Mario Ortiz was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1978. He received a degree in industrial engineering in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2016 from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Mechanical Engineering and Energy Department and a member of the Brain–Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain. Mario Ortiz's research activities include mathematical transforms applied to electrical signal processing, neural network applications for signal classification, and brain–machine interfaces.