Hiram Ponce (Full Professor) holds a B.Sc. in Mechatronics, an M.Sc. in Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. He is a research professor and the Ph.D. Coordinator in Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico. He has authored more than 120 international journal and conference publications, 8 book chapters, and 4 books in artificial intelligence and robotics. He is a member of the National System of Researchers rank level 1 of the National Council of Science and Technology (Mexico). He is an executive board member of the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence, member of the Technical Committee on Neural Networks in IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, member of the Technical Committee on Robotics and Mechatronics in IFToMM, among others. He was awarded with a Google Research Award for Latin America in 2017. He has served as guest editor in different Special Issues of reputed journals. He is currently Associate Editor of IEEE Access.