MIGUEL ROMERO received his M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering, specializing in automatic control and electronics, from the Córdoba University, Spain, in 2003, and his Ph.D. degree in automatic control from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spanish University for Distance Education, UNED), Madrid, Spain, in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Control and Communication Systems Department, UNED. He has developed his research activity working on several research projects, financed in competitive calls, and has published more than thirty research papers in journals, books, and national and international conferences. His research has focused on fractional calculus and predictive control with applications to the automotive sector. He includes among his research interests fractional control, IoT, robotics, and GPU computing to control and simulate systems.