H. Daniel Patiño was born in San Juan, Argentina. He received the electronic engineering degree and doctorate degree in engineering from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ), Argentina, in 1986 and 1995, respectively. He is an associate professor in the Instituto de Automática and the Electronics and Automatics Department, Faculty of Engineering, UNSJ. From 2001 to 2003, he was also Secretary of Research in this faculty. From 1987 to 1993, he was a fellowship holder of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina. From 1997 to 1998, he was a post-doctoral research associate and taught in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. Since 2003, he has been in charge of the coordination of the Strategic Program of Information Technology and Communications (ITC) of the Secretary of Science, Technology and Production Innovation of Argentina.