Prof. Dr. Rene J. Romero-Troncoso is a Full Professor at the Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico. He completed his Ph.D. studies in Mechatronics at the Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico, in 2004, and has been awarded the 2005 IEEE ReConFig Award for his work in digital systems in 2005. He is a National Researcher level 3 with the Mexican Council of Science and Technology, CONACYT, and a Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Engineering. He has published 2 books on digital systems (in Spanish), and he is a co-author of more than 170 technical papers published in international journals and conferences. His areas of interest include hardware signal processing with FPGA and monitoring and diagnosis of dynamic systems.