David Cárdenas-Peña received a Bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering, an M.Eng. degree in industrial automation, and a Ph.D. in automatics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales-Colombia, in 2008, 2011, and 2016, respectively. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira in the electric engineering program. He is also a researcher in the Automatics Research Group on machine learning and signal and image processing topics.