Jesús D. Avilés was born in Mexico. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Automatic Control from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), ESIME Ticomán, in Mexico City. Since August 2016, he has been a Professor with the Department of Mechatronic Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Tecate, Mexico. His research interests include interval observers and control design, fault detection and isolation, and time-delay systems, as well as applications of automation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI)..