Leonel Paredes-Madrid was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1985. He received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela, in 2007 and his Ph.D. in system engineering and automation from Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, in 2014. He has been a research assistant in the Centre for Automation and Robotics CSIC, Madrid, Spain and in Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. He is currently a full-time professor at Universidad Católica de Colombia since 2021. His research interests are instrumentation and control of autonomous systems.