Emilio J. Gonzalez-Galvan received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1990 and 1991, respectively. From 1991 to 1996, he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, IN, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering in 1995. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the same university in 1996. In that year, he joined the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi (UASLP) in Mexico. From 2003 to 2005, he was appointed president of the Mexican Robotics Association. From 2007 to 2008, he was a visiting scholar at MIT. From 2012 to 2020, he was appointed as the Academic Secretary at the College of Engineering at UASLP, and in 2020, he was elected as the director of this academic institution.