Dr. Leonardo Palacios-Luengas received his B.S. in Communications and Electronics Engineering (2002), an M.Sc. in Microelectronics Engineering (2012), and a Ph.D. in Communications and Electronics (2016) from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), he joined the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa campus (UAM-I), where he is currently a full-time Associate Professor and Researcher. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI, Level 1) for the 2026–2030 period. Dr. Palacios-Luengas has published over 20 research papers in indexed international journals and holds 3 granted patents. Since 2017, he has managed several research projects and advised numerous undergraduate and master's theses. His primary research interests include cryptography, information security, digital electronic design, embedded systems, steganography, and information dispersal algorithms based on linear codes.