published in book chapters, international journals, and conferences, and more than 70 high-impact publications. He is a member of the National System for Researches level 3. He participates as an Academic Editor in different highimpact journals. He has participated as a reviewer in high-impact-factor journals. His research interests include the study, characterization, dynamical behavior, and design of nonlinear dynamical systems as lasers, electronics, and numerical models. Since 2019, he has been one of the organizers of the Meeting for the Dissemination and Research in the Study of Complex Systems and their Applications (EDIESCA, for its meaning in Spanish). 

In 2023, he, with other Mexican researchers, founded the Mexican Association of Dynamical Systems and Complexity. In July of 2025, he and other researchers launched the Journal of Dynamical Systems and Complexity.