Victor Santibañez received the B.E. and M.Sc. degrees in electronic engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, and the Ph.D. degree from Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE-Mexico), in 1977, 1984, and 1997, respectively. He has coauthored two books on robot control: Control of Robot Manipulators (in Spanish, Prentice Hall, 2003) and Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space (Springer, 2005). He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico. His research interests are robot control, nonlinear systems control, fuzzy control and adaptive control.