Luis Alavarez-Icaza received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.Sc. in Control Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a researcher for the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In addition, he is an Emeritus National Researcher (granted by the National Research System—SNII by its acronym in Spanish). His research interests include control theory and modeling, estimation and control of thermo-chemical processes and electro-mechanical systems, and complex system modeling.