Dr. Miguel G. Villarreal-Cervantes, has been a full-time professor at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) since February 2010. Born in Veracruz, Ver., Mexico, Dr. Villarreal-Cervantes earned his bachelor’s degree with academic excellence in Electronic Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz in 2003. At the same time, he also studied a Technical Career in Computer Systems from 1998 to 2000 at the Centro de Computación Profesional de Golfo S. C. Moving to México city he attended at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN) and earned his master and doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and 2010, respectively. In 2010, he was working as a full-time professor in the Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (UPIITA-IPN) and one year later he was moved to a Research Center "Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Cómputo" of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CIDETEC-IPN) in which is currently working. His research interests include mechatronic design based on optimization (mono and multi-objective optimization), bio-inspired metaheuristics in the optimal mechatronic design, optimal tuning for the mechatronic system control based on metaheuristic algorithms (off-line and on-line strategies)​ and robotics. He has published over 50 articles in journals and conference proceedings.