Riemann Ruiz-Cruz was born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1983. He earned the BSEE from Instituto Tecnologico de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006 and the MSEE and D. Sc. on EE from the Advanced Studies and Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN), Guadalajara campus, Mexico, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Since August 2013, he has been with Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He is a member of the research group in the Research Laboratory on Optimal Design, Devices and Advanced Materials (OPTIMA) of the Department of Mathematics and Physics, ITESO. He is also a member of the IEEE and the Mexican National Research System (Rank 1). His research interests include neural control, block control, inverse optimal control, discrete-time sliding modes, and their applications to electrical machines and power systems. Additionally, he has worked on data analysis projects with machine learning.